Montgomery County Officials Tour UMBI Shady Grove Facility

Rockville, MD- Montgomery County General Assembly delegation members were given a special tour of UMBI's new 140,000 gross square foot expansion at Shady Grove. Officials were shown the state-of-the-art facilities still under construction; including the GMP training and biomanufacturing program, insect and plant transformation cores, the microarray core facility and the W.M. Keck structural biology suite. UMBI's Shady Grove expansion project will be completed in 2006.

   
(from left to right: Dr. Edward Eisenstein, Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology [CARB], Delegate Richard Madaleno, Delegate Charles Barkley, Senator Patrick J. Hogan, CARB Assistant Professor Dr. Harold Smith, Senator Jennie Forehand, Associate Professor at the Center for Biosystems Research, Dr. David O'Brochta, Montgomery County Councilman Michael Knapp, and UMBI President, Dr. Jennie Hunter-Cevera pose for a picture. In the foreground is a model of the new building.)

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Celebrating our 20th anniversary year, UMBI is Maryland's premier biotechnology research institute within the University System of Maryland and was established in 1985. The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) consists of five major research and education centers and is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. UMBI’s centers of research include: CARB, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology located in Rockville; CBR, the Center for Biosystems Research located in College Park; and COMB, the Center of Marine Biotechnology, MBC, the Medical Biotechnology Center, and IHV, the Institute of Human Virology, all located in Baltimore. For more information, visit www.umbi.umd.edu