Dentistry seems to be the potential breakthrough industry to manifest many 3D printing enthusiasts’ dreams of mass customization, point-of-care delivery, and local manufacturing hub for dental professionals, reducing inefficiency and costs. Over the past several years, 3DHEALS has invited many different stakeholders to share their experiences, ranging from material innovation, and software development, to new clinical workflows. Applications ranging from surgical guides, implants, dentures, and night guards are among the new applications gaining increasing attention either in the startup world or the industry at large, in addition to the existing billion-dollar market of dental aligners. The collective thought is that 3D printing can do more and more in parallel to the maturation of technologies. In this 90-minute webinar, we invite experts with unique perspectives about the current status and near future of dental 3D printing, including international clinicians, startup founders, and industry veterans. For those who are interested in learning more about dental 3D printing, please make sure you read this 3DHEALS Guide before the event.

Event Link:
https://3dheals.com/additive-manufacturing-in-dentistry/

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#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

My interview with our #newyork #community #manager Craig Rosenblum on what were some highlights on #tct2023 #medical3dprinting #dental3dprinting #biomedical #biomaterials #bioprinting at the largest 3D Printing conference in the world the TCT/RAPID 2023

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this fun and insightful conversation with the co-founder and co-owner of Cabiomede (Instagram: @CabiomedeVet), I learned a lot more about Mateusz Pawlik, who is behind many of the incredible 3D printing veterinary products for both surgical plannings and for educational purposes. As a young entrepreneur, Mateusz shared with us his earlier failures right out of school, later, business pivots, and future outlook on healthcare 3D printing, not just for veterinary medicine but also for human medicine. We discussed many challenges facing the industry, in particular, how to encourage healthcare providers to adopt a new way of practice and thinking.

Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUvBfRTJef4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Youtube:  Pending
Shownotes: https://3dheals.com/category/blog/interviews/ig-live-interview

About our guest this week:

Mateusz Pawlik, co-owner of Cabiomede

Graduate of Biomedical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland. He gained his experience working in international companies in the medical industry as a product engineer and continuous development manager. Co-owner of CABIOMEDE – company providing R&D services in medical engineering area and Pets Analytics – startup developing an innovative solution in the field of animal health monitoring.

Operations Manager responsible for new products and technology development – presurgical models, custom made surgical guides and implants, polymeric and metal spine and joint implants for animals. Together with CABIOMEDE team developed more than 500 patient’s cases on a basis of Computed Tomography. His biggest project was related to create veterinary surgical workshop models – full canine and feline fractures database according to AOVet classification.

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this episode, we were fortunate to interview the CEO of Brinter, Tomi Kalpio, on Instagram Live to learn the birth history of Brinter, what makes Brinter differentiated from other bioprinting platforms, biotechnology entrepreneur life in Finland, Tomi’s vision for the bioprinting and regenerative medicine field, and the future of Brinter, why “collaboration” is more meaningful in 3D bioprinting either in the academia or commercial/pharma world, why is no one creating software for bioprinting? 

Links:

Shownotes: https://3dheals.com/category/blog/interviews/ig-live-interview
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUK8Y9Vppvx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

About our Guest for this Episode: 

Tomi Kalpio, CEO of Brinter

An innovative leader always looking for new ways to tackle old challenges by creating solutions you did not know that you need.

Leadership and Management skills:

- Technological Competence Management; Technologically-oriented business knowledge which creates a solid ground to analyze and develop global operations and processes

- Order-to-Delivery process

Technical skills:

- Bioprinting / Additive Manufacturing / 3D-printing / 3D Design Professional

- Value-adding to production processes and product

- Know how from small product specific details to large production lines

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this episode of The Lattice podcast, we had the opportunity to chat with professor Ali Khademhosseini about his career, starting when he was a chemical engineering graduate student to becoming a full professor at Harvard, bicoastal move to UCLA, three-time entrepreneur, becoming an Amazon Fellow, to finally becoming the founder and director of the Terasaki Institute, a new educational research center that also wants to build young companies. While Ali has been incredibly productive in academia, his career trajectory is clearly towards academic entrepreneurship, an exciting concept to many scientists, especially in light of the pandemic and the rise of companies like Moderna. Given his success, I dug a little deeper into his secret sauce to achieve success. Fortunately, Ali was willing to share it with everyone as well as his evolving view on what is meaningful success to him and what he envisions his next achievement milestone. Since I knew Ali from his many works on biomaterials and 3D printing, we also discussed his vision for the field.  

About our Guest for this episode: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alikmit/

Ali Khademhosseini is currently the CEO and Founding Director at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation. Previously, he was a Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering and Radiology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). He joined UCLA as the Levi Knight Chair in November 2017 from Harvard University where he was Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and faculty at the Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and as well as associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. At Harvard University, he directed the Biomaterials Innovation Research Center (BIRC) a leading initiative in making engineered biomedical materials. Dr. Khademhosseini is an Associate Editor for ACS Nano. He served as the Research Highlights editor for Lab on a Chip. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), Materials Research Society (MRS), NANOSMAT Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also the recipient of the Mustafa Prize ($500,000 prize) and is a member of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Inventors. He is an author on >650 peer-reviewed journal articles, editorials and review papers, >70 book chapters/edited books and >40 patents/patent applications. He has been cited >74,000 times and has an H-index of 139. He has made seminal contributions to modifying hydrogels and developing novel biomaterial solutions for addressing pressing problems in healthcare. He has founded 2 companies, Obsidio Medical and Bioray. He received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from MIT (2005), and MASc (2001) and BASc (1999) degrees from University of Toronto both in chemical engineering.

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this episode of Instagram live, we had the pleasure to interview Jordi Tura the CEO and founder of Xkelet on his entrepreneur journey and on 3D printing immobilization orthotic devices since 2014, which started with his own broken arm. In addition to the technical aspects of Xkelet's products, we also talked about how to grow a company ground up, how to work with doctors and healthcare systems, and how to improve unit economics to increase the adaption of the technologies, among others. 

How can an outsider create a product to have a product-market fit in healthcare? 

What was the first version of Xkelet braces look like?

What are the three major milestones of Xkelet technical and business development?

How did Jordi's clinical collaborations contribute to the design and growth of Xkelet? 

How does Xkelet leverage software design to increase unit economics and productivity?

Complimentary hardware and material development to Xkelet software platform to optimize the speed and quality of scan-to-print process. 

What is the benefit of staying focused on one solution?

Relevant Links:

Shownotes with video
Youtube
Instagram

About Our Guest:

@Xkelet has been working in the 3D printing immobilization orthotic space ever since 2014. CEO and Founder Jordi has met with many challenges along his journey to bring rapid and affordable user-friendly 3D printed orthosis focusing on the software step of the workflow.   

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this episode, we were able to have an in-depth conversation surrounding not just Amy Karle's major artworks using 3D printing and Bioprinting, but also her personal journey as a bioartist and the meanings behind her artworks.  The two works we focused on include :
1. Regenerative Reliquary, which is a bioprinted scaffold with stem cells in the shape of a hand in a bioreactor to grow bone tissue
2. Heart Evolution, which is an artistic alternative design for a "better" heart that potentially could avoid existing


Some of the questions we explored include:

What does bioprinted organ replace imply to humanity and our identities?

Who has the right to live and access the new and expensive technology that can prolong life?

Who will have access to bioprinted or 3D printed medical devices first? 

What makes something beautiful (Aesthetics)?

Why is it important to make something beautiful (or not)?

What is the role of an artist in terms of aesthetics?

Why is 3D printing (especially in medicine) often perceived as beautiful?

How does an artist feel about generative design? Threatened by robots? 

 

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Shownotes
Instagram
Blogs

About our guest:
Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning bioartist whose work can be seen as artifacts of a speculative future when digital, physical, and biological systems merge. Her work opens future visions of how technology could be utilized to support and enhance humanity while making advancements towards those goals in the process.

In the process of making the artwork, Karle utilizes the technological tools in question and collaborates directly with science and technology to create a joint space for imagination, exploration, and creation. Current projects probe who we could become as a result of exponential technologies and how interventions could alter the course of our future.

Karle has exhibited in prestigious museums worldwide, including at the Smithsonian, USA; The Mori Museum, Japan; The Centre Pompidou, France; Beijing Media Arts Biennale, China; Ars Electronica, Austria; and is regularly invited to share her insights as an expert speaker and in think tanks. Karle was honored as one of “BBC’s 100 Women”, has been named one of the “Most Influential Women in 3D Printing”, and was Grand Prize Winner of the "YouFab Global Creative Award". Karle was also an Artist Diplomat through the U.S. Department of State tasked with women’s empowerment and supporting collaborations using art and technology to address social issues. The long-term goals of her work are to continue to pioneer in the art and tech field and make contributions to the advancement of society, technology, and healthcare in the process. www.amykarle.com

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this fun, Instagram live we interviewed Robert Pugliese, who is the Director of Innovation Design at Thomas Jefferson University, and Jefferson Health where he co-founded the Health Design Lab, a creative space built with the purpose of merging together design-studio ethos with science-oriented discipline to foster innovation in healthcare. As usual, we started our conversation with his early career, the path to founding Health Design Lab, and how 3D printing played a role in all that. Robert's 3D printing lab does not have fancy 3D printers, and he is a firm believer that having excellent design holds the key to solutions and 3D printing is a great tool to achieve that design. We were also fortunate to have a brief virtual tour of Robert's lab and talked about a few super cool clinical cases Robert is working on at the moment.

Full show notes and video recording: Robert Pugliese: Design for Healthcare with 3DPrinting

Instagram account: @healthdesignlab

About our Guest Robert Pugliese:

Robert S. Pugliese is Director of Innovation Design at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health where he co-founded the Health Design Lab, a creative space built with the purpose of merging together design-studio ethos with science-oriented discipline to foster innovation in healthcare. As somebody who enjoys empowering future health care providers to be change makers, Robert leads programs that train students to be health design thinkers and innovators. A Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Robert has spent over ten years practicing and teaching in Emergency Medicine. He believes that including both the patient and provider voice is vital to healthcare design, and he brings each of these perspectives to his work through his experience as a clinician and through his own journey coping with insulin-dependent diabetes. Robert has presented on the intersection of healthcare and design at national venues such as SXSW and Stanford Medicine X and in 2019 he was selected as a Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic Robert has used his unique experience to lead critical response efforts to overcome supply chain shortfalls and respond to community needs for testing and vaccination. In his spare time, Robert produces a weekly podcast and enjoys spending time with his wife and three daughters.

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

In this episode, I had the pleasure to chat with professor Stephanie Willerth at the University of Victoria, also the founder of Axolotl Biosciences.

Stephanie is not only an expert in bioprinting and bioinks in general, but also one of a few scientists in the world focusing on using 3D cell models on common but devastating neurological diseases such as GBM, Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimer's Disease. We started with some basic concepts related to bioprinting, bioinks, organoids, and organ-on-a-chip, and some of the general current applications and ongoing researches. All of these technologies, however, require sophisticated bioink formulation to achieve structural and functional goals. Also, who are the major players in commercial bioprinting? 

Other versions of this episode: 

Website

Instagram

Axolotl Biosciences

Willerth Lab

Youtube

Past blog by prof. Willerth: 

3D Bioprinting Glioblastoma Models for Drug Screening

3D Bioprinting Personalized Brain Tissues

About Our Guest:

Dr. Willerth holds a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Victoria where she has dual appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Medical Sciences as an Associate Professor.

She serves as the Acting Director for the Centre for Biomedical Research at the University of Victoria and on the steering committee of the B.C. Regenerative Medicine Initiative. She also served as the President of the Canadian Biomaterials Society from 2017-2018. Her honors include being named the 2018 REACH award winner for Excellence in Undergraduate Research-inspired Teaching, a Woman of Innovation in 2017, one of the 2015 Young Innovators in Cellular and Biological Engineering, and a “Star in Global Health” by Grand Challenges Canada in 2014. She spent the Fall of 2016 on sabbatical at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery supported by the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries International Travel Award where she wrote her book “Engineering neural tissue using stem cells” published by Academic Press.

She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of California-Berkeley after receiving her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University. Her undergraduate degrees were in Biology and Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw

I had a lot of fun chatting with this international group of young entrepreneurs out of KTH from Akira Science ( @akirascience) in Sweden. We started the conversation on how the members of the team met. Then we moved onto the biopolymers the team is working on and commercializing, including why it is important to have controllable biodegradable biocompatible and 3D printable materials. We also touched upon the potential killer applications using the Akira biopolymer, including creating a scaffold for breast cancer lobectomy patients and wound healing. We also talked about the unique innovation and entrepreneurial environment in Sweden. You can find additional resources here: https://www.akirascience.com/

Youtube
Podcast
Website link
Instagram live

About Our Guests: 

Tiziana Fuoco: Chief Operating Officer
Astrid Ahlinder: Product Manager
Álvaro Morales López: Marketing Manager

Relevant links:

#3dprinted basketball by Wilson:
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/explore/basketball/airless-prototype

#3dprinting for #performancesports on-demand recording link:
https://3dheals.com/courses/3d-printing-for-performance-sports/

Youtube link:
https://youtu.be/s4nJQVA66Nw