In addition to engaging large business partnerships, we are committed to working with the small business community, including companies that are:  

  • Women owned 
  • Small disadvantaged
  • Veteran owned 
  • Service disabled 
  • In historically underutilized business zones 

We conduct outreach to businesses, including participation in SMART PROC and Frederick County Chamber of Commerce events. We work with the National Institutes of Health Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management when seeking candidates for business opportunities.

Frederick National Laboratory Director Ethan Dmitrovsky with Morehouse School of Medicine's James Lillard
HBCU collaboration spotlight

Morehouse School of Medicine biospecimens to boost diversity of cancer samples for proteogenomic analysis

A national effort to understand the molecular basis of numerous cancers by analyzing proteins and genes will benefit from greater diversity in patient samples through a new agreement with the Morehouse School of Medicine, a historically Black medical school in Atlanta. 
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