From 1998 to the beginning of 2010, the following six research groups carried out research within the research foci of the centre:

• NWG1/98 - Apoptosis and cell death
  Group leader - Jochen Prehn
  Funding period: 1/1998 - 12/2002
   
• FG2/01 - Hemisphere specialisation in language
  Group leader - Stefan Knecht
  Funding period: 6/2001 - 05/2006
   
• FG3/03 - Molecular imaging in tumor diagnostics
  Group leader - Christoph Bremer
  Funding period: 7/2003 - 06/2008
   
• FG4/03 - Neurobiology of learning and pathophysiology of impaired learning in affective and psychotic disorders
  Group leader - Almuth Engelien
  Funding period: 8/2003 - 11/2005
  Group leader - Carsten Konrad
  Funding period: 4/2006 - 07/2009
   
• FG5/03 -Transcriptional regulation of CREM alpha and its effect on target gene expression in immune cells
  Group leader - Klaus Tenbrock
  Funding period: 7/2003 - 06/2008
   
• FG6/08 - Intracellular calcium dynamics
  Group leader - Christian Lohr
  Funding period: 4/2008 - 03/2010