Accelerating Innovation and Discovery in Medicine (ACCEL-Med), a major initiative of the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine was launched on November 22, 2013. ACCEL-Med will increase the pace and scope of clinical and basic sciences research and will dramatically impact and improve human health and wellbeing. The initiative kicked off with a full-day symposium, the SOM Festival of Science. Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health, delivered the inaugural keynote address.

For a complete report on the Festival of Science, including more video, please visit:
http://somvweb.som.umaryland.edu/absolutenm/templates/?a=2566&z=41