Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Receives $4.5M Through Restore NY Grant

January 15, 2008 (BUFFALO, NY) – “Many thanks to Gov. Spitzer, who has shown real commitment to his vision of building an innovation economy here in Western New York by dedicating $4.5M from Restore NY to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. This grant allows us to immediately move forward on renovations of the former four-story Trico building at 640 Ellicott Street. Our goal is to help grow local biotech companies while at the same time trying to attract companies from Canada, internationally, and across the United States to the medical campus. Thank you to the City of Buffalo for submitting the application for this grant. Mayor Byron Brown and the City have been invaluable partners to us and we look forward to continuing to work together to achieve our common goal of cultivating the knowledge-based economy in our region,” said Matthew K. Enstice, Executive Director of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

About the BNMC

BNMC, a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2001 by key health care and research institutions, the City of Buffalo, and neighborhood stakeholders, serves as the single entity charged with collaboratively planning and implementing projects and programs for the medical campus. The BNMC is dedicated to the cultivation of a world-class medical campus for clinical care, research, education, and entrepreneurship on 120 acres in downtown Buffalo. It is home to the region’s top clinical, research, and medical education institutions, including: University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired, Kaleida Health, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo Medical Group, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, and Upstate New York Transplant Services.

More than 8,000 people come to work at the medical campus every day. Together, the BNMC institutions host over one million patient visits annually and account for approximately $1.5 billion in economic impact each year. The medical campus consists of more than 4.5 million square feet of research, clinical, and support space.

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