UMBI strives to build lasting relationships with the biosciences industry in Maryland and beyond. With brand new state-of-the-art core facilities in Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), structural biology, genomics and proteomics, insect transformation, and plant transformation, UMBI at Shady Grove offers a unique mix of today's most important technologies all under one roof. These facilities offer exciting prospects for research collaborations with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with mutual interests.

In addition to the new core facilities offered by UMBI, there is a great deal of promising basic and translational research available for licensing as well as numerous opportunities for members of industry to contribute to bioscience education at the K-12 level as well as workforce development. UMBI is committed to forging a united biotech community that bridges the private and public sectors through creating strong partnerships and enduring biotechnology solutions to many of science's most vexing questions.