Buffalo Institute for Genomics
University at Buffalo's Center for Computational Research.
The University at Buffalo (UB) will receive up to $47.5 million from the Buffalo Billion to build out and expand their existing biomedical research capacity in order to accelerate recent advances in tailored treatment options and improve health outcomes.
The Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG) boasts the brightest minds in the fields of bioinformatics, omics and data analytics to accelerate life sciences growth in the region. BIG provides partners with technical expertise, talent, state-of-the-art facilities, high-tech genomic and proteomic equipment, big data solutions and funding.
BIG partners have benefited from this incentive by:
- Leveraging faculty expertise
- Conducting clinical trials with UB
- Accessing specialized genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics equipment to support research and development of new/enhanced products and services
- Acquiring capital equipment through a forgivable loan
- Utilizing the cutting-edge infrastructure at UB’s biorepository or Center for Computational Research
The following companies currently have agreements with the Buffalo Institute for Genomics and have created more than 254 jobs. In total, these partners anticipate generating more than 490 new life science jobs.
- Aesku NY
- Applied Healthcare Research Management
- Circuit Clinical
- Charlotte’s Web (formerly Stanley Brothers Bio Tec)
- Enhanced Pharmacodynamics
- Garwood Medical Devices
- KSL Biomedical
- Neurovascular Diagnostics
- Polymer Conversions
- Tactiva Therapeutics
- Thermo Fisher
- ZeptoMetrix
BIG’s resources help to advance molecular diagnostics tests, companion diagnostics, therapeutics agents and precision medicine techniques to speed product to market innovations.
Learn more about the University at Buffalo's Buffalo Institute for Genomics.
- August 2020 – Garwood Medical Devices Announces Series C Funding
- April 2020 – ZeptoMetrix leverages UB facilities to develop products for infectious disease testing — including for COVID-19
- April 2020 – UB partner KSL Biomedical is advancing COVID-19 diagnostics
- November 2019 – UB spinoff lands nearly $1M in federal funding to develop brain aneurysm screening
- June 2019 - Buffalo startup advances science of diagnosing autoimmune disease[Kf1]
- May 2019 - Companies partner With UB's BIG[Kf2]
- March 2017 - UB, NYSTAR Pair to Extend WNY Incubator Network (WIN) to 2021[Kf3]
- November 2016 - Governor Cuomo Announces Circuit Clinical to Create 100 New Jobs and Expand Operations in WNY
- July 2014 - Governor Cuomo Announces $105 Million in Funding Approved for New York State Genomic Medicine and Big Data Center
- March 2014 - Governor Cuomo Announces Partnership Between New York Genome Center and IBM Watson Group to Research Alternative Treatments for Cancer Patients