The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has encouraged a culture of entrepreneurship, UMB President Jay A. Perman, MD, said in remarks at the 2015 Maryland Regional BioTech Forum. Perman appeared with three other university presidents on a panel, “How Academia Can Help Drive our Region’s Biotech Cluster.” The theme of the forum, “Growing Our Ecosystem,” referred to ways that corporate, governmental and academic partners can collectively make the region a leading hub of groundbreaking science and technology.