November 22, 2023

In October, President Joe Biden and the Economic Development Administration announced the greater Baltimore region’s selection as one of 31 federal Tech Hubs, a designation that could bring hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the area as part of a national program to make the country globally competitive in emerging technologies. The Baltimore region’s hub will focus on artificial intelligence and biotechnology, with a focus on predictive technologies — a tech subset with the potential to improve health outcomes individually and systemically. With a longstanding commitment to collaboration and partnership with the global life sciences industry, the UMB conducted over $63 million in corporate-sponsored research in Fiscal Year 2022 and works with more than 300 bioscience and pharmaceutical firms. 

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Depicted: Members of the Greater Baltimore Committee Consortium, including James L. Hughes, chief enterprise and economic development officer and senior vice president at UMB (back left, third in)