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Med Tech park grand opening is Friday

Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:02 am

The grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the first building in the Upstate New York Medical & Technology Park is set for 3 p.m. Friday.

The event will be hosted by the owner of the facility, Genesee County Economic Development Center, in conjunction with its tenants, including Genesee Community College’s nursing program and United Memorial Medical Center’s Summit Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Center. The grand opening is open to the public.

Ribbon cutting is at 4 p.m. Afterwards people will be able to tour the facility and watch demonstrations from the organizations that have set up shop in the Med Tech Center.

The Med Tech Park is a 32.5-acre parcel on Hawley Drive in the town of Batavia, across the street from the GCC campus. The GCEDC and several other tenants moved into the first building on the site on July 1.

The two-story, 43,000-square-foot Med Tech Center is officially known as the Dr. Bruce A. Holm Upstate MedTech Centre.

Holm is executive director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences at the State University at Buffalo. UB’s Center of Excellence works with life sciences companies, such as makers of medical devices, and helps them get new products into the commercial market.

A former Batavia resident, Holm is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, a medical researcher and entrepreneur. He holds patents on several prescription drugs that are on the market and helped establish two biotechnology companies.

“The MedTech Centre’s support of emerging life science companies is exactly what is needed for us to be successful,” Holm said in a news release.

GCEDC chief executive officer Steve Hyde said $7.2 million Med Tech Center was a collaborative effort with GCC, UMMC and UB.

“We have great partners who were able to recognize the potential for a technically advanced medical hub in Genesee County,” Hyde said in a news release.

GCC’s School of Nursing occupies the entire second floor of the new MedTech Centre building. Its 20,000-square-feet of space  includes a lecture hall, conference rooms, and state-of-the-art nursing labs for hands-on learning.

There are also meeting rooms, vending machines, lockers and offices for faculty and administrators.

GCC has expanded its nursing program in response to a nationwide shortage of registered nurses.