The Region

At the mid-point of the East Coast Bioscience Corridor

The BioPark’s strategic location ideally positions its tenants for growth. Situated in the midst of Maryland’s significant regional bioscience cluster, the BioPark is also at the mid-point of what is arguably the world’s largest bioscience corridor stretching from Boston to North Carolina.

There are more than 40 life science research-intensive federal institutions within an hour’s drive of the BioPark including the:

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
• National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

And prestigious academic research institutions:

• The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital
• Research Institutions of the University of Maryland System:
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • University of Maryland College Park

A dynamic private sector of more than 400 biotech companies:

Publicly traded companies

BioPark companies:

An exceptional workforce of 34,000 private sector bioscience employees, and a comparable number in university and federal research institutions;

• Ranked first among states (24 pecent) in percentage of professional and technical workers
• Ranked second in concentration of doctoral scientists and engineers including first in health sciences and second in biosciences

And a central, mid-Atlantic location.

• Easily accessible by air, car and train
• Lower cost of living than other major East Coast metropolitan areas