UB celebrated the return of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to downtown Buffalo in December 2017. Formerly located on UB's South Campus after being moved from the downtown area in 1953, the Jacobs School today anchors the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, enhancing both UB's collaboration with our health care partners and the role that the Jacobs School plays in the health and wellbeing of the region's communities and neighborhoods. 

The construction of the 628,000-square-foot Jacobs School building is the result of a $375 million project that officially broke ground in 2013. The building and school are named after Jeremy M. Jacobs, chairman of Delaware North and the UB Council, and his family, whose historic $30 million gift was critical to the medical school's  move downtown.