The University of Buffalo unveiled its new $375 million Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
The new facility is eight stories and 628,000 square feet of classroom space.
The school said this new building will serve the school as a recruiting tool, addressing local and national physician shortages by expanding class size by about 25 percent.
The school is also recruiting 100 world class physician scientists and medical specialists to work on new treatments and help advance medical care worldwide.
Jeremy Jacobs, who is the chairman of the UB Council, and whose family name is attached to this new medical school, said it will be the finest facility of its kind in America.
"Buffalo is now a beacon of opportunity and not a reminder of bygone era," Jacobs said. "This medical school is the most impressive and state-of-the-art building of its kind in the country and perhaps the world."
The location of the new building is important, too. It will streamline everything to the downtown area versus going back and forth from the downtown medical campus to UB's south campus.
The new building on the downtown medical campus also returns the school to its historic roots where it was located from the late 1800's to the mid 1900's.
Medical students will get to start classes at the new facility beginning this coming January.