The faculty was founded in 1967 and admits students in BSc, MSc and PhD programs in four departments which are as follows:

• Animal, Marine and Aquatic Biology and Biotechnology

This department builds on a strong foundation of successful research and educational programs and is dedicated to the exploration of the novel and diverse resources in both animal kingdom and marine biology through performing advanced research programs. This department comprises the following sections: biosystematics, evolution, and physiology. Beside the present focus of the department which is on marine biomedicine and marine drug discovery, a highly valuable and diverse research is being conducted on reproductive physiology, measurement and performance of hormones and metabolic pathways, physiology of the heart and nerves, stroke pathophysiology, molecular and cellular mechanisms, and management of angiogenesis in cancer cells. Similarly, a highly advanced molecular phylogeny and molecular systematic investigations are in hand.

 • Plant Sciences and Biotechnology

 Department of Plant Sciences and Biotechnology is active at the graduate and post-graduate levels. This department carries out extensive and diverse research projects in molecular ecology, molecular phylogeny, plant population genetics, DNA barcoding of medicinal and agronomic plants, molecular physiology of economically important crop plants, applied molecular algal and mycological studies, as well as different biotechnological aspects of important crop plants.

• Cell and Molecular Biology

 The department offers internationally recognized programs for undergraduate and graduate training with broad aspects in biochemistry, cellular and molecular genetics. Research interests within the department are diverse and include the study of the molecular origins of cancer and infectious disease, vaccine development, the roles of microorganisms in nutrient cycling and metabolism, and the genetic modification of switch grasses for biofuel production, cytogenetic and molecular investigation of ethnic populations as well as association studies of biomarkers and human diseases, including cancer, infertility. Moreover, an extensive research is based on stem cell studies.

• Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology

The Department of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology began its scientific cooperation in the international students exchange project known as Global Approach by Modular Experiments (GAME), headquartered in the IFM-GEOMAR Institute, Germany, in 2000. The GAME project has been registered in the universities of more than ten countries. In addition to carrying out the usual research activities, the faculty members have succeeded in recording the invention in aquaculture biotechnology and drug delivery technology for the treatment of fish diseases. Extensive research projects are concerned with medicinal and industrial microbiology, which are mainly concerned with microbial-based human diseases as well as petroleum and food industrial sections.