The core group departments are the departments which currently participate in the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), research projects. The CDT projects provide the majority of the Institute's pre-commercial project portfolio and most of the technology opportunities that the Institute is endeavouring to commercialise.
The core group departments are :
- Biomedical Engineering
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS)
- Mechanical & Aerospace Engineeing
- Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Institute of Photonics
- Centre for Biophotonics
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM)
- Physics
- Psychological Sciences & Health