History
Roswell Park Cancer institute was established in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, who was a professor of surgery at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. It was the first institute to focus on cancer treatment and research in the world. Dr Roswell Park saw that there was a need for cancer care and acted.
Dr Park said that “Only through a deliberate well-planned, combined attack from various directions by means fitted for such work could real advances be made and further the relationship of laboratory work, clinical study and education must be closely associated.
Research started in three rooms in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. It did not take long to outgrow those three rooms. Buffalo citizens saw the importance of cancer research and decided to donate money to purchase land and a new building. The biggest contributor was Mrs. William Gratwik who donated $25,000. The Gratwick Research Laboratory of the University at Buffalo was constructed in 1901. It was located on High and Elm in Buffalo, New York.
Dr. Park was a busy man; he wrote many books, gave lectures, and was the administrator at the cancer research center. In 1904 Dr. Park stepped down from and Dr. Harvey R. Gaylord took over as the second director of the institute. Dr. Park remained as the head chairman of the board of trustees.
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