Research Institute Named After Jim Kelly’s Son

There is a new building on the University at Buffalo's Downtown Medical Campus that bears a familiar name.

Jim and Jill Kelly, along with family, friends, and doctors officially opened the Hunter James Kelly Research Institute Thursday night.

"Every time you come here, knowing this little boy never spoke a word, but he's going to change the lives of so many kids, that's what it's all about," Bills Hall of Fame Quarterback Jim Kelly said.

The facility is named for the son of Bills great Jim Kelly. Hunter suffered from Krabbe Disease, a degenerative nerve disorder. He died in 2005 at the age of eight.

The Institute already has a team of doctors in place, to research and study diseases like Hunter's, with the hope of one day finding a cure.

(From MSN and WKBW)