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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 23, 2004

SCHUMER ANNOUNCES $500,000 FOR HAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER IN BUFFALO

Funding included in FY05 Omnibus Appropriations bill

US Senator Charles E. Schumer today announced Congress passed $500,000 in federal funding for the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Center in Buffalo. $250,000 of the funds are listed in the Energy and Water and $250,000 of the funds are listed in the Labor Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations sections of the Fiscal Year 2005 Omnibus Appropriations bill. The bill now heads to the President for his signature.

"Hauptman-Woodward's new research center is a win-win for Buffalo," Schumer said. "It will continue the excellent medical research at Hauptman-Woodward, and be a lynchpin in the economic revitalization of downtown Buffalo."

The building, when completed, will house the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, home to Buffalo's Nobel Laureate Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman. It is part of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus being planned for downtown Buffalo, which will include Hauptman-Woodward, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the University at Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Kaleida Health and the Buffalo Medical Group Foundation. The building was designed by acclaimed architect Mehrdad Yazdani of Cannon Design in Los Angeles.

Schumer said the new Center for Structural Biology will bring new jobs to the City of Buffalo, revitalize the downtown core, be at the epicenter of cutting-edge scientific research, and help to revitalize the Fruit Belt neighborhood surrounding the proposed Medical Campus.

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