MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2006--Asthmatx, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a novel procedure for the treatment of asthma, today announced that researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have joined more than 30 research centers worldwide in the AIR2 Clinical Trial studying Bronchial Thermoplasty, an investigational out-patient procedure to treat asthma.