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Centers of Excellence

Centers of Excellence

The Centers of Excellence Program, through Empire State Development, the State’s economic development agency, supports major upgrades of research facilities and other high technology and biotechnology capital projects, allowing colleges, universities and research institutions to secure research funding that will lead to new job creation. In total, these initiatives are expected to leverage new private sector and other contributions of more than $1 billion.

Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences
Buffalo
Mission: The Center will specialize in drug design research, computational and three-dimensional visualization, product commercialization and workforce training.

Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences

Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems
Syracuse
Mission: The Center will focus research efforts on indoor environments in the areas of indoor air quality, comfort, lighting, acoustics and intelligent controls.

Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems

Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics
Albany
Mission: The Center will be the only university-based 300-millimeter computer wafer pilot prototyping facility in the world. It will provide critical laboratory and clean room space for research, build incubator space for high-tech company spin-offs, and create a workforce development program. The Center is also home to International SEMATECH North.

Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics

Infotonics Technology Center (ITC)
Greater Rochester
Mission: The Center will focus on creating technology transfer and pilot fabrication facilities for high-resolution imaging and ultra-fast communications devices that can be shared by Center partners to accelerate product development.

Infotonics Technology Center (ITC)

Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP)
Binghamton
Mission: The Center will advance the frontiers of microelectronics research and development, specifically addressing challenges in small scale systems design, development, prototyping, process development and manufacturing for the microelectronics industry.

Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP)

Center of Excellence in Wireless & Information Technology
Stony Brook
Mission: The Center will focus on large scale computing and data mining critical to genomics and other data intensive areas, Internet applications, wireless telecommunications, health care applications, and workforce development programs.

Center of Excellence in Wireless & Information Technology