GOVERNOR, INDUSTRY ANNOUNCE BUFFALO CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
GOVERNOR, INDUSTRY ANNOUNCE BUFFALO CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Buffalo Center in Bioinformatics will be Foundation for New Economy in Western NY
Governor George E. Pataki was joined today by Bill Blake, Compaq’s VP of Worldwide High Performance Technical Computing and business and academic leaders to announce up to $150 million in private sector support for a Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics in Buffalo a key component of the Governor’s $1 billion high-tech and biotech Centers of Excellence proposal.
Industry partners in the endeavor include major computing, software and communications networking companies such as Compaq, Veridian, InforMax and Stryker and others such as Dell, Sun, SGI and Q-Chem. Academic and research partners include the University of Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.
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The Center will be located in downtown Buffalo, near the medical campus. Plans call for a 150,000 square foot building to house drug design research space, computational and three dimensional visualization facilities, product commercialization space and workforce training facilities. Academic and industry researchers will work side-by-side in a collaborative effort to identify key research areas, and will translate that research into commercial realities and opportunities to attract high tech and biotech firms of all sizes to Western New York.
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In addition to academic and research partners such as the University of Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, the Center of Excellence will also involve academic collaborations with the New York State Structural Biology Consortium, Cornell, Syracuse Health Science Center, the University of Rochester and Columbia University.
