Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) was established in 1898 on the principle of integrating clinical cancer care, cancer research and cancer education.

RPCI is the oldest “cancer institute” in the US and is one of only a handful of freestanding National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the country. RPCI is a 27 acre campus located in the heart of the 100 acre Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus near downtown Buffalo, NY.

The focus of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, which incorporates components of the State University of New York at Buffalo and is home to the Hauptmann Woodward Institute for Structural Biology, is to encourage collaborative biomedical research.