Ground broken on New UB medical school
BUFFALO - Ground was broken on Tuesday for the University of Buffalo’s $375 million state-of-the-art medical school building. Scheduled to open in the fall of 2016, UB’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical is a milestone project in the university’s history and in the city’s efforts to reinvent itself as a destination for world-class health care. The eight-story, 540,000-square-foot building is the first project to be funded under the NYSUNY2020 Challenge Grant program, a hallmark initiative put in place by the Governor in 2011 to incentivize bottom-up, individualized, long-term economic development plans on SUNY campuses and the surrounding communities.
“Today’s groundbreaking of a new medical school here at the University of Buffalo is yet another demonstration of the state’s commitment to revitalizing Western New York and bring Buffalo back stronger than ever before,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said. “The Western New York region is becoming one of the nation’s premier locations for health and medical sciences, and this new school will play a central role in bringing the best and brightest medical students, teachers, researchers, and doctors here to Buffalo. In 2011, we launched the NYSUNY2020 Challenge Grant Program because we believed that universities like UB could serve as a hub for job creation, economic growth and community revitalization. With today’s groundbreaking, we are continuing to see this vision become a reality.”
The new medical school will provide a greatly enhanced clinical education for UB medical students through state-of-the-art research and simulation laboratories and through synergies with Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) partners. It will produce new research leading to advances in medical treatments and technologies, and create opportunities to grow the region’s emerging biomedical industry. The surrounding neighborhood will benefit with access to clinics, availability of hundreds of new jobs and an overall revitalization of the area.
The medical school project is the largest individual construction project in the university’s 167 years and is a critical step in the UB 2020 plan to pursue research addressing critical societal needs, provide students with transformative educational experiences and further engage with local and global communities.
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