‘”In the fall of 2002, we shared our vision with the University at Buffalo. The university offered to house the institute in the planned Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and to help us find a director to lead the institute. We thought it would take many years of planning and fundraising for our dream to come true,” said Waggoner. “When we learned that our research institute would be part of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, an incredible collaboration between UB, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the greater Buffalo medical community, we were very pleased and very excited.”‘