Center for Bioengineering and Informatics
The mission of the Center for Bioengineering and Informatics (CBI) at Methodist is to engineer better medicine and tools for biological research and to advance health and biomedical informatics. In doing this, we hope to be a global leader in discovering and creating innovations in drug repositioning and combinations, methods for imaging and probing the body and the brain, devices supporting cellular and molecular diagnostic and therapeutic intervention, and informatics solutions for disease detection, diagnosis, modeling, and prediction. We believe that the fusion of engineering, informatics, and imaging hold the key to translate scientific research effectively and quickly from the laboratory bench to the patient bedside.
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Publications View select listing of recent publications, journal articles and conference papers. |
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Software Releases ZFIQ software kit, NeuronIQ, NeuriteIQ, DCellIQ, GCellIQ and AxonTracker software are available now. |
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About the Director Stephen Wong, Ph.D, PE, named director of the bioengineering & informatics program at Methodist. |
The research focus of the CBI includes:
- The development of new methods and tools to identify biomarker motifs and drug leads for combating neurological disorders, cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
- The development of next generation devices and instrumentation for on-the-spot diagnosis and molecular image-guided therapy.
Our interdisciplinary, disease-oriented approach includes the design and integration of multimodal, multiscale imaging techniques, high dimensional biotechnologies, agile medical devices, systems biology and computational methods to quickly and efficiently acquire, analyze, and digest large volumes of heterogeneous biomedical data and information to enable prediction, prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment in many areas of human disease. This represents a profound shift in the practice of medicine and the improved quality of life for patients.
The CBI is part of the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.
