Press Releases

2007

March

UT-BAPTIST / Groundbreaking planned for UT-Baptist's planned expansion

MEDTRONIC / Medtronic's Infuse gets nod from FDA

INMOTION MUSCLOSKELETAL INSTITUTE / InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute opens its first laboratory at 20 South Dudley

February

ST. JUDE / St. Jude team finds brain cancer secret

NuVASIVE / NuVasive acquires biologic product platform

SCHERING-PLOUGH / Schering-Plough, Anacor ink deal

MEDTRONIC / New Medtronic product promises less-invasive spinal surgery

January

MEMPHIS BIOWORKS FOUNDATION / Memphis Bioworks signs formal agreement with UTHSC

IN MOTION MUSCLOSKELETAL INSTITUTE / InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute Announces Selling of Naming Rights to Baptist, Medtronic

DELTA PINE & LAND / Detal Pine & Land, Monsanto merger approved

arGENTIS / arGentis Licenses Second Therapy for Dry Eye Syndrome

Smith & Nephew / Smith & Nephew announces court action upholding fixation nail injunction

2006

December

GTX / GTx Announces Registered Direct Common Stock Offering of $60.8 Million

MEMPHIS BIOFUELS / Memphis Biofuels Opens as major Biodiesel Source

UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER / UTHSC Researcher Awarded NIH Grant to Discover How to Prevent Respirator Lung Injury

ST. JUDE / Aggressive Stem cells might improve transplant outcome 

ST. JUDE / Cancer drug side effect caused by cell "pump" problem

November

MEDTRONIC / Medtronic Wins Appeals Court Ruling on Largest Pedicle Screw Lines

INMOTION / Baptist Signs on as partner with InMotion

ST. JUDE / St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment

October

ST. JUDE / St. Jude named No. 1 in Best Places to Work in Academia

MEMPHIS BIOWORKS FOUNDATION / Memphis Bioworks Foundation named best small company to work for in Memphis

ST. JUDE / Cell wall of pneumonia bacteria can cause heart damage

ST. JUDE / New hope for children when leukemia treatment fails

September

GTX / GTx to Host Conference Call to Discuss Partnership With Ipsen for European Rights of ACAPODENE

MEDTRONIC / Medtronic to Aid Treatment of Older Adults Through Aging Spine Care Program

MEDTRONIC / FDA Approves Clinical Trial for Medtronic’s DIAM Spinal Stabilization System

ST. JUDE / St. Jude finds clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy

August

UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER / Nearly $3 Million NIH Grant to UTHSC Professor Focuses on Early Predictors of Diabetes and Role of Race/Ethnicity

ST. JUDE / Solution to bacterial mystery promises new drugs

ST. JUDE / 3-D forms link antibiotic resistance and brain disease

ST. JUDE / Discovery in "Bubble Boy" disease gene therapy

July

ST. JUDE / Anemic children with cancer benefit from Erythropoietin

ST. JUDE / Leukemia gene normally has mammary gland function