The University of Maryland, Baltimore was founded in 1807 as the first public medical school in the United States. The urban campus includes the University of Maryland Medical Center, the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the world’s first Shock Trauma Center, and the Institutes for Genome Sciences and Human Virology, along with numerous related public and private sector healthcare and medical uses. The State of Maryland has a workforce of 34,000 private sector bioscience employees. There are more than 40 life science research-intensive federal institutions within an hour’s drive of the BioPark.