Science + Technology Park
at Johns Hopkins
855 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205
Many industry-leading life science companies are located near the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins.
Medical devices and instruments, drugs and drug technology, hospitals and laboratories, research and testing are all highly concentrated in the region. The State of Maryland includes more than 350 commercial biotech companies - many of which are at the forefront of genomic and technological research.
The greater Baltimore/Washington DC metropolitan area attracted the attention of the bioscience industry nationally because of its high education attainment levels and the strength of its research institutions. In January 2006, in a State of the Region Study comparing Baltimore to 20 other regions in the country, Baltimore was ranked #1 for academic research and development spending by region (over $1.6 billion in FY 2003).
Prestigious universities like Johns Hopkins University (www.jhu.edu), the University of Maryland at Baltimore (www.umaryland.edu), the University of Maryland at College Park (www.umd.edu), Georgetown University (www.georgetown.edu), George Washington University (www.gwu.edu), and others are at the forefront of life science research, advanced education, and training. More than 183,000 full-time-equivalent students attend the colleges and universities in the Baltimore/Washington region, and they help produce some of the brightest and most talented minds in the nation.
