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Keep an eye out for flying cars (not just for billionaires!), AI-powered homes that manage your life, and sustainable tech that cleans our planet and heals our environment.

The conflict in Ukraine has intersections with the world of additive manufacturing. Hosts Stephanie Hendrixson, Peter Zelinski and Julia Hider discuss ways that 3D printing is bringing aid; realities of distributed manufacturing; and the effects of the war on one additive manufacturing business with operations in Ukraine.

This episode is brought to you by the Additive Manufacturing Conference at IMTS.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Project DIAMOnD
• Tucker Induction Systems, manufacturer and Project DIAMOnD node
• IQ Manufacturing, another Project DIAMOnD participant
• MarkForged
• Dinara Kasko on Instagram
• Ultimaker
• Extrusion in Motion
• ADAM Bioprinting and its entry in The Cool Parts Showcase: 3D printed bone
• Past episode on blockchain and AM
• Together We Are Strong
• Tech Against Tanks
• United 24
• Mint for Ukraine

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, 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

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Amy Karle BioArtist. https://www.amykarle.com​. Listen to the the interview to discover why Amy would like to collaborate with an exponential technologist, furthermore her view on the interface between exponential technology and ethics.

Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning BioArtist working at the nexus of where digital, physical and biological systems merge. Karle is also a provocateur and a futurist, opening future visions of how art, science, and technology could be utilized to support and enhance humanity while making advancements in the technology towards those goals in the process of making her artworks.

Current projects probe who we could become as a result of our exponential technologies and how interventions could alter the course of our future. Karle has shown work in 54 international exhibitions, including at: The Centre Pompidou, France; The Mori Art Museum, Japan; The Smithsonian, USA; Ars Electronica, Austria; Beijing Media Arts Biennale, China; Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Poland; FILE International Electronic Language Festival, Brazil. Karle is also regularly invited to share her innovations and insights as an expert speaker and in think tanks world-wide. She was honored as one of “BBC’s 100 Women”, has been named one of the “Most Influential Women in 3D Printing”, was Grand Prize Winner of the “YouFab Global Creative Award” and is a Fellow with Salzburg Global Seminar. Karle was also an Artist Diplomat through the U.S. Department of State tasked with diplomacy, social innovation, women’s empowerment, and supporting cross disciplinary collaborations using art and technology to address social issues. Her work speaks to a wide audience as it inspires exploration into what it means to be human and encourages us to contemplate the impacts of technology on our future.

The long-term goals of her work are to continue to pioneer in bioart and the art and tech fields and make contributions to the advancement of society, technology and healthcare in the process.

Discussed in this interview:

Amy's human story.

How "rich connectedness" within both her personal and professional life has moved her work forward.

Her work as a bioartist, futurist and explorer. Her invitation to top exponential technologist to collaborate. ideaXme is a global network that promotes knowledge of the future.

ideaXme is a podcast available on 12 platforms, in 40 countries world-wide. ideaXme is also a think tank, a creator series and mentor programme. Want to suggest someone for us to interview for our exponential technology and ethics playlist/alternatively a guest interviewer for this playlist? Please email info@ideaxme.com.

Eduardo Longoria (@Portunus17) is the Co-Founder of Portunus Biotechnologies. He graduated from UT Austin Eduardo and has taken part in the building of a non-profit laboratory; Prophase Biostudios.

Having an interest in Biomaterials, Eduardo conducted the research that led to the first product of Portunus Biotechnologies; Chitosan for green crop protection. Eduardo continues to research biomaterials as part of his master’s degree at the Federal University of Parana (UFPR). Part of this research is the development of a chitosan hydrogel mask that acts as a detection tool for COVID19.

Now with Portunus Biotechnologies securely installed in the Toledo Biopark; Eduardo and his partners are endeavoring to bring their Chitosan to market and continue developing novel and green solutions to agricultural problems.

Allevi (previously known as Biobots) was one of the earliest companies focusing on bioprinting for pharma research and organ regeneration. We are fortunate to have a fun and insightful 20-minute ice breaker style interview with its co-founder and CEO Ricky Solorzano, starting from how Ricky got introduced into the RepRap movement, how he crossed paths with several great minds in the field throughout his scientific and entrepreneurship journey, where Allevi is as a company, and how he and his team is coping with the pandemic. Ricky will be speaking at the 3D Printing in Space panel at the upcoming 3DHEALS2020.

His complete more in-depth written interview can be found here.

Ricky Solorzano, Co-Founder, and CEO of Allevi – Ricky guides the vision, strategy, and day to day of the company. He has been obsessed with tissue engineering for 10 years, studied Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and created the world’s first desktop 3D bioprinter out of his dorm room. He has been influential in creating the biofabrication industry and has been a Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 30 under 30, and Business Insider 100: The Creators #65. 

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

Fluidform, a bioprinting startup, successfully printed heart valves using the FRESH technique and new biocompatible materials. In this short interview, Mike Graffeo, CEO of Fluidshorm shared with us this amazing technology, challenges and opportunities with regulation, scalability, and commercialization of tissue engineering /regenerative medicine products in general.

Mike Graffeo, CEO, Fluidform

A senior executive with a proven track record in commercialization of innovative medical technology, Mike is a results-oriented, decisive leader with a track record of successfully growing new businesses in both startup and growth organizations. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive experience translating highly complex devices and clinical data into successful businesses, both in the US and globally. Mike holds a BS in Engineering Physics and an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mike will also be speaking at the upcoming 3DHEALS2020 San Francisco on June 5-6th, 2020, along with 40+ other world-class speakers.

See full video, audio, written interview here. 

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

Dr. Jordan Miller and his collaborators recently published a paper where they use a gel that hardens in response to light to create structures that are non-toxic, and so should be compatible with the human body. The paper made the front cover of Science! Check out this week's episode to learn more about the bioengineering work happening in the Physiologic Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Rice University.