Johns Hopkins University in Malaysia is a

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and research facility that was announced in September 2010 as a joint venture between

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

and

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Sdn Bhd (AMC), which to form Perdana University. Prime Minister

Najib Razak Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...

stated that the school will be located at Serdang in Selangor state and will be part of a "medical city".Johns Hopkins in M'sia, The Star, 27 September 2010Johns Hopkins University to set up medical school and hospital in Malaysia, By WONG CHUN WAI, The Star, 26 September 2010 It will be Malaysia's first private medical school with research facilities. The school offered a four-year curriculum based on the "Genes to Society" concept and admit 100 students annually.Top US hospital could open facility in Malaysia, The China Post, 27 September 2010 Malaysia's minister for higher education said the school would focus on

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, and providing

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. The

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is taught in Perdana University, a wholly owned subsidiary of AMC. Malaysia's

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said that the venture with Johns Hopkins was part of an effort to promote

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and encourage Malaysian physicians working overseas to return home. Johns Hopkins University in Malaysia is a part of a larger effort by the

Malaysian government The Government of Malaysia, officially the Federal Government of Malaysia ( ms, Kerajaan Persekutuan Malaysia), is based in the Federal Territory of Putrajaya with the exception of the legislative branch, which is located in Kuala Lumpur. Malay ...

to develop "education cities" in the Iskandar Development Region, Pagoh and

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. In August 2014, Perdana University announced discontinuation of their partnership.

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{{Reflist Private universities and colleges in Malaysia