Maryland Governor Larry Hogan told reporters Monday that a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Sunday between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Maryland, Baltimore branch.
Hogan is currently in Israel leading a delegation of state officials, business and academic leaders on a week-long trade mission and economic development trip.
Much of the itinerary is focused on cyber security, bio tech and medical industries.
But Hogan said the MOU signed Sunday would strengthen the “successful partnership between these world-class universities and help to advance research in Maryland, particularly in the study of military medicine.”
The U.S. Naval Academy and headquarters, in particular, is located in Annapolis, Maryland.
Hogan said the MOU was intended to “explore opportunities for joint research or training, exchange scholars for seminars and conferences, and increase the exchange of students and faculty for research, teaching and study over the next five years.”
The University of Maryland’s Baltimore branch has recently launched a drive to recruit top scientists in an effort to make the biomedical research program at its School of Medicine the best in the United States.