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title: Edward and Jennifer St. John Give $10M for New Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine
date: 2025-01-10T16:15:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Edward and Jennifer St. John Give $10M for New Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine

*January 10, 2025* — by [Maryland Today Staff](/author/maryland-today-staff)


> Philanthropic Investment to UMCP, UMB to Fuel Innovation, Collaboration, Accelerated Tech Transfer to Improve Human Health

*CTEM Announcement 01102025 SC 9982 — From left, University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean Mark T. Gladwin, UMB Chief Enterprise and Economic Development Officer and Senior Vice President James L. Hughes, UMB President Bruce E. Jarrell, Jennifer and Ed St. John, Edward St. John Foundation President Sharon Akers, UMCP President Darryll J. Pines, Vice President for University Relations Jim Harris and A. James Clark School of Engineering Dean Samuel Graham, Jr. were among the dignitaries attending Friday’s announcement.*

A $10 million gift from Edward and Jennifer St. John and the Edward St. John Foundation to the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) will launch a transformative collaboration to tackle a broad spectrum of health challenges and drive medical innovations that benefit patients in Maryland and beyond.

The Edward & Jennifer St. John Center for Translational Engineering and Medicine announced on Friday will foster face-to-face partnerships among clinicians and engineers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) at UMB and the A. James Clark School of Engineering at UMCP. Located on the fourth floor of 4MLK, a new state-of-the-art facility in the University of Maryland BioPark in Baltimore, it will help ensure that the real-world medical concerns of patients and of health care professionals directly inform the development of devices, diagnostics and treatments, and accelerate the pathway from research to patient care.


*4MLK building — The new center in Baltimore occupies the entire fourth floor of 4MLK and was custom-designed by UMSOM to facilitate collaboration between UMB and UMCP researchers.*




**Topics:** [Research](https://today.umd.edu/tags/research)


**Tags:** [Health Care](https://today.umd.edu/topic/health-care), [Philanthropy](https://today.umd.edu/topic/philanthropy), [Research](https://today.umd.edu/topic/research)


**Units:** [A. James Clark School of Engineering](https://today.umd.edu/topic/james-clark-school-engineering)