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2006 Recap (0%)
 

• At the UT-Baptist Research Park, MBF removed all the debris from the implosion of the Baptist Memorial Hospital.  &nb...
  
  89.  Bio Agriculture Offers More than Crop Benefits (0%)
  A recent study by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development analyzed various industrial companies in Europe that use bio-based material...
  
  90.  Research park project begins (0%)
  2007-02-24 00:00:00.0 A huge pile of dirt on the site of the old Baptist Memorial Hospital signals the start of the UT-Baptist Research Park, a $450 m...
  
  91.  Bioworks Foundation sees potential in biofuels (0%)
  2007-02-28 00:00:00.0 Memphis Bioworks Foundation on Wednesday unveiled a new facet of itself: agriculture. Bioworks has been focused on human medici...
  
  92.  InMotion indeed, ready to serve medical device field (0%)
  Organizations ranging from Baptist Memorial Health Care to Medtronic have poured millions into the InMotion project, part of a larger effort to foster...
  
  93.  25X25 Initiative Pushes Nation to Set Standards, Goals for Renewable Energy Use (0%)
  2007-03-05 00:00:00.0 03|05|07 - On Tuesday, February 27, Brent Bailey, Southeast coordinator for the 25X 25 Action Plan, announced plans to present C...
  
  94.  Groundbreaking held for UT-Baptist's planned expansion (0%)
  2007-03-10 00:00:00.0 A groundbreaking ceremony in a grassy field Friday marked the official launch of construction on the UT-Baptist Research Park an...
  
  95.  Community Connectivity: Why A Fiber Optic Network is Necessary to Memphis (0%)
  However, many organizations are using technology in isolation they are connected internally, but lack the community connectivity that can foster innov...
  
  96.  Bioworks Foundation earns recognition for training of workers in science fields (0%)
  2007-03-23 00:00:00.0 A regional think tank is honoring the Memphis Bioworks Foundation for its efforts to train workers in science-based fields. The...
  
  97.  Memphis Bioworks" Foundation To Chosen as the Tennessee Recipient of the 2007 Innovator Award (0%)
  2007-03-23 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, March 23, 2007 The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has been selected as the Tennessee recipient of the 2007 Inno...
  
  98.  Groundbreaking for New UTHSC Regional Biocontainment Lab Signals Movement--At Last (0%)
  2007-04-01 00:00:00.0 March witnessed a major move in the ongoing process of creating the UT-Baptist Research Park in midtown Memphis a groundbreaking...
  
  99.  Bioworks hosts lab research with anti-cancer promise (0%)
  The firm, ED Laboratories Inc., will soon begin renting lab space from the Memphis Bioworks Foundation. That company will develop an experimental dru...
  
  100.  A Solid Education Foundation is Critical for Area's Bioscience Plans (0%)
  

  Memphis Bioworks" Foundation Opens New Lab Space for Bioscience Entrepreneurs (0%)
  2007-04-11 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 11, 2007 Memphis Bioworks Foundation has renovated one of two buildings transferred to the nonprofit b...
  
  102.  Baptist gives buildings (0%)
  2007-04-20 00:00:00.0 Baptist Memorial Health Care announced its donation of two buildings to the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, a group dedicated to pr...
  
  103.  Biocontainment lab construction requires additional safety procedures (0%)
  2007-04-20 00:00:00.0 With space for researching infectious diseases and bioterrorism defense, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Reg...
  
  104.  Groundbreaking Celebration Marks Beginning of Construction of Regional Biocontainment Lab at UT-Baptist Research Park (0%)
  2007-04-20 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 20, 2007 The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis Bioworks" Foundation, and...
  
  105.  The Search for a Chancellor at UTHSC Presents and Opportunitiy for Memphis and Tennessee (0%)
  2007-04-25 00:00:00.0 04|25|07 - The opening of the chancellor s position at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis pres...
  
  106.  The Biotech Century (0%)
  American Biosciences Clusters The Battelle study conducted for BIO found that 11 states and Puerto Rico enjoy both large and specialized employment b...
  
  107.  Area a natural for agricultural biotechnology (0%)
  2007-05-25 00:00:00.0 The head of a group that's playing a leading role in building up science-based industry in Memphis says the city is in a strong...
  
  108.  Biotechnology Moving Ahead with Boost from Memphis Fast Forward Initiative (0%)
  Conducted by Atlanta-based Market Street Services and commissioned by Memphis Tomorrow, Memphis Regional Chamber, Memphis Mayor W.W. Herenton and Shel...
  
  109.  Biotech Development Veteran Joins Memphis Bioworks Foundation as Director of Business Development (0%)
  2007-06-14 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 14, 2007 Thomas Duarte, a specialist in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, has been named Directo...
  
  110.  Bio-Logistics or Bio-Logistics (0%)
  

  Biologistics industry prepared for takeoff (0%)
  The study found that the emerging hybrid industry holds promise for Memphis, as the nation's $294 billion biomedical industry is supported by a biolog...
  
  112.  Bioworks' workforce development lauded for innovation (0%)
  2007-06-25 00:00:00.0 Memphis Bioworks Foundation has been awarded the 2007 Innovator Award for Tennessee from the Southern Growth Policies Board. Th...
  
  113.  Bioscience focus areas are important part of Memphis' economic growth (0%)
  Renowned research institutions include St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Methodist University Hospital, UT Health Science Center, Memphis College...
  
  114.  MASE students benefit from longer school days, technology integration, curriculum (0%)
  

  Collaborative Bioscience Community Advances Memphis' Postion as Hub of Bioscience Activity (0%)
  We have seen many examples of how a collaborative community in Memphis can lead to new start-up companies and a more productive bioscience sector. ar...
  
  116.  Beach to river (0%)
  "I am looking forward to seeing that barren field filled up with research and economic power," Duarte, 53, says of the future home of the UT-Baptist R...
  
  117.  Fast Forward Initiative Brings Professional Grant Writer to Memphis Bioworks Foundation (0%)
  2007-07-27 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 27, 2007 Pat Meeks has been named executive director of grants and compliance for the Memphis Bioworks...
  
  118.  Leaders get behind ED plans (0%)
  According to the economic development plan, Memphis and Shelby County's economic development budget paled in comparison with those of peer cities such...
  
  119.  More traffic shutdowns on Union (0%)
  2007-08-21 00:00:00.0 Construction related to the future UT-Baptist Research Park is expected to slow traffic on Union for the next few days as worker...
  
  120.  Setting Our Sights on Bio-Logistics (0%)
  2007-08-23 00:00:00.0 08|23|07 - In the June BioBiz column, I discussed the concept of bio-logistics and Memphis need to focus on the bio aspects of t...
  
  121.  New Leadership at FedEx Institute of Technology to Help Institution Create Niche in Economic Development Community (0%)
  Recently, the University of Memphis named Shaye Mandle as Executive Director of the FedEx Institute of Technology. The vision of the FedEx Institute...
  
  122.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation Announces Launch of Business Accelerator to Drive Bioscience Development (0%)
  2007-10-04 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, October 4, 2007 - The Memphis Bioworks Foundation announced today that it will launch INNOVA, an accelerator...
  
  123.  New Technology Accelerator Funding Announced by MemphisED (0%)
  This week, we announced the funding of INNOVA, Memphis' own accelerator/seed fund that will drive the development of new technology-based companies in...
  
  124.  Innova gets funding injection (0%)
  2007-10-05 00:00:00.0 The Memphis Bioworks Foundation will receive $11.5 million over the next five years from MemphisED to launch Innova, a business...
  
  125.  Memphis Bioworks launching Biotech accelerator with $11.5M (0%)
  2007-10-08 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, TN--The Memphis economic development initiative, MemphisED will provide $11.5 million over five years to help the Memph...
  
  126.  Innova: Where ideas will sprout (0%)
  
  
  The Memphis Bioworks Foundation is forming Innova Inc. with $11.5 million over five years from the economic development arm of Memphis Fast Fo...
  
  127.  New and Existing Strategies Bring Memphis Bioworks Closer to Main Goals (0%)
  Life-saving research is taking place at the University of Tennessee and area institutions, including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Methodist...
  
  128.  Southwest Tennessee Community College feeding local biotech industry technicians (0%)
  "The growing need for this kind of work force was the major driving component for the program," says Amy Beth Waddell, the program's adviser. Alan Ye...
  
  129.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation Recognized as "MPACT Maker" Organization of the Year (0%)
  2007-10-26 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, October 26, 2007 - The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has been named the MPACT Maker Organization of the Year f...
  
  130.  Preparing the Way (0%)
  In addition, Tennessee's four main research centers Oak Ridge National Laboratory, St. Jude Medical, the University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt Univer...
  
  131.  UT biohazard lab obtains Defense Dept. funding (0%)
  2007-11-09 00:00:00.0 WASHINGTON -- A $4 million earmark in the Defense Department appropriations conference report passed Thursday will fund a Univer...
  
  132.  GTx's Partnership With Merck Brings National Focus to Memphis' Bioscience Industry (0%)
  

  Capitalizing on science (0%)
  
  
  But Woody has already heard formal presentations from three firms looking for funds, and he's in touch with another 12.
  
  Ken Woody, rece...
  
  134.  Bioscience Marketing Veteran Tapped to Lead INNOVA (0%)
  2007-11-28 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, November 28, 2007 - The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has named Ken Woody president of INNOVA, a business acce...
  
  135.  Mid-South Minority Business Council Recognizes Memphis Bioworks for Policies Supporting Minority Businesses (0%)
  2007-11-29 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, November 29, 2007 - The Mid-South Minority Business Council (MMBC) has awarded Memphis Bioworks Foundation t...
  
  136.  Armed with fresh funding, Innova prepares to launch investments in promising biotechs (0%)
  
  
  That driver is former Smith & Nephew, Inc., executive Ken Woody.
  
  Woody is seriously looking at three companies now and is making head...
  
  137.  BioImaging Symposium Gathers Top Experts to Update Clinicians (0%)
  2007-12-01 00:00:00.0 In November, students, clinicians and experts in the field of imaging converged upon the University of Memphis for a day of pres...
  
  138.  New Innova Prez Hits Ground Running (0%)
  Woody is the first president of Innova, a novel business development project spun out of Memphis Bioworks Foundation. Without even promoting Innova,...
  
  139.  Baptist Footprint Grows Ever Larger Downtown (0%)
  2007-12-19 00:00:00.0 When the 19-story Baptist Medical Center was imploded two years ago, it marked the departure of Baptist Memorial Hospital from D...
  
  140.  Classrooms filling up at MASE (0%)
  The school began with 147 students, says MASE principal Tommie Henderson, and has grown to 658. The student body is now divided between three floors...
  
  141.  Bioworks Foundation Treads Fine Line Of Space, Funding (0%)
  Meanwhile, Bares has scientists in need of lab space today. "You can't separate space from the seed capital that it takes to create companies," said...
  
  142.  Steven J. Bares, PhD, MBA, Named Interim Director for School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (0%)
  2008-01-29 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, January 29, 2008 - Steve J. Schwab, MD, executive dean and Memphis campus dean for the College of Medicine a...
  
  143.  Memphis may help test electronic medical records (0%)
  2008-02-01 00:00:00.0 Memphis could be one of 12 test markets nationwide for an experiment in using electronic record-keeping to improve health care q...
  
  144.  New Executive in Residence at Innova (0%)
  Dr. Dorsett will be responsible for helping evaluate companies seeking Innova s assistance, providing guidance to accelerate companies progress along...
  
  145.  Innova Inc. reveiwing investment opportunities (0%)
  2008-02-05 00:00:00.0 Innova Inc., a new firm looking to invest in startup companies in the sciences, could be making its first deals very soon. Ken...
  
  146.  Biotech Originator Helps New Crop Of Inventors (0%)
  Preston Dorsett three weeks ago was named executive in residence at Memphis Bioworks Foundation, but has quickly gravitated to Innova, a business deve...
  
  147.  Shelby Farms Park Master Plan Process Presents an Opportunity for Agricenter to Set Course for a Long-term Impact on Agriculture (0%)
  Under the direction of the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, a long range strategic Master Plan is being developed for the Park. Most of the attention o...
  
  148.  Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (0%)
  Last year, Tennessee was the lowest ranked state for successful SBIR and STTR grant applications. On February 22, the Tennessee Technology Developmen...
  
  149.  Baptist employees raise hospice funds (0%)
  2008-03-07 00:00:00.0 Employees of hospital group Baptist Memorial Health Care have pledged more than $1 million since November to help build a new re...
  
  150.  Wright Medical Group to expand foot products (0%)
  2008-03-08 00:00:00.0 Arlington-based medical device maker Wright Medical Group said it plans to spend at least $27.7 million to buy Berkeley, Calif-b...
  
  151.  MidSouth eHealth Alliance questions future of patient information when funding ends (0%)
  2008-03-14 00:00:00.0 Quantifying the value of sharing patient information has become a major focus of the MidSouth eHealth Alliance in its fourth yea...
  
  152.  Luminetx signs international distribution deals (0%)
  2008-03-14 00:00:00.0 Luminetx Corp. has signed its first international distribution contracts for the VeinViewer, its signature product, which allows...
  
  153.  GTx: Compelling Bioscience Here in Memphis (0%)
  2008-03-19 00:00:00.0

  03|19|08 - Synergy in the Biosciences (0%)
  A critical area of current focus is bringing together local research and intellectual property with early stage investment and business management exp...
  
  155.  Incubating the Future: Tennessee (0%)
  The facility, in close proximity to Vanderbilt University, offers wet lab space, office space, equipment and resources to emerging life sciences compa...
  
  156.  Wright Medical Group steps to forefront in foot, ankle device field (0%)
  The midsized firm's drive to become the world's leading provider of products for foot and ankle surgery has led to steep revenue growth, and the compa...
  
  157.  Tenn. businesses to get grant guidance (0%)
  2008-04-06 00:00:00.0 A plan sponsored by the Tennessee Technology Development Corp. targets small-business owners and will give entrepreneurs an edge...
  
  158.  UTHSC wins upgrade backing (0%)
  Last month, the UT Board of Trustees placed atop its priority list for construction projects across the UT system a proposed $80 million, 200,000-squa...
  
  159.  InMotion Study Finds Knee Pain Solutions (0%)
  "This is a difficult clinical problem in that anterior knee pain is a common occurrence after nailing of tibia fractures." Marinescu developed virtual...
  
  160.  St. Jude researchers find mutation in fatal leukemia (0%)
  2008-04-14 00:00:00.0 Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered evidence that a series of genetic mutations work together t...
  
  161.  Wright Medical doubling manufacturing space (0%)
  2008-04-18 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group, Inc., is investing $15 million-$20 million in a construction project that will add 67,000 square feet, a n...
  
  162.  Innova Memphis Inc. Invests In arGentis Pharmaceuticals (0%)
  2008-04-21 00:00:00.0 Innova Memphis Inc., an early-stage investment fund, announced today it has invested in arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC, a specialt...
  
  163.  Innova Memphis Inc. Invests In arGentis Pharmaceuticals (0%)
  2008-04-21 00:00:00.0 Innova Memphis Inc., an early-stage investment fund, announced today it has invested in arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC, a specialt...
  
  164.  Innova Inc. picks arGentis Pharmaceuticals for first investment (0%)
  2008-04-21 00:00:00.0 Innova Inc., a new venture capital fund that s targeting small companies in science and technology, announced today that it has...
  
  165.  arGentis Pharmaceuticals raises round from Innova Memphis (0%)
  2008-04-22 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, TN ArGentis Pharmaceuticals, which is developing treatments for dry eye syndrome and a life-threatening autoimmune dise...
  
  166.  Innova invests in arGentis Pharmaceuticals (0%)
  2008-04-22 00:00:00.0 Biotech business accelerator and incubator Innova Memphis Inc. has invested in arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC, a local specialty p...
  
  167.  Innova Memphis to Invest In arGentis Pharmaceuticals (0%)
  2008-04-22 00:00:00.0 Innova Memphis Inc., an early-stage investment fund, said Monday it has invested in Memphis-based arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC,...
  
  168.  Innova invests in arGentis project (0%)
  2008-04-22 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based drug startup arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC is the first company to receive funding from Innova Inc., a new venture...
  
  169.  Wright Medical profits increase 27% (0%)
  2008-04-25 00:00:00.0 First-quarter profits rose 27 percent at Arlington-based medical-device maker Wright Medical Group as sales increased across all...
  
  170.  Health Center's records go electronic with hardware, expertise assist from Buckman (0%)
  2008-04-25 00:00:00.0 Bob Buckman is a big believer in technology and in the Church Health Center. Leaders of the Church Health Center started lookin...
  
  171.  Schnee spreads VeinViewer 'wow' to world (0%)
  Today, he's vice president of global marketing for Memphis-based medical equipment com-pany Luminetx Corp., and he is pushing to place the firm's sign...
  
  172.  Renewed Medical Center Focus On Tap at Methodist (0%)
  2008-04-29 00:00:00.0 When a search committee at Methodist University Hospital started looking for a new CEO, they had a demanding wish list: someone...
  
  173.  Innova Memphis Inc. Makes First Investment In arGentis Pharmaceuticals (0%)
  Innova Memphis Inc, the early-stage investment fund created by Memphis Bioworks Foundation, made its first investment. After months of diligently goi...
  
  174.  The Day After Today (0%)
  That's why it took the city's biggest players, unified and organized, to move the ball forward effectively on MemphisED, the economic development port...
  
  175.  LaunchMemphis seeks to match investors with local entrepreneurs (0%)
  LaunchMemphis, a group of local technology leaders, aims to change that by connecting investors to startup companies and Memphis entrepreneurs. In a...
  
  176.  LaunchMemphis events will build up ties among entrepreneurs (0%)
  The event will be run by Startup Weekend LLC, a new company based in Fort Wayne, Ind., that has organized similar events in cities including New York...
  
  177.  Planting seeds for a bio future (0%)
  Bioworks is outsourcing the organizational efforts for the AgBio initiative to BioDimensions, a Memphis-based consulting group that focuses on agricul...
  
  178.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation Launches Aggressive AgBio Focus (0%)
  2008-05-12 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, May 12, 2008 - As a key component of the Memphis Fast Forward initiative, the Memphis Bioworks Foundation ha...
  
  179.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation LaunchesAggressive AgBio Focus (0%)
  2008-05-12 00:00:00.0 As a key component of the Memphis Fast Forward initiative, the Memphis Bioworks Foundation has announced the formation of a dedi...
  
  180.  arGentis licenses eye treatment (0%)
  2008-05-12 00:00:00.0 arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC has licensed a third treatment for dry eye syndrome. ARG103 will broaden the reach of arGentis' tr...
  
  181.  University of Memphis Putting the best face forward (0%)
  2008-05-12 00:00:00.0 Dr. Charles Blaha is the face of a high-octane effort to increase the University of Memphis' status as a center of research. Re...
  
  182.  GTx potential outweighs losses (0%)
  GTx is testing whether 20-milligram dose of the drug Acapodene prevents prostate cancer in men who have a precancerous lesion. GTx is negotiating wit...
  
  183.  Memphis Bioworks Heads to the Farm (0%)
  BioDimensions brings a wealth of expertise in critical areas of AgBio that will jump-start the foundation in this critical area, said Steve Bares, pr...
  
  184.  Wright buys A.M. Surgical products (0%)
  2008-06-11 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group is tightening its grip on the market for foot and ankle surgery devices with a $2.1 million acquisition of...
  
  185.  Entrepreneurs get 10 minutes to persuade investors (0%)
  The event provided entrepreneurs and startup companies with a structured setting to pitch their ideas to venture capitalists and angel investors, one-...
  
  186.  Bio-initiative looking for a few good farmers (0%)
  2008-06-13 00:00:00.0 Pete Nelson and Hillary Spain are looking for a few good west Tennessee farmers - 25 to be exact - to participate in a new initi...
  
  187.  Regional plan to jump-start Delta's bioeconomy (0%)
  Powell, an organic chemist, former executive with Eastman Chemical Co., and consultant with BioDimensions, has been hired as the project leader for an...
  
  188.  Memphis Area Poised to be AgBio World Leader (0%)
  2008-06-23 00:00:00.0 06|23|08 - This month, Memphis Bioworks Foundation announced the creation of a dedicated AgBio initiative for our region. This...
  
  189.  InMotion Interns Serve More Than Coffee (0%)
  2008-07-02 00:00:00.0 A central mission at InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute is to recruit the scientists who will run Memphis medical research labs...
  
  190.  UT-Baptist Research Park in the National Development Spotlight (0%)
  2008-07-17 00:00:00.0 07|17|08 - Anyone driving down Union or Madison Avenues in the Memphis Medical District can t help but notice the activity on th...
  
  191.  St. Jude nabs $378K grant (0%)
  2008-07-22 00:00:00.0 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been awarded a $378,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to sup...
  
  192.  Tenn. to spend $40M on ethanol plant (0%)
  2008-07-24 00:00:00.0 DuPont and the University of Tennessee will partner to build a pilot-scale biorefinery in East Tennessee. The governor and the...
  
  193.  New crops tour at Agricenter (0%)
  2008-07-29 00:00:00.0 Memphis Bioworks Foundation and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture will host a new crops field tour on Aug. 6, at Agricente...
  
  194.  Medical device maker Wright has 21% sales growth (0%)
  It said it expected sales of $465 million to $470 million per share, up from $455 million to $465 million per share. Wright Medical earnings Wright M...
  
  195.  Innova Memphis invests in vaccine developer Vaxent (0%)
  2008-09-03 00:00:00.0 Innova Memphis Inc. has made its second investment, this time in Vaxent, a Memphis-based vaccine development company. Innova pr...
  
  196.  Ethanol plant fires economic engine (0%)
  2008-09-05 00:00:00.0 Ethanol Grain Processors LLC is preparing to open its $160 million corn-to-biofuel conversion plant near Obion, Tenn. The plant...
  
  197.  Innova Funds Vaccine Developer Vaxent (0%)
  2008-09-09 00:00:00.0

  MEMPHIS, Tennessee, September 3, 2008 – Innova Memphis Inc, an early stage investment fund, announced today it has inve...
  
  198.  Innova fund invests in vaccine group (0%)
  2008-09-09 00:00:00.0 Memphis venture capital company Innova is investing in a startup called Vaxent, which aims to make a vaccine for group A strepto...
  
  199.  InMotion: A Model for Recruitment to Memphis (0%)
  While we re building the buildings, we re working as hard if not harder to both grow new scientists in Memphis, and to recruit talented, knowledgeable...
  
  200.  Medical research project joins 2 firms (0%)
  2008-09-16 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based medical device startup Active Implants Corp. plans to start testing its products at the InMotion Musculoskeletal I...
  
  201.  UT Health Science Center planning $250 million upgrade in Memphis (0%)
  2008-09-24 00:00:00.0 University of Tennessee Health Science Center officials said Tuesday they'll address the problem of crumbling research space inf...
  
  202.  Initiative to diversify oilseed production (0%)
  The idea behind the Tennessee Oilseed Diversification Program, initiated by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation in conjunction with Frazier Barnes and Ass...
  
  203.  Alternative crops conference Nov. 12-13 in Memphis (0%)
  2008-10-06 00:00:00.0 AgBioworks, an initiative of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture are sponsoring an alte...
  
  204.  AgBioworks to Focus on Bioeconomy at New Crops Conference (0%)
  Foundation, will present a "New Crops Conference" in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. The program, titled "Planting Seeds fo...
  
  205.  Research Park making progress (0%)
  2008-10-10 00:00:00.0 UT-Baptist Research Park is inching its way to a 2017 finish line with the near completion of the $22 million Regional Biocontai...
  
  206.  Building a medical city (0%)
  2008-10-12 00:00:00.0 The cluster of hospitals, colleges and research institutions known as the Memphis medical district is thriving in many ways. Th...
  
  207.  GTx pharmaceutical company reports success with muscle drug (0%)
  2008-10-14 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based pharmaceutical company GTx Inc. announced promising results in a test of its experimental bone and muscle-building...
  
  208.  Biotech park source of future stability for local economy (0%)
  arGentis Pharmaceuticals LLC is another Memphis biotech baby that is busy with a $10 million-$12 million capital campaign and new clinical trials for...
  
  209.  Momentum revs up for arGentis (0%)
  The Memphis pharmaceutical company is now negotiating with a clinical research organization to begin a Phase II trial of its dry eye therapy. The com...
  
  210.  Conference to Promote Orthopedics Industry (0%)
  2008-10-21 00:00:00.0 The Musculoskeletal New Ventures Conference keeps Memphis at the forefront of the orthopedics industry by showcasing the city s...
  
  211.  Second Battelle study could identify new biotechnology areas Memphis can develop (0%)
  2008-10-24 00:00:00.0 The Memphis Bioworks Foundation is updating the map to its mission with another contracted study from the Battelle Technology Pa...
  
  212.  Sixth Annual Musculoskeletal New Ventures Conference to be Held October 28-29 (0%)
  2008-10-27 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, October 27, 2008 - Investors and entrepreneurs from around the world will be in Memphis October 28-29, 2008...
  
  213.  Expanding Orthopedics preparing to launch new implant devices from its Memphis HQ (0%)
  2008-10-31 00:00:00.0 Expanding Orthopedics, Inc., has dug into its new Memphis home and is looking to launch two products in the orthopedic implant m...
  
  214.  Bioworks examines paths to growth (0%)
  2008-10-31 00:00:00.0 Four years ago consulting group Battelle Technology Partnership Practice suggested that Memphis launch a lab to study diseases a...
  
  215.  Medical device industry displayed (0%)
  The companies hope to attract funding from the representatives of venture capital firms and large companies in attendance. "I thought it was a great...
  
  216.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation Launches New Professional Organization for Bioscience Professional (0%)
  Foundation has launched the Memphis Bioworks Business Association, a professional organization dedicated to advancing the bioscience industry in Memph...
  
  217.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation Launches New Professional Organization for Bioscience Professionals (0%)
  2008-11-10 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, November 10, 2008 - The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has launched the Memphis Bioworks Business Association,...
  
  218.  MASE - A Success Story for Students and the Community (0%)
  Like all charter schools in Tennessee, MASE takes students from schools that are failing to make adequate yearly progress and students that are failin...
  
  219.  Angel investor groups target Memphis start-up firms (0%)
  Plans for a likely angel network by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation are themselves in a start-up phase. Ken Woody, president of Bioworks' seed capita...
  
  220.  Conference Focuses on Alternative Crops (0%)
  2008-11-14 00:00:00.0 About 150 people involved in agribusiness came to Memphis this week for an alternative crops conference, including a sizeable co...
  
  221.  Employees in biosciences gain outlet to interact (0%)
  A revamped organization, the Memphis Bioworks Business Association, is holding its first meeting on Tuesday. The group plans to hold a series of lect...
  
  222.  Chamber seeks to end barrier for medical firms by changing equipment to inventory (0%)
  2008-12-26 00:00:00.0 With a new $5.3 million payment-in-lieu-of-taxes exemption in hand, medical device maker NuVasive, Inc., is ready to expand in M...
  
  223.  Innovative 50 Years Ago. Still Innovative Today (0%)
  In Fall 1958, 60 physicians started serving their patients at Baptist Hospital s new Medical Building located at the corner of Monroe and Dudley (20 S...
  
  224.  After years of research, tons of money, Memphis firm seeks FDA approval to sell Acapodene (0%)
  With that, Memphis-based pharmaceutical company GTx Inc. filed its first-ever application for federal approval to sell a new drug. Others warned that...
  
  225.  'Orphan' status lifts arGentis (0%)
  As officials from more than 20 European countries watched, Postlethwaite and a colleague launched into a prepared presentation about systemic sclerode...
  
  226.  Medical sales school greets students (0%)
  Once they're done with the coursework and dry runs in the school's mock operating room, they'll head out for jobs as orthopedic medical device sales r...
  
  227.  E. coli vaccine one step closer (0%)
  In a recent online edition of the scientific journal Nature, investigators from the Memphis Veterans Medical Center and the University of Tennessee He...
  
  228.  The Bioscience of Reversing Capital Flight (0%)
  Capital Flight is not a forgone conclusion for Memphis and the Memphis Region. Because what GTx brings to our local economy is jobs and financial inv...
  
  229.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation Announces the Launch of TECworks, an Entrepreneurship Development Organization (0%)
  2009-02-06 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, February 6, 2009 - The Memphis Bioworks Foundation today announced the creation of TECworks, an Entrepreneur...
  
  230.  Memphis Bioworks creates TECworks to aid development, funding of new businesses (0%)
  2009-02-06 00:00:00.0

  Memphis Bioworks Foundation has launched TECworks, a new program aimed at developing entrepreneurs through education and new...
  
  231.  Memphis Bioworks creates TECworks to aid development, funding of new businesses (0%)
  2009-02-06 00:00:00.0 Memphis Bioworks Foundation has launched TECworks, a new program aimed at developing entrepreneurs through education and new bus...
  
  232.  Can You Be a Thriving Bioscience Center without a Thriving Medical School? (0%)
  And, when one of the foundations of a community s economic future is in the biosciences particularly biomedical excellence a strong, vibrant, well-sup...
  
  233.  TTDC funds bioscience entrepreneurship initiative (0%)
  2009-02-10 00:00:00.0 Grant recipient Memphis Bioworks Foundation announced the funds will be used to launch TECworks, which will be led by Executive...
  
  234.  TTDC funds bioscience entrepreneurship initiative (0%)
  Since then, VNC conversations with tech-development executives indicate that knowledge gained through Memphis-based TECworks is likely to find its way...
  
  235.  Former Aurora Funds partner heads Tennessee's new TECworks (0%)
  2009-02-10 00:00:00.0

  NASHVILLE, TN — Former Durham, NC-based Aurora Funds partner Jan Bouten will head TECworks, an organization that will l...
  
  236.  TTDC funds bioscience entrepreneurship initiative (0%)
  He is the second Aurora Funds executive recruited to Tennessee in recent months, following Grant Jackson, who recently became a general partner at Nas...
  
  237.  Former Aurora Funds partner heads Tennessee's new TECworks (0%)
  2009-02-10 00:00:00.0 Former Durham, NC-based Aurora Funds partner Jan Bouten will head TECworks, an organization that will launch with a $270,000 gra...
  
  238.  Bioworks Adds Incubator Space, Expands Mentoring (0%)
  The Research Park is going up across Dudley Street, fr...
  
  239.  Bioworks Adds Incubator Space, Expands Mentoring (0%)
  2009-02-11 00:00:00.0 The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has added an additional 6,000 square feet of lab space and launched a new program to aid biotech...
  
  240.  Extremities unit in works (0%)
  2009-02-13 00:00:00.0 British medical device maker Smith & Nephew will enter the market for extremities surgery products this year with a shoulder dev...
  
  241.  GTx loss widens on higher costs (0%)
  The company receives income from its collaborations with larger drug companies Ipsen and Merck & Co. Inc. GTx reported it received $13.5 million in re...
  
  242.  Medtronic reports slower growth in spine business (0%)
  2009-02-17 00:00:00.0 The Memphis-based spine surgery unit of medical device giant Medtronic reported a relatively slow sales growth rate of 3 percent...
  
  243.  Medical-device company QFx ready to open with investment from Innova (0%)
  
  QFx has been operating in "stealth mode" to keep competitors from discovering its plans, said Ken Woody, president of venture-capital...
  
  244.  Medical-device company QFx ready to open with investment from Innova (0%)
  QFx has been operating in "stealth mode" to keep competitors from discovering its plans, said Ken Woody, president of venture-capital company Innova M...
  
  245.  InMotion researchers show off work in Vegas (0%)
  2009-03-03 00:00:00.0 Researchers at InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute have been productive lately -- they presented five scientific posters and led...
  
  246.  Bioworks to aid small businesses (0%)
  2009-03-05 00:00:00.0 Memphis has another new organization to help small companies develop: The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has hired former venture c...
  
  247.  Recession may curtail elective orthopedic procedures, revenues of implant makers (0%)
  Wright Medical Group, Inc., Smith & Nephew, Inc., and Medtronic, Inc., make replacement hips, knees and spinal products to treat back pain. Revenues...
  
  248.  MERI Begins $10M Captial Campaign (0%)
  2009-03-18 00:00:00.0 The Medical Education & Research Institute, which helps physicians learn about the latest surgical techniques and medical device...
  
  249.  Conferees will get to see Memphis' orthopedic clout (0%)
  On May 20, suppliers to the orthopedic industry are expected to arrive here for the ODT Forum, a gathering focused on orthopedic manufacturing. "It a...
  
  250.  Luminetx hires new CEO (0%)
  2009-03-18 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based medical equipment startup Luminetx Corp. has hired Richard Kindberg as CEO, opening the latest chapter in a small...
  
  251.  Boomer generation's active lifestyle should benefit orthopedic industry (0%)
  There were roughly 500,000 knee replacements and 175,000 hip replacements last year when not many baby boomers were getting replacements. Medicare ha...
  
  252.  Invention senses levels of anesthetic (0%)
  2009-03-20 00:00:00.0 Erno Lindner and his colleagues are designing a new chemical sensor that would help doctors measure how much of a powerful anest...
  
  253.  Economic Stimulus Can Be a Great Local Boost or a Complete National Bust (0%)
  Others run more along political criticisms, such as the recent editorial criticizing Senator Bob Corker for both lambasting the federal appropriations...
  
  254.  Hatching success: Business incubator helps startups get going, growing (0%)
  "We exist to nurture and support startups," said Gwin Scott, president of Emerge Memphis, a nonprofit business incubator. "In the last decade, we've...
  
  255.  NovaLign trauma device for broken bones gets FDA clearance (0%)
  2009-03-31 00:00:00.0

  Memphis-based NovaLign Orthopedics Inc. has won federal clearance to sell a trauma surgery product and is building up its sta...
  
  256.  NovaLign trauma device for broken bones gets FDA clearance (0%)
  2009-03-31 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based NovaLign Orthopedics Inc. has won federal clearance to sell a trauma surgery product and is building up its staff....
  
  257.  Memphis Fast Forward plan falling short (0%)
  
  That money is spread around eight different entities, including the Mid-South Minority Business Council, Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Innova, M...
  
  258.  Memphis Fast Forward plan falling short (0%)
  2009-04-10 00:00:00.0 MemphisED, the economic development portion of the ambitious Memphis Fast Forward plan, has fallen far short of its goals for jo...
  
  259.  Local researchers envision new jobs, labs, gear from science stimulus grants (0%)
  High-profile examples include drug company, GTx Inc., which is developing medicines based in part on research at University of Tennessee Health Scienc...
  
  260.  Innova funds two more biotech start-ups, eyeing technology firm (0%)
  2009-04-17 00:00:00.0 A year and a half after MemphisED breathed financial life into Innova, the technology incubator has invested in five companies a...
  
  261.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation's AgBio Farmer Network Announces Alternative Crops Initiative for Spring (0%)
  2009-04-29 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 29, 2009 - Farmers throughout West Tennessee will be planting a variety of alternative crops this spri...
  
  262.  Accredo boosts earnings for Medco (0%)
  2009-04-30 00:00:00.0 Accredo, the Memphis-based specialty pharmacy unit of Medco Health Solutions Inc., reported an impressive 21 percent increase in...
  
  263.  World BioBank gets personal with medicine (0%)
  Two examples of medicine getting personal can be found first at the World BioBank's tissue collection site. Another can be found at orthopedic surgeo...
  
  264.  Vaxent's Strep Throat Vaccine, StrepNovA, Named Finalist in World Vaccine Congress Competition (0%)
  2009-05-05 00:00:00.0 Innova Memphis Inc, an early stage investment fund, announced today that Vaxent, one of its Memphis-based investments, was recog...
  
  265.  Vaxent Named Finalist In World Vaccine Competition (0%)
  2009-05-06 00:00:00.0 The selection committee of the World Vaccine Congress put Vaxent--a startup venture in Memphis with only two employees--alongsid...
  
  266.  Vaxent Named Finalist In World Vaccine Competition (0%)
  2009-05-07 00:00:00.0 The selection committee of the World Vaccine Congress put Vaxent - a startup venture in Memphis with only two employees - alongs...
  
  267.  Entrepreneurism will pave recovery's path (0%)
  These include EmergeMemphis and its Technology Institute; LaunchMemphis; the Memphis Minority Business Council and its entrepreneur programs, and the...
  
  268.  Entrepreneurism Will Pave Recovery's Path (0%)
  These include EmergeMemphis and its Technology Institute; LaunchMemphis; the Memphis Minority Business Council and its entrepreneur programs, and the...
  
  269.  Harold Wingood Named Executive Director of Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering (0%)
  2009-05-15 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, May 15, 2009 - Harold M. Wingood has been appointed the Executive Director of the Memphis Academy of Science...
  
  270.  A New Day for King Cotton: Biotech and agribusiness redefine themselves (0%)
  2009-05-21 00:00:00.0 A tractor at the St. Francis County Farmer's Association Co-op in eastern Arkansas was being repaired on a cloudy spring day ear...
  
  271.  Transnetyx, Inc., preparing to double testing capacity (0%)
  Transnetyx CEO Bob Bean says growth in the European market has happened faster than we anticipated. Transnetyx won one of Memphis Business Journal s S...
  
  272.  Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis to build $7 million conference center (0%)
  2009-05-29 00:00:00.0 Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis will get a new, $7 million "front door" at its main campus with the construction of a conferen...
  
  273.  Wright Medical Group expanding cautiously (0%)
  Just last week, Wright Medical Group, the Arlington-based medical device maker, moved into a new building on Airline Road. But before investors get j...
  
  274.  Biocontainment lab means skilled jobs for Memphians (0%)
  2009-06-28 00:00:00.0 The opening of the new Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the UT-Baptist Research Park on Union last Monday marked a banner d...
  
  275.  Tennessee Builds Biotech Base With Less Fanfare (0%)
  With research hospitals, a medical university, an established medical device industry and other facilities, Memphis has a head start on cities that ar...
  
  276.  Lifeblood veteran forms Key Biologics (0%)
  2009-07-06 00:00:00.0 Former Lifeblood CEO Edward Scott has purchased the nonprofit's biological services division, now called Key Biologics LLC, at a...
  
  277.  InMotion launches name change, prepares for fundraising campaign (0%)
  2009-07-24 00:00:00.0 With a new name and a new game plan, InMotion Orthopedic Research Center is preparing for a local fundraising campaign in a "per...
  
  278.  Entrepreneurship MBA to launch at U of M (0%)
  2009-07-25 00:00:00.0 As dean of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis, Rajiv Grover considers himself one of th...
  
  279.  Innova Funds University of Memphis MBA Student Companies (0%)
  2009-07-27 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 21, 2009 Innova Memphis Inc, an early stage investment fund, announced today it has committed to invest...
  
  280.  MASE Gets Well Deserved Recognition in Tennessee (0%)
  2009-07-27 00:00:00.0 Earlier this summer, the Tennessee Legislature passed a resolution officially recognizing the accomplishment of MASE (Memphis Ac...
  
  281.  Innova to Invest in Student Business Projects (0%)
  2009-07-29 00:00:00.0 Innova Memphis Inc. will invest $12,500 in seed money to each of the companies launched by four students selected for a new "Ent...
  
  282.  Cell therapy research runs on samples taken by Key Biologics (0%)
  The firm is among only a handful of companies worldwide to provide the biotech industry with the live blood samples it needs to conduct clinical trial...
  
  283.  Accredo shows strong second quarter (0%)
  2009-07-30 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based Accredo Health Group, the pharmacy division of Medco Health Solutions that produces speciality drugs, reported a r...
  
  284.  Wright Medical posts earnings increase (0%)
  2009-08-04 00:00:00.0 The Arlington-based orthopedic device company Wright Medical Group on Monday reported a second-quarter increase in net income to...
  
  285.  Luminetx Competitor Agrees To License VeinViewer Patent (0%)
  2009-08-04 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based Luminetx Corp. and Accuvein LLC of Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., announced Monday that they have reached a settlement...
  
  286.  Research park to add specialty laboratory equipped with vivarium for test animals (0%)
  2009-08-07 00:00:00.0 The next project to be built at the UT-Baptist Research Park will be a $20 million specialty laboratory with a full-service viva...
  
  287.  Accredo soars in 'tough' market (0%)
  Although Accredo president Steve Fitzpatrick says the specialty pharmaceutical market has been "tough" and that the recession has had a "negative" imp...
  
  288.  Orthopedics sales wannabes endure rigorous training for high-demand jobs (0%)
  2009-08-13 00:00:00.0 Medical device sales reps may be plentiful, but finding one who knows a hip bone from a meniscus is a challenge for orthopedic c...
  
  289.  Minister-Doctors Marry Medicine, Faith (0%)
  Best of both worlds Morris is associate pastor at St. John s United Methodist Church and the founder of the Church Health Center. Robinson is the sen...
  
  290.  Coffee Break: Medtronic device for spine is first of its kind (0%)
  2009-08-18 00:00:00.0 Medtronic Inc. has announced the U.S. launch of a vertebral body replacement device intended for use in the thoracic and lumbar...
  
  291.  Study finds potential for Mississippi Delta to join global bioeconomy (0%)
  2009-08-25 00:00:00.0 The U.S.'s Mississippi Delta Region can secure a leadership role in the $140 billion global bioeconomy by leveraging its agricul...
  
  292.  Study reveals potential for burgeoning regional bio-economy (0%)
  2009-08-25 00:00:00.0 A bio-based study of 98 counties in the Delta region of the Mid-South has revealed 25,000 "green" jobs can be created in the nex...
  
  293.  Memphis' and the Mississippi Delta's Opportunity in the $140 Billion Bioeconomy Highlighted in 5-State Regional Study (0%)
  Foundation today announced the conclusion of the "Regional Strategy for Biobased Products in the Mississippi Delta," a 5-state, 98-county examination...
  
  294.  Study: Local Agbio Sector Could Create 50,000 Jobs (0%)
  2009-08-27 00:00:00.0 The fertile lands that surround Memphis could generate as much as $8 billion a year in the emerging bioeconomy as petroleum-base...
  
  295.  Regional Strategy for a Biobased Economy (0%)
  2009-08-27 00:00:00.0 BioDimensions and the Memphis Bioworks Foundation have launched a massive strategic plan for green jobs in the Mid-South. In co...
  
  296.  Mid-South Has 'Bioeconomy' Potential -- 36 Million Acres of Crop Space is Asset, Study Finds (0%)
  The economic development group now claims that Memphis and the 98- county region around it have the potential to be a leader in producing bio-based pr...
  
  297.  What Green Looks Like (0%)
  The study found that a bioeconomy could support more than 25,000 green jobs in the next decade, and more than 50,000 in the next two decades, in the M...
  
  298.  Inside the Newsroom: Plans nurture habits of city success (0%)
  Rather than being a chapter in "The 7 Seven Habits of Highly Successful Cities," the cover of a Memphis book might be titled "Memphis: How It's Always...
  
  299.  Study envisions $8B economy from Delta bioscience (0%)
  2009-08-31 00:00:00.0 MEMPHIS A study by a Memphis nonprofit group proposes major changes in the way agricultural land in the Delta is used to create...
  
  300.  EHealth Alliance hopes for federal funds (0%)
  2009-09-02 00:00:00.0 The Memphis-based Mid-South eHealth Alliance has joined a statewide e-health effort to try to cash in on the nearly $2 billion s...
  
  301.  UTHSC Chancellor Resigns Top Job (0%)
  Dr. Steve J. Schwab will serve as interim chancellor while University of Tennessee system officials search for a permanent replacement. Schwab, the i...
  
  302.  Wright Medical launches Australian subsidiary, signs distribution deal (0%)
  2009-09-23 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group Inc. has launched an Australian subsidiary for direct sales of its extremities and biologics products. The...
  
  303.  Researchers Discover Each Other At Bioworks Lectures (0%)
  Last week, a pharmaceutical researcher from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and an orthopedic surgeon from Campbell Clinic took turns at a podiu...
  
  304.  Expo educates job seekers to career changes (0%)
  So it seemed fitting Thursday that the famous Memphis entrepreneur's pink Georgian marble mansion -- the Pink Palace -- on Central Avenue was the site...
  
  305.  GeneIndexer launch opens with cash contest (0%)
  So, when the company launches its campaign this week, it will target academic and nonprofit research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, biotech c...
  
  306.  Christian Brothers University program grows new generation of engineers (0%)
  2009-09-30 00:00:00.0 On a Midtown Memphis university campus, students in uniform polo shirts quietly click on computers to create 3-D designs. Eight...
  
  307.  Coffee Break: Two local firms may get state tax credits (0%)
  2009-10-13 00:00:00.0 Two Memphis investment firms have been named finalists in the search for the first TNInvestcos, state-supported investment compa...
  
  308.  Medical corridor development projects air of viability in Memphis community (0%)
  There is currently $1.5 billion worth of development under way in the medical corridor ranging from a parking garage at the University of Tennessee He...
  
  309.  Coffee Break:St. Jude on list of best (0%)
  2009-10-28 00:00:00.0 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named to The Scientist magazine's top 10 list of "Best Places to Work in Academia...
  
  310.  Bredesen courts China, touts West Tennessee Megasite (0%)
  2009-10-28 00:00:00.0 NASHVILLE -- Nearing the end of a 10-day trade mission to China, Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday he believes Tennessee businesse...
  
  311.  Memphis' muddled Workforce Investment Network at risk of state takeover (0%)
  Blair Taylor, president of the business group Memphis Tomorrow, said it is crucial to get WIN on the right footing. Recently, WIN and the city Office...
  
  312.  UTHSC gets $2.5M NIH grant for nicotine research (0%)
  A team of six researchers in two departments won the Grand Opportunity Grant from the National Institutes of Health. Sharp said 2,600 research teams...
  
  313.  Rise in sales bolsters Wright Medical (0%)
  2009-10-30 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group Inc. pointed to the higher end of its projected sales range of $475 million to $485 million for the year on...
  
  314.  Accredo's vigorous business helps the specialty pharmacy expand (0%)
  With a new 10-year, 240,000-square-foot lease deal in hand, the specialty pharmaceutical division of Medco Health Solutions Inc. will improve its Cent...
  
  315.  Memphis venture capital firm Innova to participate in state program (0%)
  2009-11-04 00:00:00.0 Memphis-based Innova Fund II, LP has been selected as one of six venture capital firms to participate in the TNInvestco program,...
  
  316.  Memphis Bioworks arm named as TNInvestco finalist (0%)
  As part of the selection, Innova Fund II LP, the seed capital arm of Memphis Bioworks Foundation, will receive an allocation of $20 million in tax cre...
  
  317.  Luminetx, Buckman chosen as 2009 Global Business honorees (0%)
  2009-11-04 00:00:00.0 Luminetx and Buckman have been selected 2009 Global Business Award recipients by the Greater Memphis Chamber International Busin...
  
  318.  Accredo profits healthy as Medco division continues to see growth (0%)
  2009-11-04 00:00:00.0 Accredo Health Group Inc. notched another record-breaking quarter with more than $2.4 billion in sales, a 19.2 percent surge ove...
  
  319.  Tennessee Ranks 5th for Business Climate (0%)
  2009-11-05 00:00:00.0 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Site Selection magazine has ranked Tennessee among the five best states in the country for business clim...
  
  320.  Innova Selected for TNInvestco Status and $20 Million in Credit Allocations (0%)
  The Tennessee Small Business Investment Company Credit Act was signed into law in July, 2009 and offers $120 million in gross premiums tax credits to...
  
  321.  Innova Courts Insurance Cos. For $20 Million (0%)
  2009-11-09 00:00:00.0 Instead of taking it easy during the holidays, Innova officials will be calling on the corporate offices of insurance companies...
  
  322.  TNInvestco Designation is Another Step Toward a Bioscience Center of Excellence in Memphis (0%)
  2009-11-10 00:00:00.0 Last week, INNOVA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, was selected for TNInvestco Status, granting th...
  
  323.  Collaboration brings $30 Million in New Markets Tax Credits to Memphis (0%)
  2009-11-10 00:00:00.0 Memphis Bioworks Foundation and the City of Memphis today announced they have received an allocation of $30 million in New Marke...
  
  324.  Memphis Bioworks Foundation is awarded $30M in tax credits (0%)
  2009-11-11 00:00:00.0 Memphis and the Memphis Bioworks Foundation have added $30 million in tax credits to their hooks for luring investors to Memphis...
  
  325.  City, Bioworks Receive $30 Million In Tax Credits (0%)
  2009-11-11 00:00:00.0 The Memphis Bioworks Foundation and the city of Memphis have new incentives to lure private investment to struggling areas with...
  
  326.  Meridian Bioscience Reports Record Sales (0%)
  2009-11-13 00:00:00.0 Meridian Bioscience Reports Record Sales Meridian Biosience, which has its Life Science operation in Memphis, reported Thursday...
  
  327.  Medtronic to open new $65M Memphis distribution center (0%)
  One building, which is 157,000 square feet, was new construction designed to accommodate an expansion of 300,000 to 400,000 square feet. The other bu...
  
  328.  Wright Medical's chief financial officer will leave in December (0%)
  2009-11-17 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group Inc. chief financial officer John K. Bakewell will leave the company in December. Lance A. Berry will take...
  
  329.  FedEx unveils 'smart package' to track high-value shipments (0%)
  Developed by FedEx innovation labs in Memphis, it features a device that is placed in packages or pallets of freight and coupled with a Web-based plat...
  
  330.  New distribution facility brings Medtronic, surgeons closer (0%)
  Medtronic ships about 2,000 surgical kits from the Swinnea facility every day, Cambre said. Steve La Neve, president of the Memphis-based Spinal and...
  
  331.  No Time to Lose In Biotech Shipping (0%)
  That s why Tissue Banks International, Accredo Health Group Inc., DDN and other biotechnology firms choose to do business in Memphis, company official...
  
  332.  Memphis Companies Tap Into Renewable Energy Sources (0%)
  The biggest news story surrounding local businesses going green involves shipping giant FedEx Corp., whose president and CEO Fred Smith earlier this y...
  
  333.  TNInvestco program provides critical funding to plant entrepreneurial growth (0%)
  Finalists in the program were recently announced, including Memphis-based Innova Fund II, the only one from West Tennessee. The TNInvestco program wi...
  
  334.  Coffee Break: S&N putty to treat troops (0%)
  2009-11-24 00:00:00.0 Smith & Nephew PLC will develop a "fracture putty" for the Department of Defense that may lead to new ways to treat battlefield...
  
  335.  Coffee Break: Wright offers Valor nail (0%)
  2009-11-24 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group Inc. has launched a limited release of a new product, the Valor Ankle Fusion Nail. The nail holds together...
  
  336.  Coffee Break: iMagDent will open here (0%)
  The Tennessee Health Services Development Agency approved the company's request to open its office in the Atrium One building at 6800 Poplar. The off...
  
  337.  Medtronic's revenue up 8 percent in third quarter (0%)
  2009-11-25 00:00:00.0 Spurred by growth across all of its business units, Medtronic Inc. reported $3.8 billion in revenues during the third quarter, a...
  
  338.  Coffee Break: Wright Medical Group wins knee implant judgment (0%)
  2009-12-03 00:00:00.0 Wright Medical Group Inc. has won a summary judgment in a patent infringement case involving knee implants. Howmedica, which is...
  
  339.  Luminetx to sell company's assets to Christie Digital Systems (0%)
  2009-12-04 00:00:00.0 Luminetx Corp.'s board of directors has agreed to sell the company's assets to Japan-based Christie Digital Systems Inc. The ac...