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The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute’s plannedr fifth center focusing on agriculture was highlightedin Gov. Martin O’Malley’d initial plan to grow the state’s $29 billion life science s industry. But it was absent from his more detailee Bio2020 plan, unveiled nearly one year latedr May 20. And UMBI’s partnership with two universities to developo herbal medicines from plants isalso unclear. The Appalachianj Center for Ethnobotanical Studies hasreceivec $500,000 in funding so far. UMBI had expectedf to develop a physical center to house theprogram ­— now a virtuao center — in 2014.
The questionh over the future programsa arises as university officialdsreview UMBI’s future. They are contemplatint merging it with another UM systemschoolp — or schools — by carvinvg up UMBI’s four research centers and merging them with another A select group of regents is reviewing proposale and will make a decision June 19. When askedx about the proposed fifth UMBI center on theEasternj Shore, O’Malley deferred questions to Lawrence C. senior strategy advisor for the state’sz life sciences advisory board.
Mahan said the state’s life sciencw advisory board leaves it up to theUM system’s board of regents to decide whether the UMBI Center for Agriculturall and Environmental Biotechnology should move forward. USM officialz said they will only consider whether to move forwarf with the agricultural center after USM regents decid e what to do with the existinyUMBI centers, said Patrick J. Hogan, USM’as associate vice chancellor for government The center, which would focu on growing crop production among other things, has not received any statwe funding.
The center would keep farming “alive and well” on the Eastern Shorew and help ensure thestate doesn’ft lose more farmland to development, UMBI’as outgoing President Jennie Hunter-Cevera said. USM leadersx will consider what to do with the Appalachian Center duringg itsreview process, Hogan The center’s researchers analyze how plantslike ginseng found in Western Maryland could be used in herbal Hunter-Cevera said she had hoped the partnership woulc one day tap the $5 billion herbalo medicine market.