Groups in the research area Molecular Genetics and Orphan Diseases focus their research on:
- Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases (Bittner/Schmidt),
- the Development of Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Orphan Diseases (Lucas),
- on human RNA Processing Enzymes and their Involvement in Disease (Rossmanith),
- the molecular processes resulting in particular Protein Aggregate Myopathies (Winter)