Discovery & Innovation
Johns Hopkins campuses in Baltimore are world renowned for pioneering life-changing research that has led to global innovations across multiple fields that all Baltimoreans should proudly claim as their own.
Did You Know?
1889
The rubber glove for surgery was invented at Johns Hopkins.
1957
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory created a technology that we now all take for granted: GPS.
1958
Johns Hopkins researchers developed CPR and the defibrillator.
2020
The Coronavirus Resource Center created the world-leading COVID-19 pandemic tracker.
2024
Immunotherapy and mRNA-based treatments discovered at Hopkins are radically improving our abilities to defeat cancer, including therapies for colon cancer and brain cancer.
Tech Transfer
Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, which helps commercialize discoveries, has facilitated the creation of 135 startups that have raised $4.8 billion in venture capital over the last decade—43% of which has remained in Baltimore.
JHTV’s portfolio represents 314 active products, 330 products in development, and 3,805 patents. Its 97 licensing agreements with companies generated $59 million in revenue in fiscal year 2025. The dozens of startups in Baltimore that were founded from scientific advances made at Johns Hopkins span various industries, especially medical devices, digital health and cancer diagnostics.
Growing With Hopkins
Johns Hopkins graduates Clariss Hu and Bailey Surtees co-founded Kubanda Cryotherapy—a company that uses a cryogenic technology that the students developed at Hopkins to deliver affordable, in-clinic treatments for “lumps, bumps, and tumors” on pets.
Growing With Hopkins
The culmination of 25 years of work, Pylarify is an on-market imaging agent for prostate cancer detection based on technology from Martin Pomper, M.D., Johns Hopkins Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences from 1996 to 2023. Since FDA approval in 2021 Pylarify has become the market leader for prostate cancer diagnostic imaging via PET scan. It is estimated to have been used in over 250,000 patient scans in 2024, and generates at least $1 billion in sales.
Social Innovation Lab
Launched in 2012, the Social Innovation Lab each year supports a new group of social entrepreneurs from across Baltimore as they build innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions to create a healthy and prosperous world. The program is open to any applicant from the greater Baltimore area, not just Hopkins affiliates.
Growing With Hopkins
Bree Jones, founder of Parity Homes, won $25,000 as part of the Social Innovation Lab’s 2020 class. Her startup seeks to revive once-thriving communities by turning abandoned structures within historically redlined neighborhoods into homeownership opportunities. In 2024, after delivering its first two homes, Parity Homes announced a goal of delivering 200 affordable homes per year.
