State Fair Historical Artifacts Exhibit

Maryland is a life sciences hub with over 350 biotechnology firms, making it the third-largest such cluster in the nation.[10] Institutions and agencies located throughout Maryland include the University System of Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Celera Genomics, Human Genome Sciences (HGS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).