Development and Translation of New Biomaterial Platforms for Biofabrication

Over the past 10 years my research lab and start up, Dimension Inx, has been working to develop and commercialize new advanced regenerative biomaterials that are compatible with 3D-printing. We have developed an extensive range of tunable 3D-printable material platforms that greatly expand the biomaterial palette for complex soft and hard tissue biofabrication. Examples of these new advanced materials include a synthetic <i>Hyperelastic “Bone”®</i> material with unique properties that allow for scalable, surgically friendly bone-defect repair, a <i>Fluffy-</i>X™ material that has ideal properties for soft tissue and organ biofabrication, and electrically conductive <i>3D-Graphene</i> for nerve and muscle regeneration. In this talk I will describe these new advanced biomaterials, their promise in medicine, and how we are taking them from development through to scale up production for commercial and clinical translation.