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Healthcare 3D Printing Ecosystem: India
In this lightning round, we would like to connect experts from the Indian healthcare 3D printing ecosystem with 3DHEALS audiences around the world, highlighting their breakthroughs, and...
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 technology’s boundless flexibility. 3D...
Biomaterials for 3D Printing
Biomaterial science is one of the major pillars of the successful advancement of 3D printed solutions for healthcare. In this webinar, we invited stakeholders from academia, industry, larger...
Post Processing for Healthcare 3D Printing
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Point of Care 3D Printing
Point of care 3D printing is becoming one of the biggest attractions in adopting 3D printing in healthcare systems because it demonstrates the ability to decentralize manufacturing personalized...
3D Printing and Microfluidics
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...
Startup Fundraising in Healthcare 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...
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Financial Analysis Worksheets (Downloadable) for 3D Printing in Hospitals - Guide 5/5
In the previous section of this guide, we went in-depth about the financial issues surrounding 3D printing in hospitals, which includes discussions on reimbursement, revenue...
Guide: 3D Printing For Cancer Care
Cancer, what a modern-day existential threat to humanity, is a word that triggers a cringe from the most fearless. I don't need to give you a precise mortality/morbidity number, because chances are...
3D Printing Veterinary Medicine - A Guide
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 on 2021...
3D Printing Bone: A Novel Way to Study Bone Diseases In Vitro
The development of new drugs and therapeutic treatments is a highly complex and elongated process beginning with cell culture studies which progress to animal models before the clinical trials are...
The Ultimate Resource Center for Healthcare 3D Printing (7/28/22 Version)
I first encountered 3D printing (a.k.a. additive manufacturing) at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) many years ago. I remember the 3D-printed anatomical models passed around during...
Interview with Andrew Allshorn: #STEAMEDUCATION
Andrew Allshorn Graduated from Wolverhampton School of Art and Design with a Degree in Product Design. In 1994 he started his career in AM/3D Printing running an SLA250 and Vacuum system at...
Expert's Corner
Financial Analysis Worksheets (Downloadable) for 3D Printing in Hospitals - Guide 5/5
In the previous section of this guide, we went in-depth about the financial issues surrounding 3D printing in hospitals, which includes discussions on reimbursement, revenue strategies, and cost analysis for 3D printing in hospitals. In this final section of this guide, we created a sample financial analysis spreadsheet, which you can use as a basic framework to construct a financial plan for setting up a 3D printing service (Link). (29,30) The following is a discussion of two hypothetical scenarios to demonstrate how this spreadsheet works. Please be aware that the values used could vary widely and should not be used as reference numbers. For example, the construction of a dedicated area for a 3D printer is highly variable depending on the hospital, geography, type of machine, regulatory requirements, etc. Also, the pricing of machines, tools, and materials has also changed significantly as 3D printing is an ever-changing landscape that experienced exponential growth since the publication of the original book. While we update these guides regularly to reflect such changes, the numbers should be used as hypothetical, and not literal, values.
3D Printing Bone: A Novel Way to Study Bone Diseases In Vitro
The development of new drugs and therapeutic treatments is a highly complex and elongated process beginning with cell culture studies which progress to animal models before the clinical trials are reached. On average, the development of a new type of medicine takes at least ten years with a likelihood of approval at 9.6%. These numbers can be improved by ensuring that the foundation for the drug is based on a clinically relevant system 1 . In this article, we will focus on how 3D printing bone can be a novel way to improve the drug discovery process for bone diseases by providing a way to evaluate them in vitro.
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 “Design for 3D Printed Medical Devices”, 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.
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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