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Improvements in joint appointments, managing joint grants, and providing shared library and recreation resources across institutions have been developed.

A new seed grant program in complex therapeutics is growing out of the two universities’ successful seed grant program in basic and translational research. The seed grant program has resulted in more than $6 million in joint research awards.

One of the most exciting parts of the joint venture is developing new educational offerings where, for instance, UMCP undergraduates are doing research with top UMB faculty and UMB graduate students are training in the labs of top UMCP faculty.

The new center provides the foundation for research faculty in computer science at UMCP and researchers with expertise in genomics and clinical medicine at UMB and the University of Maryland Medical Center to collaborate on understanding diseases.

The creation of the Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) is strengthening a rich collaborative relationship between UMCP engineering and UMB health sciences.

The Offices of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at UMCP and UMB have joined together to form UM Ventures, which provides unified licensing and patenting services and joint mar­keting to the business community to increase efficiency and productivity.

Accreditation is being sought for a school that combines College Park’s Master of Public Health Program (MPH) in its School of Public Health with UMB’s MPH Program at the School of Medicine.

At the Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Md., UMB is combining its research interests in health, law, and human services with UMCP’s science, technology, engineering, math, business, and social sciences programs.