Undergraduate teaching is characterised by practical, interdisciplinary and future-oriented teaching. Intensive supervision in small learning groups offers optimal development opportunities and a pleasant learning environment. In addition to subject-specific knowledge, career preparation modules also teach project management, communication, scientific work or medical ethics. Students' career prospects are improved by their integration into current research at an early stage and through the transfer of methods from research to teaching.

The department also bundles its activities under the university motto "Closely connected worldwide". The friendly teaching and learning atmosphere promotes academic, cultural and personal exchange. Molecular and Technical Medicine can already be studied bilingually (English) – this will also be possible in Applied Biology from the 25/26 winter semester onward. Programmes such as "HFU.Prep" support applicants from outside Germany in improving their German language skills in a preparatory semester so that they can complete a degree course in German.

Various excellently equipped teaching and research laboratories as well as student workspaces with state-of-the-art technology, such as: MALDI-TOF, FT-IR, sequencer, qPCR, UPLC, HPLC, GC-MS, etc. are available for research work and to those who have undergone instruction, as are subject-specific databases, e.g. OMEX. 5 x (bio-)chemistry, analysis laboratories (65 workspaces); 4 x S1 laboratories: Molecular biology, microbiology and cell biology (total 60 AP); 2x S2 laboratories: Biomedicine (24 workspaces); Technical centre laboratories (25 workspaces); Teaching distillery (12 workspaces); Cardiotechnology laboratory (10 workspaces); Project laboratories (10 doctoral positions)

The department has three research institutes: Institute of Applied Biology, Institute of Precision Medicine and Institute of Technical Medicine. Research topics include: Human microbiome in disease and health, metabolomics, sustainable bioprocesses (use of residual and waste materials; Model-assisted experimental planning and adaptive process control strategies), CarbonCapture: CO2 binding to peptides, natural substances as new antibiotics, reduction/replacement of animal experiments with in vitro cell models, biomolecular interactions in active substances

The department is intensively involved in research into sustainable technologies, environmentally friendly biomaterials and products as well as resource-saving processes. The integration of sustainability into teaching (applied environmental protection, biogenic raw materials, etc.) as well as the transfer into professional practice promote sustainable values in addition to knowledge transfer. In the use of laboratories, consumables and teaching content, resource consumption is minimised and, where possible, environmentally friendly (reusable) materials are used and intelligent test concepts designed.