Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen Proving Ground is an Army test, evaluation, research, development, engineering, and training installation. (www.apg.army.mil)

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
AFIP is a tri-service agency of the Department of Defense specializing in pathology consultation, education and research. (www.afip.org)

Baltimore Crossroads@95
This site offers unique, development ready sites from 20 to 150 acres in a 1,000 acre wooded business park along I-95, Maryland’s new Route 43 and the Baltimore County waterfront. Johns Hopkins Medical and Bayview Research campuses are just minutes away. (www.co.ba.md.us/Agencies/economicdev/edd_techadvantage.html)

Center of Marine Biotechnology
COMB applies the tools of molecular biology and biotechnology to study, protect and enhance marine resources. (www.umbi.umd.edu/~comb)

Food and Drug Administration
The FDA protects the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. (www.fda.gov)

Institute of Human Virology
Founded by Dr. Robert Gallo, IHV is dedicated to fundamental and clinical research leading to improved treatment and prevention of chronic viral diseases and virally linked cancers, serving patients locally and the scientific community globally. (www.ihv.org)

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Hopkins Medicine has provided international leadership in the education of physicians and medical scientists, in bio medical research, and in the application of medical knowledge to sustain health since 1889. (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)

Johns Hopkins University Licensing and Technology Development (www.ltd.jhu.edu)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Office of Technology Transfer (www.jhsph.edu/TechTransfer/index.html)

JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (www.jhuapl.edu/ott/)

National Security Agency/Central Security Service
NSA is America’s crypto logic organization coordinating, directing, and performing highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information. (www.nsa.gov)

National Institutes of Health
The NIH is part of the U.S. Departmennt of Health and Human Services and is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments and cures for common and rare diseases. (www.nih.gov)

National Institute on Aging (Bayview)
NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. NIA is the primary federal agency researching Alzheimer’s disease.(www.nia.nih.gov)

National Institute on Drug Abuse (Bayview)
NIDA’s leads the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. The NIDA is fully engaged in technology transfer seeking to establish collaborative relationships with the private sector in order to facilitate the transfer of research results into public health advances. (www.nida.nih.gov)

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department’s Technology Administration developing and promoting measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life. (www.nist.gov)

Tech Transfer: patapsco.nist.gov/ts/220/external/about.htm

NASA Goddard Space Center
Goddard is home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth, solar system and the universe.(www.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Tech Transfer: www.techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov

National Science Foundation
NSF is an independent federal agency "promoting the process of science to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare." NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities. (www.nsf.gov)

Tech Transfer: www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind04/c4/c4s3.htm

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
UMBC is a major center for cutting-edge research in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. The campus is home to more than 20 research centers and institutes that sponsor research, teaching and service, as well as a number of offices that provide specialized research support to students and faculty. UMBC’s research centers attract over $89 million in annual funding. (www.umbc.edu)

Office of Technology Development: (www.umbc.edu/otd)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (www.hhmi.umbc.edu)

UMBC Bioinformatics Research Center (www.brc.umbc.edu)

University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
Founded in 1807 as the first public medical school in the nation, UMB is a thriving biomedical research center with nationally ranked professional schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Public Health, Nursing, Law, Social Work and an interdisciplinary graduate school. Nearly 1,200 faculty have conducted $1 billion in research in the last three years in areas including cancer, biodefense, vaccines, neuroscience, vascular biology, and HIV/AIDS.

UMB is home to the prestigious Institute for Human Virology, headed by Dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus; and the new Institute for Genome Sciences headed by preeminent genome scientist and microbiologist, Dr. Claire Fraser-Liggett. (www.umaryland.edu)

Office of Research & Development (www.ord.umaryland.edu)

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
USAMRIID conducts basic and applied research on biological threats resulting in medical solutions to protect military service members and is the lead medical research laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense Research Program. (www.usamriid.army.mil/index.htm)

Tech Transfer: www.usamriid.army.mil/businessopspage.htm

US Department of Agriculture
The USDA provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science. (www.usda.gov)

Tech Transfer: www.nal.usda.gov/ttic

US Naval Research Lab
NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. (www.nrl.navy.mil)

Bio Parks

bwtech@UMBC
bwtech is a 41 acre research and technology park with capacity for five 60,000 sf buildings immediately adjacent to University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s 25 research centers and institutes, including the UMBC Bioinformatics Center and a Howard Hughes laboratory. (www.bwtechumbc.com)

Johns Hopkins Bayview Research Campus
In addition to a full-service, community teaching hospital the Bayview Campus is also home to the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center and the National Institutes of Health’s Institutes on Aging and Drug Abuse. Numerous padsites are available for private and non-profit life science development on this 130 acre, park-like campus. (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)

Science & Technology Park at Johns Hopkins
Immediately adjacent to the main Johns Hopkins medical campus, this newly planned campus presents an opportunity for bioscience research institutions, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, such as high therapeutic, genomic and proteomic analysis, biological testing services, pre-clinical animal models, drug development and clinical trials. (www.scienceparkjohnshopkins.net)

techcenter@UMBC
The 170,000 square foot incubator provides a robust platform and services for the growth of emerging companies. The facility is currently home to 25 bio and technology firms including InVitro Technologies, Cognate Therapeutics, and Profectus BioSciences. (www.umbc.edu/techcenter)

UMB BioPark
For early-stage to mature bioscience companies, the UMB BioPark offers a sophisticated laboratory and office environment on the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s vibrant academic medical center campus. At final build-out the 10-acre BioPark s will boast 1.2 million square feet of lab and office space in ten buildings plus garage parking and landscaped parks. By Fall 2007, 360,000 square feet in two multi-tenant buildings and one garage will be completed. (www.umbbiopark.com)