CAMBIA is an independent, international non-profit institute. For more than a decade, CAMBIA has been creating new technologies, tools and paradigms to foster collaboration and life-sciences enabled innovation.  These tools are  designed to enable  disadvantaged communities and developing countries to meet their own challenges in food security, health, and natural resource management.

In Spanish and Italian, CAMBIA means "change". This meaning is at the very heart of CAMBIA's mission.  We achieve our aims through four interconnected work products outlined below:

Patent Lens

Patents were intended to foster innovation, but they can also form a barrier to innovation.  The Patent Lens provides an integrated informatics platform of worldwide patent data with tools to make patents and patent landscapes more transparent, to explore paths leading to freedom to (co)operate.

BiOS (Biological Open Source) Initiative

The BiOS Framework communicates and advocates for the development and sharing of life sciences technology through its BiOS licenses, an open source form of collaborative agreement suitable for patented technology.

BioForge

BioForge is a prototype portal to a dynamic protected commons of enabling technologies, available to everyone who agrees to maintain them available to share for improvement and to use in new innovations, whether for research, commercial use, or humanitarian use.

CAMBIA's Materials

At CAMBIA we have designed, developed and delivered molecular enabling technologies with a focus on their use by disadvantaged communities, for example in international agriculture and public health.