Discover -- Outstanding Research

The University of Maryland, Baltimore is commercializing breakthrough therapies, diagnostics and devices, fueling the creation of innovative start-up companies and attracting industry leaders and entrepreneurs to its thriving downtown campus.

Founded in 1807, UMB is a fast-growing biomedical research center with nationally ranked professional schools of dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and social work.  More than 120 of the world’s leading bioscience and pharmaceutical companies conduct 250 clinical trials and research projects each year at UMB.

The Campus 

• Urban campus set amidst a flourishing downtown Baltimore redevelopment district
• $600 million in completed construction projects over 10 years; campus acreage has doubled in size from 32 to 60 acres
• Sharing the campus are the University of Maryland Medical Center, the world's first Shock Trauma Center, the Institute of Human Virology, and the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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Research

• $380 million sponsored biomedical research in 2006 - doubled over five years
• Fifth among public medical schools for research grant expenditures per faculty member
• $35 million in active industry-sponsored projects with more than 100 biotech and pharmaceutical companies
• Over 1,500 research faculty and clinicians available for research collaborations.
• The Office of Research and Development offers UMB technologies available for licensing. 
• Core strengths:
• • Biodefense
  • Cancer
  • Clinical Trials
  • Drug Development
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Nano Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Pain
  • Regenerative Medicine
  • Vaccine Development
  • Vascular Biology

Click here for pdf of UMB's Research Centers of Excellence

Nationally-ranked professional schools and interdisciplinary graduate school:

• Dentistry, founded in 1840; oldest dental school in the nation
• Law
• Medicine, fifth oldest medical school in the U.S. and first to establish a residency training program
• Nursing 
• Pharmacy
• Social Work
• 5,500 students enrolled
• Awards 61 percent of all first professional degrees in Maryland - dental, law, medicine and pharmacy

Funding Resources

Grant funding opportunities are available for companies commercializing UMB technologies or collaborating with UMB researchers.

• Small Business Innovative Research grants (SBIR)
• Small Business Technology Transfer Research grants (STTR)
• Maryland Industrial Partnership grants (MIPS)
• TEDCO University Technology Development Fund grants (UTDF)