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InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute Opens its First Laboratory at 20 S. Dudley
Open House scheduled for March 1, 2007, 3-7 p.m., with ribbon cutting ceremony set for 6 p.m.
Memphis, Tenn – February 26, 2007 – The InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute celebrates the grand opening of its first laboratory space on March 1, 2007, from 3-7 p.m., with a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled at 6 p.m. The celebration will be held at InMotion’s labs at 20 South Dudley, Suite 700.
“These laboratories are the cumulative effect of a lot of Memphians believing in Memphis’ potential as a leading musculoskeletal implant research center of excellence,” says Richard Tarr, InMotion President & Executive Director. “I am proud to be part of the team that made these laboratories a reality, and I am happy to share our success with Memphis.”
The site houses office space, meeting space, and two laboratories. The first, named the Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation Laboratory, will be a ‘wet lab.’
Work in this laboratory will include analysis of cells, tissue-engineering scaffolds, and biologic compounds to induce musculoskeletal tissue regeneration and repair. This laboratory also will serve as a central location for InMotion’s clinical studies, including Phase II-IV clinical trials for pharmaceutical and implant treatments of orthopaedic injury and disease.
The second laboratory is the Medtronic Laboratory. Work in this biomechanics laboratory will include testing ‘frames’ that place force on human bone, human bone replicas, or manufactured implant devices to mimic loading conditions and human movement, so InMotion scientists can determine the amounts of activity implants withstand before breaking.
InMotion’s challenge now is to fill the laboratories with established primary investigators who will focus InMotion’s research efforts. Included in this group are clinician scientists through a joint appointment with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery – Campbell Clinic. Under a similar partnership, InMotion is recruiting a Director of Biomechanics with the University of Memphis Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Along with recruiting these key researchers, InMotion is recruiting laboratory managers, a biostatistician and clinical research coordinators.
The funding for these laboratories came from the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.
InMotion is an independent not-for-profit laboratory that reduces disability and improves mobility for the musculoskeletal patient through translational research.
Along with the funding listed above, InMotion has received funding from multiple sources, including seed funding from The Campbell Foundation and the Hyde Family Foundations, research personnel support from the Plough Foundation, and support for its website from the Thomas W. Briggs Foundation.
For media queries, contact Director of Grants and Communications Chris Przybyszewski at 901-271-0022, 901-570-0128, or at chris@inmotionmemphis.org.
For more information about InMotion, visit http://www.inmotionmemphis.org.