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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Biotech / Pharma · Baltimore, MD

Baltimore MD. #1 US medical school. Free tuition for 95% of students from Fall 2024 (Bloomberg $1B gift). $1B+ NIH funding FY2024. Johns Hopkins Hospital — #1 US News 22 consecutive years. Training ground for most influential biomedical researchers globally.

Founded

1893

Region

Greater Baltimore

Investors

People

About Baltimore

Camden Yards, opened 1992, invented the modern "retro-classic" ballpark template -- exposed brick, the old B&O Warehouse standing beyond right field, an urban infill site instead of a suburban parking lot -- that nearly every MLB park built since has copied. The Inner Harbor did something similar for downtown redevelopment a decade earlier, turning a derelict industrial waterfront into a template other Rust Belt cities tried to copy. Johns Hopkins anchors a biotech cluster that rarely gets Boston-or-Bay-Area attention despite real depth, with Towson University rounding out the region's research and talent base alongside homegrown global companies like T. Rowe Price and Under Armour.

Region Stats

Total firms 39

VC / investors 7

Companies 25

Schools 7

Known For

Asset Management

Biotech

Manufacturing