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Facilities
InMotion's
6,000 square-foot facility includes several laboratories. The first,
named the Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation Laboratory, will be a
wet lab where work will include cell analysis and tissue engineering.
This laboratory also will house InMotion's clinical studies.
The second
laboratory is the Medtronic Laboratory, named after Founding Funder,
Medtronic Spinal and Biologics Division. 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
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Advancing Musculoskeletal
Discoveries
The Campbell Foundation and Campbell Clinic, with the
urging of Memphis Tomorrow and the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, had taken a
leading role in the creation of a new type of research facility, one that would
continue Memphis' growth as a biomedical powerhouse, and that would align the
city's assets in the field of musculoskeletal research and treatment.
InMotion Musculoskeletal Research Institute's (InMotion)
goal is to bring translational orthopaedic research to Memphis. Translational
research transports innovative research into the clinic, so that patients
benefit directly from that research. InMotion's slogan aptly describes its
mission: "From research to reality."
The Campbell Foundation, along with the Hyde
Family Foundation and the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, has provided start-up
money for InMotion. The Campbell Foundation has also provided office space and
human resources support for InMotion employees, as well as development expertise
to fund the institute's research.
At full strength, InMotion will provide a nexus of
collaborative efforts among orthopaedic surgeons and researchers who might not
have worked together in other settings. Plans for InMotion include providing
research and development for orthopaedic technology companies such as Smith &
Nephew, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, DePuy Orthopaedics, and Wright Medical Group,
as well as education efforts such as assisting UT-Campbell Clinic in training
its residents in research design.
MMRI Goes InMotion
The Memphis Musculoskeletal Research Institute has
changed its name to the InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute. This new name
reflects InMotion's mission to reduce disability and to improve mobility for the
musculoskeletal patient through translational research. "The new name conveys
the excitement, enthusiasm, and commitment that the Memphis community has
brought to this endeavor," says Dick Tarr, InMotion Executive Director. "The
collaboration between InMotion and local universities, hospitals, clinics and
industry provides a new paradigm for translational medicine by effectively and
efficiently forming partnerships to move research to reality in the care of the
musculoskeletal patient."
Board of Directors
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Dr. Steven J. Bares, President and
Executive Director of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation;
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Dr. James H. Beaty, Chief of Staff,
Campbell Clinic and Professor of the UT-Campbell Clinic Department
of Orthopaedic Surgery;
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Jack Blair, former Smith & Nephew
group president of North America and Japan;
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Dr. S. Terry Canale, Boyd Professor
and Chair of the UT-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery;
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Dr. Leonard "Rusty" Johnson,
Professor and Interim Vice Chancellor of Research at the University
of Tennessee Health Science Center
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J. R. "Pitt" Hyde, III, founder of
AutoZone;
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Dr. Shirley Raines, President of the
University of Memphis; and
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Jon Serbousek, President of Medtronic
Sofamor Danek
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