The Center for Biomedical Inventions (CBI) is a unique technology development unit at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  The mission of the Center is to develop technological solutions to major problems in biomedicine and then to commercialize these discoveries.  This mission is based on the recognition that major advances in basic biomedical and clinical science are often driven by new technologies.

CBI was founded by Stephen Albert Johnston, Thomas Kodadek, Sandy Williams (now Dean at Duke University Medical Center) and Harold “Skip” Garner. Johnston is the Director of CBI. CBI faculty head each project area including major efforts by Kodadek (Chemistry/Proteomics), Garner (Computation/Genomics), Akira Takashima (Immune Regulation), Kathryn Sykes (Molecular Biology/Vaccine Genomics), Kathlynn Brown (Biochemistry/Cell Targeting), Kevin Leubke (Chemistry/Proteomics), Ross Chambers (Molecular Biology/Biosignatures).

Major areas of emphasis within the CBI include:

Proteomics

Array and Imaging Technologies

Cell type-specific recognition and targeting

Vaccinology and Manipulation of the Immune System