The Programme is comprised of 15 research groups with a highly clinical orientation:
- Addiction, Marta Torrens
- Anxiety, affective disorders and schizophrenia, Antoni Bulbena
- Applied metaolomics, Óscar Pozo
- Behavioral neurobiology, Olga Valverde
- Doping control research group, Rosa Ventura
- Epilepsy, Rodrigo Rocamora
- Genetics , Luís Alberto Pérez Jurado
- Integrative pharmacology and systems neuroscience, Rafael de la Torre
- Mental Health, Victor Pérez & Francesc Colom
- Neurofunctionality and language, Jordi Peña-Casanova
- Neuroimaging of mental disorders, Oscar Vilarroya
- Neuropharmacology, Rafael Maldonado
- Perioperative medicine and pain, Lluís Gallart
- Physiology of cognition and Alzheimer's prevention, Juan Domingo Gispert
A good part of the programme’s research groups are recognised research groups from the Research & Innovation Plan (PRI) of the Catalan Autonomous Government and belong to the CIDEM Technological Innovation Network (IT).