Baltimore high school students
Innovation Scholars
A CBID pathway for city students to work alongside graduate designers on real civic challenges: prototypes, user research, and presentations to partners who can actually implement.
Program details →Johns Hopkins University · Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design
Applied research for Baltimore and beyond
We run programs that put students, veterans, and civic partners in the same room as designers and researchers, building prototypes, ventures, and summits that matter off the slide deck.
Who we are
The Adler Archer Laboratory is embedded at CBID. We exist to move ideas into field tests, policy conversations, and ventures, especially when the work starts in Baltimore classrooms, veteran-led teams, or transatlantic policy rooms.
Serious engineering rigor, without the ivory tower distance.
“Our best work happens when the people who live the problem stay in the lead, and we bring design, evidence, and partnerships to back them up.”
By the numbers
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- 0 Signature pathways: Scholars, SPEAR, Nexus Harbor
- 0+ Leaders engaged through Nexus Harbor & allied convenings (est.)
- 2016 Archer Lab timeline begins
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What we do
Veteran founders
SPEAR Veterans Accelerator
Intensive venture acceleration built with military-affiliated leaders: customer discovery, capital strategy, and cohort community. Run in partnership with the SPEAR team.
spearaccelerator.com
Transatlantic convenings
Nexus Harbor Summits
A summit series on policy, sustainability, veterans’ futures, and this cycle, health, AI, and collaboration across the Atlantic. Each year brings a different thematic focus and a different host city.
2026 summit preview →- 2024 Policy for open sustainability
- 2025 Veterans for the future
- 2026 Health, AI & transatlantic innovation · Washington, DC
Up next on the calendar
Virtual · April 29, 2026
Nexus Huddle: AI in Healthcare
A fireside chat on building and deploying AI in healthcare without creating regulatory risk, practical guardrails for builders and clinical partners.
