For more information, contact:
Jennifer Larkey or Joe Hall
The Ingram Group/Memphis
Phone: (901) 312-9191

See related news release: New Memphis Biotech Foundation Will Develop Research Park On Former Baptist Medical Center Campus

Memphis, Tenn., April 25, 2001

The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit, independent research and educational institution with groundbreaking programs in cancer and AIDS research, structural biology, genetics, infectious disease research, developmental biology, and transgenic science. It employs about 750 people and its mission is two-fold: to improve human health and welfare and extend the boundaries of knowledge for future generations. The Whitehead Institute is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in its teaching activities and provides advanced scientific training to more than 300 visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students around the world. It is physically located in close proximity to MIT.

The University of Colorado-Boulder
The University of Colorado-Boulder Research Park is a 270,000-square-foot research facility located within The University of Colorado. The University of Colorado has the distinction of being one of 45 public institutions in the nation honored with the rank of research university, level 1 by the Carnegie Foundation. Tenants are able to tap into the research wealth of one of the leading universities in the country as well as form valuable research partnerships with the university. The Research Park currently has more than 900 separate research investigations in progress in a variety of areas such as biotechnology, environmental and space sciences and telecommunications.

The Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation
In 1994, Giovanni Armenise established The Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation to support research basic to medicine and agriculture. The Foundation funds six biomedical centers in areas such as cancer research, genetics and molecular biology and provides grant and fellowship programs at Harvard Medical School. In addition, the Foundation supports neurological research at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as hosting a series of international symposia designed to allow American and Italian scientists to share their work and ideas.

Texas Medical Center Research Campus- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
In November of 1999, University of Texas System regents approved a plan for $641 million worth of construction projects at UT's two health institutions in Texas. This includes $426.9 million at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and $214.4 million at the UT Health Science Center, as well as $88 million at the UT Medical Branch in Galveston. The goal is to create an integrated research campus among multiple Texas Medical Center academic institutions. A new Basic Science Research Building for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, scheduled to open in 2003, will be the first building on the new Texas Medical Center Research Campus. The nine-story BSRB facility will house six floors of basic science laboratories, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (a shared program of M.D. Anderson and UT-Houston) and indoor walkways for connection of M.D. Anderson to St. Luke's Episcopal School and Baylor.

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