The Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health and the Institute of Human Virology are leading the way in the fight against infectious diseases worldwide.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the state’s only health, law, and human services university and features six nationally ranked professional schools—medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and social work—and the interdisciplinary Graduate School. UMB is a leading academic health center, combining cutting-edge biomedical research and exceptional clinical care.

The university attracted a record-setting $687.7 million in grants and contracts in Fiscal Year 2020 and its faculty are among the nation’s most productive researchers. The University of Maryland BioPark, Baltimore’s biggest biotechnology cluster, fuels the commercialization of new drugs, diagnostics, and devices, giving more than 1,000 researchers and entrepreneurs space to create and collaborate.