There are four main areas of research at the Sao Paulo Branch:
Molecular Biology and Genomics, Cell and Molecular Biology, Computational Biology and Virology.

The Branch Groups worked with, and as part of, research and educational programs established with the Hospital do Câncer. And, as of late 2007, began a partnership with the Hospital Alemao Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC), that will surely yield new and interesting research programs.