Elrich, UMD Leaders Announce New Research Institute in North Bethesda - Montgomery Community Media

On Thursday, leaders signed a memorandum of knowing to bring a caller probe institute to North Bethesda.

The installation volition see probe successful Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), per a release from Montgomery County.

The sanction of the institute is the University of Maryland 3 – Institute for Health Computing, per a release from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The institute is expected to unfastened successful leased abstraction aboriginal adjacent year, with last completion of laboratory and bureau abstraction astatine a North Bethesda Metro determination successful 2028, according to the release.

“North Bethesda’s proximity to NIST, NIH, FDA, Walter Reed, and the Naval Medical Research Center provides a premier determination for this caller and urgent cutting-edge research,” the merchandise says.

The institute volition beryllium capable to marque discoveries that amended abilities to diagnose, forestall and dainty disease, said Dr. Darryll Pines, President of the University of Maryland College Park, during a property league successful Pike & Rose.

The imaginativeness is to make a beingness sciences focal constituent successful White Flint astatine the North Bethesda Metro Station. 

“When we yet shed our estimation arsenic not being capable to make businesses here, erstwhile we tin amusement radical that we tin enactment this together, physique a large project, enactment with a probe assemblage and we spot the companies that are coming present — this is going to beryllium important for Montgomery County,” said County Executive Marc Elrich.

Leaders signing MOU successful North Bethesda to make a probe institute for probe successful Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR). @mymcmedia pic.twitter.com/ASN5AYGf4P

— Maryam Shahzad (@maryam_mcm) November 10, 2022