President Hrabowski speaks at Maryland Biotech Forum

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:47:11 -0400
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The Maryland Regional Biotech Forum was held at the MedImmune campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland on March 30 and 31. The event brought together representatives from government, industry, and academia to discuss how we can better coordinate our region's strengths to create more jobs, increase economic strength, and generate life-saving innovations in the biotech industry.

President Hrabowski spoke on the panel, “How Academia Can Help Drive our Region’s Biotech Cluster,” alongside Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels, University of Maryland, Baltimore President Jay Perman, and Virginia Commonwealth University President Michael Rao. Pascal Soriot, CEO of MedImmune’s parent company, AstraZeneca, gave a keynote speech addressing the importance of our region to growing companies.

The forum was also sponsored by BioHealth Innovation and the Tech Council of Maryland.