The K1 Competence Center CBmed (Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine) is settled at Stiftingtalstraße 5 in immediate vicinity to the ZWT. CBmed focuses on the research of biomarkers and contributes to the development of technologies with which diseases can be diagnosed early and thus treated – including cancer, diabetes and heart attacks.

Cooperation partners, among others, are the Medical University of Graz and the ZWT tenants Biobank Graz, BBMRI-ERIC, B. Braun Melsungen, as well as JOANNEUM RESEARCH HEALTH. CBmed is owned by the Medical Universities of Graz and Vienna, the Graz University of Technology, the University of Graz, JOANNEUM RESEARCH and the Austrian Institute of Technology. The managing directors are Thomas Pieber and Robert Fasching.