MERI Expands its Facilities

If you haven't heard of the Medical Education and Research Institute ("MERI"), you've missed out on a vitally important economic engine for Memphis' orthopedic industry. Orthopedic companies need to try out their devices to get them FDA approved and need to conduct training on the devices that they develop. MERI gives them the opportunity to do that with bodies that have been donated to science. As the orthopedic industry in Memphis has grown, so has the demand for MERI's educational services. There's an article in the April 18 - 24 Memphis Business Journal that announces that MERI is expanding its local facilities so that it can host more large scale educational programs. This is great news for our local biomedical and orthopedic industries. Non-profits like MERI are vital to the Memphis Biomedical Research Zone initiative.