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The multimillion-dollar 49,000-square-foot Research and Innovation Center that DePuy dedicated last week in Warsaw marks the company's continuing commitment to cutting-edge orthopaedics.
DePuy, a Johnson & Johnson company, started in 1895 when Revra DePuy invented new ways to treat broken bones, including the fiber splint and the wire frame metal mesh splint
Now researchers are finding ways to regenerate tissue, use computers to guide surgeons on bone implants and deliver drugs with the implants to relieve the pain and prevent infection from the surgeries.
We always had research and development" says Dick Tarr, vice president for worldwide research and emerging technologies, who remembers the small lab space at DePuy when he joined in 1985.
"In '88, we moved to 10,000 square feet of lab space," he says. "That was the beginning of the new labs."
The company added another 10,000 stare feet in the early 1990s, but became crowded when Johnson & Johnson moved workers to Warsaw after it bought the company in 1998.
It added 34,000 square feet to the back of the lab last year, with 5,000 square feet...