CiBER Invents technology solutions matched to emerging disease patterns and pandemic threats worldwide and provides labour-saving smart tools to reduce the burdens of aging on seniors and their caregivers CiBER Creates suitable technology for a generation of consumer products sustaining lifetime health and wellness and develops new systems and tools to support fewer doctors and nurses caring for growing patient populations.

CiBER is International recognition for bringing practical engineering innovation to everyday healthcare and medicine. CiBER Trains the next generation of globally-aware cross-disciplinary biomedical engineers for and beyond Canada.

CiBER Makes a measurable difference — in health, in bioengineering, in research, in education, in this century.

The mission of CiBER is to integrate research in microelectronics, biosensors, wireless communications and related technologies with challenging applications in medicine, human health, and environment.

Global contagion, chronic disability, advanced aging, musculoskeletal degeneration, diabetes, childhood obesity, cardiorespiratory disorders, cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer’s dementia, cancer, HIV/ AIDS, perinatal/infant mortality, neuropsychiatric impairments, and war injuries will all dramatically increase this coming decade — undefeated by the best most expensive medical systems today.

Healthcare must fundamentally realign along managing chronic widespread disease in non-hospital settings, offering cost-effective proactive preventative and predictive care to supplant our traditional emphasis on expensive reactive post-event acute medicine.

Successful realignment critically depends on bioengineering innovation to create new tools for low-cost disease screening, rapid clinical diagnosis, minimally invasive therapies, and public health surveillance to control the crippling cost of healthcare facing our next generation with the Baby Boomer tsunami.

Our most promising healthcare technologies are exponentially smaller, cheaper, easier, smarter and far more powerful than any before in history. Microelectronics, MEMS, wireless communication, biosensors, embedded computing, biophotonics and optoelectronics exemplify our research interests in CiBER laboratories.

Rapid advance will require unprecedented multidisciplinary cooperation and integration between medicine, biology, and engineering, reaching across individual patient care to broad global health initiatives. Seamless communications can harmonize the quality of care between rural and urban, while low cost design makes effective medical technology affordable for developing countries.