University of Maryland BioPark
(410) 706-8282

A biomedical research park on 10 acres at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.  It offers advanced wet lab and office space for private life sciences companies and specialized university research centers. Once completed, the project will include:   

• Ten buildings containing 1.2 million SF of lab and office space
• Parking garages
• Landscaped parks

Building One, a six-story 120,000 square foot building, opened in 2005 and is fully leased.  Building Two is six stories, 215,000 square feet and was completed in 2007 with space still available.  The multi-tenant building includes conference facilities, space suitable for GMP manufacturing, a fitness center and pre-built wet lab and office suites for early-stage bioscience companies.  

Building Three is proposed for six stories and 180,000 square feet.  Eight greenfield sites, ranging from 80,000 to 100,000 square feet, are also available.  Of them, four sites are pre-zoned for biomedical research buildings.

Current tenants include:

• Alba Therapeutics Corporation
• Biomere
• Gliknik
• Harbor Bank
• IRAZÚ BioDiscovery
• Miles and Stockbridge
• Paragon Bioservices
• SNBL Clinical Pharmacology Center
• Institute for Genome Sciences

Founded in 1807, the University of Maryland, Baltimore is a leader in graduate and professional education in dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and social work.  With $450 million in sponsored research in FY 2008, UMB is ranked 8th among public institutions for research funding.

Together with its clinical partners located on the downtown campus—the University of Maryland Medical Center, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, and the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center—the University provides an ideal environment for training, research, clinical trials and biomedical commercialization.  Areas of research excellence include:

• Biodefense
• Cancer
• Drug development
• Genome science
• HIV / AIDS
• Infectious diseases
• Neuroscience
• Vaccine development
• Vascular biology