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3D Printing for Cardiovascular System
The cardiovascular system indisputably dictates the fitness level and longevity of any individual. It is also one of the top killers and debilitating conditions of modern human beings no matter...
3D Printing for Veterinary Medicine
According to American Pet Product Association (APPA), the current pet-related product industry is worth more than 100 billion dollars, where one-third is veterinary-related products based...
Post Processing for Healthcare 3D Printing
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Biomaterials for 3D Printing
ed solutions for healthcare. In this webinar, we invited stakeholders from academia, industry, larger chemical and material companies, and rising startups to give you a comprehensive view of where...
Dental 3D Printing: Pioneers and Rulebreakers
Dentistry seems to be the potential breakthrough industry to manifest many 3D printing enthusiastsâ dream of mass customization, point of care delivery, and local manufacturing hub for dental...
Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing for medical devices is continually on the rise as physicians, technologists, and researchers are increasingly taking advantage of the technologyâs boundless flexibility. 3D...
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in 3D Printing
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Orthopedic 3D Printing
This event also serves to network freely and to connect Pitch3D start-ups and investors during the breakout session, you can apply here. The on-demand recording will also be...
3D Scanning
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Interview with Carmine Gentile: 3D Bioprinting Mini Hearts
Dr. Carmine Gentile, PharmD/Ph.D., FAHA, received his BSc/MSc (Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technologies) and PharmD at the University of Pisa, Italy and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences...
Guide: 3D Printed Stents
With trending minimally invasive preference in treating a myriad of diseases, intraluminal stent technologies are rightfully gaining attention. Some of the world's biggest medical device companies...
Raphael Lichtnecker: Bioprinting at Puredyne, ViscoTec
Raphael Lichtnecker: I got my MasterÂŽs degree in Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering at Technical University Munich. Afterwards I started as Business Development Manager at ViscoTec where I...
Michael Peirone: Victoria Hand Project
Michael Peirone started volunteering with Victoria Hand Project when it was still a university research project, and has seen it grow across the world. Through his years with VHP, Michael has...
Dr. Karolina Valente: VoxCell BioInnovation
Dr. Karolina Valente has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. She has deep expertise in tissue engineering, 3D bioprinting, and oncology. Karolina...
Dr. Stephen Ryan: PolyUnity Tech
Dr. Stephen Ryan is a practicing physician and co-founder of PolyUnity Tech. He has explored Additive Manufacturing applications in healthcare for over 6 years as a researcher and entrepreneur....
Expert's Corner
Guide: 3D Printed Stents
With trending minimally invasive preference in treating a myriad of diseases, intraluminal stent technologies are rightfully gaining attention. Some of the world's biggest medical device companies (Boston Scientific, Medtronics, Abbot, Cook, etc) also hold the largest portfolios of stents. When stents have been applied to human disease from head to toe, most conversations revolve around vascular stents, since it is the most common application. However, stents have been produced for other body parts, including the airways, the gut, the biliary system, and technically any anatomy that has a tubular structure. However, given the ability of 3D printing (a.k.a. additive manufacturing technologies) to provide personalizable medical devices with much more complex designs, 3D printed stents have been the latest focus of many device researchers and entrepreneurs around the world. The additional driving force behind commercializing 3D printed stents also includes the current unit economics of 3D printing technology. The intrinsic limitation of build size, advancements in microfabrication techniques, and a growing portfolio of bioresorbable and biocompatible materials. Of course, the same set of "potential" advantages is also where technological advancements are needed to reach the final destination. In this article, we intend to break down the medical stent industry, summarizing the current status and future development of this exciting device.
The Ultimate Resource Center for Healthcare 3D Printing
Many years ago, I first encountered 3D printing (a.k.a. additive manufacturing) at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). I remember the 3D-printed anatomical models passed around during the presentation: one for presurgical planning for a complicated meningioma involving adjacent vital blood vessels, and the other for congenital heart disease with various visualization orientations created through creative modular design. That was the eureka moment when I understood that while radiologists sit at the interface of the digital world (CT, MRI, US data) and physical world, 3D printing and perhaps its extension like AR/VR, can provide the ultimate bridge to understand and create new realities for the medical industry. However, the ecosystem of healthcare 3D printing was not yet formalized, and I founded 3DHEALS to help me and others with the struggles of early adaptors. This blog post serves as a resource center to organize all the past knowledge industrial experts and 3DHEALS have collected and shared. They include our way of dissecting the concept of "healthcare 3D printing", basic concepts that most of you will need to know, and how to dive deeper into this fascinating world that we all grow to love. We will keep updating this Healthcare 3D Printing Resource Center page as they come in. Please feel free to send your request on what needs to be included to: info@3dheals.com.
Rethinking Bioprinting for Sustainable Bioelectronics
Bioprinting has been a promising additive manufacturing technology that has proven its competency for biomaterials, cells, tissues, and human organs. Through manipulation of pre-, post-printing processes, bioprinting has been able to find wide applications in drug development, fabrication of organs, tissue engineering, wound management, treatment, etc. However, these are the fields that traditionally fit into the application area of bioprinting.
2021 Investing Trends to Pitch3D Startups
In 2021, 3DHEALS helped eleven early-stage startups in healthcare 3D printing, bioprinting, adjacent 3D technology space with raising seed to series A rounds through the Pitch3D program. Pitch3D is a fundraising platform facing selected institutional investors so that founders can save time on fundraising and focus more on creating values in their startups. This program does not charge the startup nor the investor any fee through the process, aiming entirely at the mission to accelerate innovation in the space. Since the pandemic in 2020, the selection and pitch process has been completely virtual. While our program only captures a small percentage of early-stage companies, at a glimpse, it seems the most active areas of innovations include: 3D printed orthotics and prosthetics, 3D bioprinting, dental 3D printing, machine learning /artificial intelligence, AR/VR. This observation could be very well related to the overall technological undercurrent, which we will expand on below. This blog aims to summarize the investment trend we observed in 2021 and list individual startups that pitched through our program. Founding and growing an early-stage company are arduous endeavors even for serial entrepreneurs. With emerging technology like 3D printing, many startups have first-time founders, who have nonetheless demonstrated incredible creativity, resilience, and agility. We want to give them some shoutouts and kudos at the beginning of this exciting new year.
Designing 3D Printed Medical Devices
If you had a thousand dollars ten years ago, would you invest in a 3D printing company like 3D Systems (DDD) or Align Technology (ALGN)? (Figure 1) Obviously, one can draw conclusions based on retrospective data shown below, but one could also argue that 3D printing is still an emerging technology and that as an industry its growth potential could outpace that of a specific medtech company. Both arguments are sound. History does not necessarily predict the future, and this blog does not aim to give investment advice. However, the story of a brilliant technology company looking for the killer app to thrive is an all-too-frequent rerun in the entrepreneur world, 3D printing or otherwise. There are a lot of cool things we can make, but only a handful of ideas can break through to change the industrial landscape, fate, and humanity. I am an outsider to the additive manufacturing industry, an end user and provider in healthcare, and it is my opinion that 3D printing needs the healthcare industry, and not the other way around. At least not yet. During our recent virtual mini conference focusing on âDesign for 3D Printed Medical Devicesâ, Jade Myers (Rochester Institute of Technology, Visiting Scientist/Adjunct Faculty, Rochester, NY) and Nicholas Jacobson (Translational Research Faculty- CU Anschutz, CEO-MIX Surgical Technologies) provided design insights of 3D printed medical devices they were working on used in dramatically different environments. This article aims to summarize some takeaways from this conference.Â
Healthcare 3D Printing Mergers and Acquisitions: 2021 Review
The M&A and IPO markets have been flourishing for the last two years. Part of this increased activity is due to an overall market tailwind as a result of pandemic financial markets, stellar earning reports, and overall speculative and growth-bullish investor mentality. However, one advantage of the high valuation of companies in the public market is the increased financial power to make bigger moves to scale, accelerate, and redefine a more ambitious growth goal. This article reviews some of the major mergers and acquisitions in 2021 in the healthcare 3D printing industry and illuminates some of the potential driving forces behind these activities. This article does not aim to provide any investment advice, and if you find this list to be incomplete or inaccurate please feel free to email the author at: info@3dheals.com
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