One of the biggest challenges of aquaculture is to produce healthy and robust fish in a sustainable way. Description of novel diseases and pathogens, development of health management solutions, prevention and treatment methods are the main research priorities of the Institute in this field. The Institute has state-of-the-art research facilities in Athens and in Crete with fully equipped laboratories that can provide advanced diagnostic services ranging from basic microbiology to next generation -omics technologies.

The Aquaculture Microbiology Laboratory curates a large biobank of fully characterized bacterial pathogens from the Greek aquaculture industry. Moreover, it has established a strong and prolonged collaboration with Greek and foreign fish and feed production companies.