The research groups affiliated with the Department are active in several related areas such as Molecular Oncology, Viral Oncology, Oncoimmunology, Regenerative Medicine, Molecular Genetics, Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, Clinical and Molecular biology of diabetes and of bone and water-salt metabolism disorders, Clinical and Molecular Biology in Neuroendocrinology and Cardiovascular Endocrinology, Clinical and Molecular Andrology, Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Nutritional Science and the Clinical and Molecular aspects of the adipose organ, epigenomics, the study of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and of infection and immunity, Neurophysiology, Platelet pathophysiology, and Psychoneuroimmunology.