Archived News Stories 2005-Present

•	Smith & Nephew Grants $300,000 to InMotion In return for the charitable donation, InMotion will name Smith & Nephew to its list of Founding Funders, those who helped establish the institute. Also, InMotion will grant future naming rights to the company.

•	Age Defying Though Memphis’ burgeoning biotech community may eventually propel the city into the ranks of the elite nationally, there’s still a good deal of distance to cover before that becomes a reality. Nonetheless, one niche of the sector is already shining through: orthopaedics.

•	InMotion finally making some moves By summer's end InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute, the external complement to the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, will have a new biologics lab manager, a bio-statistician, a lab technician and most of the gear it will need to begin work.

•	A Symbiotic Relationship University of Memphis undergraduate Candice Smoots soon will be using about $200,000 worth of high-tech medical equipment that belongs to the InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute.

•	InMotion, U of M to share Donated scientific equipment worth about $200,000 has made its way from a medical device maker in Warsaw, Ind., to a laboratory at the University of Memphis.

•	Business-minded board members contribute to early success of InMotion Musculoskeletal In less than two years, Dick Tarr has taken InMotion from an idea to a functioning research recruiter with funding, labs and credibility.

•	InMotion indeed, ready to serve medical device field Everything is new at the InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute labs, including the staff.

•	National Honor Hints at More Biotech Buzz In the push to land more national recognition for Memphis' emerging biotech industry, here's another development to mark down in the win column.

•	Medtronic buys naming rights to InMotion lab Medtronic has purchased naming rights to a research and development laboratory at the InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute for $300,000.

•	Health interests taking chances For many firms in the Memphis health care industry, 2006 was the year of the gamble.

•	Orthopedic institute gets tough love Visiting experts blunt: Local research culture needs a 'sea change.'

•	InMotion sells naming rights to first lab Like any big league arena, InMotion has sold naming rights to its first laboratory, which will be known from now on as the Baptist Musculoskeletal Biologics Laboratory.

•	InMotion recruits orthopedic surgeon; shows ability to hire renowned scientists InMotion recruits orthopedic surgeon; shows ability to hire renowned scientists.

•	Making Brain Waves Ten leading scientists to help chart course for musculoskeletal institute.

•	Memphis needs more scientists, but for now, they're mostly not locally grown When Elliot Sanders was an undergraduate student at the University of California-Irvine, a professor invited him to help design a wheelchair ...

•	InMotion will give a leg up in musculoskeletal research mus-cu-lo-skel-e-tal adj. Relating to or involving muscles and the skeleton.

•	Changing the culture of research InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute is looking to Pittsburgh as a model for successfully creating a constructive culture.

•	Members on the Move Recently, OrthoKnow had the opportunity to speak with Richard (Dick) Tarr.

•	InMotion: Memphis institute re-writing the book on orthopedic research I have heard hundreds -- if not 1,000 -- stories.

•	InMotion receives IRS nonprofit designation Musculoskeletal lab can seek funding.

•	Permission Granted InMotion's $3.6 million in grants signals nod for local orthopedics industry.

•	InMotion Given $3.6 Million From Local Foundations Two Memphis foundations have invested serious cash into the vision of building the city's biotech industry.

•	InMotion draws dream team to scientific advisory board Dick Tarr made a list of the 10 top orthopedic and regenerative medicine scientists in North America, his dream team for a scientific advisory board. All 10 agreed to participate on the first request.

•	Musculoskeletal Research Institute changes its name The mouthful that was the Memphis Musculoskeletal Research Institute has an easier name to go along with its newly focused mission.

Archived News Stories 2005-Present

In return for the charitable donation, InMotion will name Smith & Nephew to its list of Founding Funders, those who helped establish the institute. Also, InMotion will grant future naming rights to the company.