The Physiology Department has four main research focus areas:

• Urology,
• Neurophysiology,
• Renal physiology and pathophysiology
• Cancer Molecular Biology/Physiology of gastrointestinal and reproductive systems.  

Within these areas are research sub-groups focused on specific disease processes and physiologic concepts. Individual researchers within the Department maintain strong collaborative research links locally, nationally and internationally with both basic scientists and clinicians:

• Department of Biology, The University the Western Ontario, Canada, (prof. Greg Kelly);
• Division of Neuroanatomy, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, (prof. Lars Klimaschewski);
• Institute for Biomedicine, The Water and Salt Research Center, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark (prof. dr. med. Soren Nielsen);
• Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, UWM in Olsztyn, (prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Kostyra);
• Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology UWM in Olsztyn (dr hab. n. wet. Mariusz Skowronski)
• Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology UWM in Olsztyn (prof. dr hab. Bożena Szafrańska, dr inż. Grzegorz Panasiewicz)
• Department of Gynecology and Obstetricis, Faculty of Medical Sciences UWM in   Olsztyn, ( Maciej Eliszewski, MD)
• Department of Human Histology and Embriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences UWM in   Olsztyn, (prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Kmieć,  Janusz Godlewski MD, PhD);
• Department of Urology, Medical University in Warsaw (prof. dr hab. Piotr Radziszewski)
• Department of Public health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences UWM in   Olsztyn, (Leszek Frąckowiak MD, PhD)
• Nephrology, Hypertensiology and Internal Medicine Clinic, Faculty of Medical Sciences UWM in  Olsztyn (dr hab. n. med. Tomasz Stompór, prof. UWM)
• Zakład Fotochemii i Spektroskopii, Instytut Chemii Fizycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Warszawie (dr Hubert Piwoński).