Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
Progress Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 20, 2004

Contact Information:
Amy Schmit, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus – (716) 843.7515

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Two years after rolling out a comprehensive Master Plan & Implementation Strategy, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) leaders today provided an update. The progress report was presented to an audience of business leaders, healthcare professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, government and community leaders, as well as the media, during a public meeting in Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Hilleboe Auditorium.

implementation of the BNMC Master Plan, we are delivering on our promise to cultivate a world-class medical campus in downtown Buffalo that supports two of our region’s top three industry sectors – health care and education,” said Thomas R. Beecher, Jr., chair of the BNMC Board of Directors. “We are building on our assets and planting the seeds for our future.”

In addition to showing off various infrastructure and signage projects currently underway, Mr. Beecher highlighted two major investments at the BNMC. These are construction of the Buffalo Life Sciences Complex and a pledge of $20 million to the medical campus and the region’s Life Sciences Initiative.

The Buffalo Life Sciences Complex – a partnership of the University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute – is currently under construction at the heart of the medical campus at the intersection of Ellicott and Virginia streets. This project represents over $150 million of investment in three new buildings that will result in over 400,000 square feet of state-of-the-art research space being added to the medical campus. BNMC leaders say that this is only the beginning of significant investment at the medical campus.

This past summer the New York State Senate and Assembly each pledged $10 million for capital projects at the medical campus. Funds were promised in response to a $40 million proposal designed by institution leaders and BNMC staff to support scientific recruitment and entrepreneurial development on the medical campus.

story of collaboration, progress, and economic development is resonating with lawmakers. They see that we have a plan and that together we are making its vision a reality,” Beecher said.

Following an overview of BNMC accomplishments, institution leaders provided individual progress reports. Mr. Beecher was joined by:

John B. Simpson, PhD, President, University at Buffalo
Candace Johnson, PhD, Sr. VP for Translational Research, Roswell Park Cancer Inst.
James Reynolds, MD, Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired & Ross Eye Inst.
William D. McGuire, CEO, Kaleida Health
George T. DeTitta, PhD, CEO, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Inst.
John Notaro, MD, Chair of the Board, Buffalo Medical Group
Janet M. Maher, President & CEO, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center
Anthony M. Masiello, Mayor, City of Buffalo

Since its inception in April 2001, the BNMC has worked – in partnership with its member institutions, as well as the city, the county, and the community – to cultivate a world-class medical campus on 100 acres in downtown Buffalo. In November 2002, the BNMC rolled out a collaborative and interdisciplinary Master Plan & Implementation Strategy. Today leaders provided an update regarding progress to date and their vision for the future.

The BNMC was founded by the University at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Kaleida Health, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and the Buffalo Medical Group Foundation working in partnership with the City of Buffalo, the County of Erie, the Allentown neighborhood and the Fruit Belt neighborhood. In 2003, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center and the Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired joined the BNMC board of directors.

There are currently 8,000 people who come to work at the medical campus every day. BNMC institutions have a total of $600 million in annual expenditures, an additional economic impact of $300 million to the region, and over 750,000 patient visits a year.

Campus institutions currently occupy nearly three million square feet of space dedicated to clinical, research, and, medical education purposes. The next 10 to 15 years will see the addition of approximately 1.8 million square feet of development.

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