ANALYTICAL AND LAB EQUIPMENT
BMF has taken a screening approach to better understand how to automate the creation of 3D healthcare products
HOW TOPOGRAPHY CAN HELP WITH
An exploration of the way 3D printing is driving innovation in healthcare and life sciences
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ealthcare and life sciences are two industries where 3D printing is driving innovation, since it can
print micro-precision parts that many medical devices require. Beyond medical devices, large healthcare and pharmaceutical companies are researching the ways that 3D printing can be used for next-generation drug development, like biomedicines, or personalised surgical techniques, like bone grafts. Many projects also aim to explore the use of topography in optimising device effectiveness.
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MEDICAL DEVICE EFFECTIVENESS
PROJECT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Last year, The university of Nottingham’s Centre for Additive Manufacturing selected BMF as an advisor for an EPSRC grant-funded 3D printing “Dial Up” project that focuses on“dialing up performance for on demand manufacturing,” where the multidisciplinary research group began to develop a playbook for standardising 3D printing in medtech and life sciences applications. This project runs alongside follow up work funded by an MRC project, the“Acellular / Smart Materials – 3D Architecture: UKRMP2 hub.” Recently, BMF’s CEO, John Kawola, was asked to serve on the advisory board for another project based in the University of Nottingham’s
Biodiscovery Institute, which has long been a leader in researching new materials and medical devices, as they received a grant to focus on designing bio-instructive materials for translation ready medical devices. The goal of the EPSRC–funded “designing bio-instructive materials for translation ready medical devices” project is to address major compatibility issues of implanted medical devices.
SOLVING THE PROBLEM WITH 3D PRINTING These projects have differing goals,
but have taken thematically similar approaches. In Dial Up, BMF has taken a
screening approach to understand how the process of identifying materials and processes for healthcare products to move quickly from concept to clinic might be automated. This will speed up adoption and streamline the process of making products that will help people with long-term chronic conditions, such as intestinal bowel disease. The goal is to make an intestinal
patch that will allow inflamed intestinal tissue to be regenerated
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