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Buffalo Niagara is Ideal for Life Sciences
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Companies in fields like pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare IT, and more are thriving in Buffalo Niagara. We’ve assisted many of them and we can help you grow in Buffalo Niagara too! Explore our resources, then contact us to assist with your project. Our economic development professionals can provide site location assistance, labor market and demographics analysis, market research, facilitate state and local incentive applications, and much more – all confidentially.
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Why Buffalo Niagara?
Companies are Choosing Buffalo Niagara
Companies from across the country choose Buffalo Niagara because of its unique regional advantages. And more than $530 million in angel and venture capital funding — with two thirds dedicated to life sciences and health sciences — has been funneled into our region’s strong research and development sector.
Sources: Lightcast (establishments and employment), Buffalo Business First (angel and venture capital funding)
Dedicated to Life Sciences
Buffalo’s Innovation Center provides idea generation, campus collaboration, business modelers, startup companies, service providers, and scaling post-launch businesses. The internationally recognized Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute was founded by Dr. Herbert Hauptman, who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Finally, the UB NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences is home to a $100 million collaboration in genomic medicine, as well as the University at Buffalo’s Center for Computational Research, one of the most powerful university-based supercomputers in the country.
A Robust Educational Ecosystem
The Buffalo Niagara region is home to three world-renowned engineering schools; plus one of the world’s top public research universities, the University at Buffalo. As part of UB, and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is one of the nation’s best medical schools for clinical care and research.
The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
This 120-acre, world-class collaborative research and medical park anchors the Innovation District in the heart of downtown Buffalo. The campus includes brand-new hospitals, research centers, incubators, and over 200 private-sector companies –- employing about 20,000 people.
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Download the Buffalo Niagara Life Sciences Brochure
Our region is home to an ever-growing network of life sciences and health sciences companies from spin-offs and startups to businesses choosing to relocate here. Explore the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), see how Buffalo Niagara is investing in life sciences and health sciences, and learn about the invaluable thought-leaders that call Buffalo Niagara home.
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Niagara Food Specialties
Niagara Food Specialties (NFS), incorporated in 2001, is a food processor, distributor and wholesaler, specializing in the production of prosciutto ham for the foodservice (restaurants & hotels) industry and gourmet retail markets. NFS adds value to raw pork, producing artisanal quality charcuterie, including prosciutto, capicola, pancetta, salami, guanciale, and sausage. This family operated business is currently headquartered in Niagara Falls, ON. NFS began to investigate US expansion when they faced with growth limitations due to border crossing restrictions and rules on imported meats to the US.
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Pride Pak
Canadian-headquartered Pride Pak processes fresh vegetables, making ready-made salads in a bag and chopped vegetables. The company also sources raw vegetables from both the US and Canada. Pride Pak was started in 1984 and has their main office in Mississauga with another facility in New Foundland. They currently employ over 200 people and sell to grocery retailers and into the restaurant industry.
With growing sales in the US, Steven Karr, CEO sought a new facility across the border to grow his business. In 2014, Pride Pak reached out to multiple regions within New York State to locate their new facility.
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Pressure Drop Brewing
Karl Kolbe was born and raised in the Buffalo Niagara region. However, for the last seven years he has been brewing beer in Sacramento, California. Though craft beers captured his palate, Buffalo Niagara always had his heart.
When he decided he wanted to open his own brewery, he knew the City of Buffalo was the place. He and some partners went in on the business together, and thus, Pressure Drop Brewing was born. They will be brewing around eight beers at a time from 40 recipes, alternating them based on season. Their IPA-heavy beer will be ready in October.
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