8-K

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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
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                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT
     PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 6, 2003


                         SYNOVIS LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

                        State of Incorporation: Minnesota
                 I.R.S. Employer Identification No.: 41-1526554

         Address of principal executive offices: 2575 University Ave. W.
                                                 St. Paul, Minnesota 55114

                        Telephone Number: (651) 603-3700

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Item 5.  Other Events and Regulation FD Disclosure.

         On November 6, 2003, Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. (Synovis) issued a
press release announcing the promotion of Fariborz Boor Boor to executive vice
president.

         A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1. Synovis
will also publish the press release, including the supplemental information
contained therein, on its website www.synovislife.com.


Item 7.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(c)      Exhibits.

         (99.1)   Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. News Release dated November
                  6, 2003.



                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                              SYNOVIS LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

                                              By: /s/ Connie L. Magnuson
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November 6, 2003                                  Connie L. Magnuson
                                                  Vice-President of Finance and
                                                  Chief Financial Officer





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EX-99.1

                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1




FROM:                                    FOR:
Padilla Speer Beardsley Inc.             Synovis Life Technologies, Inc.
1101 West River Parkway                  2575 University Ave.
Minneapolis, Minn. 55415                 St. Paul, Minn. 55114

CONTACT:                                 CONTACT:
Nancy A. Johnson/Marian Briggs           Karen Gilles Larson, President and CEO
(612)455-1745/ (612)455-1742             Connie L. Magnuson, CFO
njohnson@psbpr.com/                             (651) 603-3700
mbriggs@psbpr.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SYNOVIS LIFE TECHNOLOGIES PROMOTES FARIBORZ BOOR BOOR TO EXECUTIVE VICE
PRESIDENT


         ST. PAUL, Minn., November 6, 2003 -- Synovis Life Technologies (NASDAQ:
SYNO), has promoted Fariborz Boor Boor, age 45, to executive vice president,
effective immediately. He has served as president and chief operating officer of
Synovis Interventional Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary, since 2000 and
joined the company in 1998. In his new position, the interventional business
management will report to Boor Boor and he will build his involvement with
Synovis' surgical business.

         "It is with great pleasure that we announce Fariborz' promotion," said
Karen Gilles Larson, Synovis Life Technologies president and chief executive
officer. "Under Fariborz' leadership, our interventional business has grown
spectacularly, to $24.0 million for the first nine months of fiscal 2003 from
$8.8 million for all of fiscal 2000. He has motivated his team to provide
customers with best-in-class engineering services, project management and
quality high-volume manufacturing. As a result, the interventional business has
a strong and growing customer base."

         Boor Boor has more than 25 years of production management experience.
Prior to joining Synovis, he served as quality assurance manager at Plastech
Corporation in Rush City, Minn., and as division services manager at Phillips
Plastics Corporation in Chippewa Falls,

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Wis. Boor Boor holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and business
administration from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.

ABOUT SYNOVIS LIFE TECHNOLOGIES

         Synovis Life Technologies, Inc., based in St. Paul, Minn., is a
diversified medical device company engaged in developing, designing,
manufacturing and bringing to market medical devices for the surgical and
interventional treatment of disease. For additional information on Synovis Life
Technologies and its businesses, visit the company's Web site at
www.synovislife.com.

         Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. The statements can be identified by words such as "should",
"may", "will", "expect", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "continue", or
other similar expressions. Certain important factors that could cause results to
differ materially from those anticipated by the forward-looking statements made
herein include the timing of product introductions, the number of certain
surgical procedures performed and the level of orders from contract
manufacturing customers. A full discussion of factors can be found in the
company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 31, 2002.

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