The Institute draws together a number of Centres and specialist research groupings including:
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials
- Centre for Computational Molecular Science
- Centre for High Performance Polymers
- Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
- Centre for Biomolecular Engineering
- Centre for Nanotechnology and Biomaterials
- Centre for Research in Vascular Biology
- NanoMac
- Nanomics Biosystems Pty Ltd
- Protein Expression Facility


