The Tsinghua Institute of Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research (TIMBR) &National Institute of Biological Sciences,Beijing (NIBS) has 32 laboratories, and several major research areas are currently focused on: aging mechanisms and neurodegeneration; pathogenic bacterial, viral, and chlamydial infections and immune mechanisms; molecular neurological mechanisms of animal behaviours; stem cells, development, and genetics; tumourigenesis and therapeutics; synthetic, medicinal, and computational chemistries; protein structures; epigenetics, evolutionary biology, and functional genomics, among others.

Mechanisms of aging and neurodegeneration
pathogenic bacterial, viral and chlamydial infections and immune mechanisms
molecular neural mechanisms of animal behaviour
stem cells, development and genetics
tumourigenesis and therapeutics
synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry & computational chemistry
protein structure
epigenetics, evolutionary biology and functional genomics