*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************
St. Jude Medical Inc., a medical device company, said it plans to exercise an option to acquire all of Atlanta-based CardioMEMS now that CardioMEMS’ heart failure monitoring device has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
CardioMEMS was founded in 2001 by cardiologist Jay Yadav and Mark Allen, a Georgia Tech nanotechnology professor. It has grown from a small office near Georgia Tech to a large laboratory near Coca-Cola’s headquarters on North Avenue. in northwest Atlanta
