About the UM-IHC
The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) is a strategic initiative that aims to improve well-being and quality of life, diminish disease, and enhance health outcomes for all citizens of Maryland and beyond.
The UM-IHC merges top-tier computational expertise and biomedical research with a vast and geographically diverse clinical care network into a force for health care innovation.
Funding support comes from strategic partner Montgomery County, Maryland, and from the state of Maryland’s MPowering the State initiative.
The UM-IHC is co-led by the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
“This new institute will bring together [Montgomery] County’s globally recognized life science community with the universities’ internationally ranked bio-health and quantum computing programs to create the next generation of medicine and care. ”