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UMB and UMCP Celebrate First Year of Collaborative Success |
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
President Jay A. Perman, (left)
and University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP)
President Wallace D. Loh,
celebrate the first year of the University of Maryland: MPowering the
State collaboration.
One year ago, the Board of Regents of the
University System of Maryland (USM), with guidance from the Maryland
General Assembly, charted this bold new course, using the resources of
the two universities to better serve students, attract more exceptional
faculty and researchers, and boost research, technology transfer and
commercialization.
"Maryland has tremendous competitive advantages in research and
education," says USM Chancellor
William Kirwan, PhD. "In just one year, MPowering the
State is already producing significant results, creating new business
partnerships and jobs."
A core mission of MPowering the State is better commercializing the
more than one billion dollars in grant-based research conducted by the
two universities. "We launched UM Ventures because it positions
us to strengthen our technology transfer efforts and commercialization
statewide," says President Wallace Loh, PhD. "A fully coordinated
innovation ecosystem and unified technology transfer improves our
ability to work with industry and bring innovative products to the
market."
MPowering the State is also providing new educational opportunities for Maryland students, including the creation of a collaborative school of public health, which will build upon the strengths of the existing School of Public Health in College Park and the epidemiology and public health program in the School of Medicine in Baltimore. "Students have greatly improved opportunities to take
advantage of the complementary strengths of both campuses," says UMB
President Jay Perman, MD. And they'll be better equipped to take their place in the high quality, increasingly complex health care system of Maryland's future."
Other accomplishments of MPowering the State's first year include:
- Creating a new center for health-related informatics and imaging, combining the advanced computing resources of UMCP with the clinical data and biomedical expertise of UMB;
- Creating the Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI), leveraging the health sciences work of UMB and the engineering expertise of UMCP;
- Implementing a seed grant program, resulting in more than $6 million in joint research awards;
- Combining the research efforts at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research'a joint UMB-UMCP institute--and those at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG) in Montgomery County with new educational programs in health, law, human services and the sciences; and
- Working together with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on the Institute for a Healthiest Maryland (IHM) to improve wellness in areas such as obesity and tobacco prevention.
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The University of Maryland: MPowering the State brings together two
universities of distinction to form a new collaborative
partnership. Harnessing the resources of each, the University of
Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore will
focus the collective expertise on critical state-wide issues of public
health, biomedical informatics, and bioengineering. This collaboration
will drive an even greater impact on the state, its economy, the job
market, and the next generation of innovators. The joint
initiatives will have a profound effect on productivity, the economy,
and the very fabric of higher education.
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| Posting Date: 03/28/2013 |
| Contact Name: Alex Likowski |
| Contact Phone: 410-706-3801 |
| Contact Email: alikowski@umaryland.edu |
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