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    Adam Jakus, PhD

    Adam Jakus, PhD

    Dr. Adam Jakus is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Dimension Inx, a Chicago-based, advanced biomaterials and biofabrication company. As CTO, Adam leads Dimension Inx internal innovation, external collaborative projects, as well as manufacturing activities. For the past 11 years, Adam has been intimately involved with advanced, functional material design for 3D-printing and bioprinting, covering and developing new 3D-printable materials as diverse as metals and alloys, ceramics, graphene and nanotubes, extraterrestrial regoliths, gels, and advanced hard and soft tissue regenerative biomaterials – encompassing a materials-centric platform now collectively referred to 3D-Painting. With a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech, Adam is a Materials Engineer at heart and believes the future of medical and non-medical technologies lies in the development of new, advanced materials. In addition to numerous patents, high impact academic, clinical, and industry publications as well as book chapters related to the development of advanced 3D-printed materials and processes, Dr. Jakus is very active in promoting the broader development of the emerging biofabrication industry. As an active member of numerous medical, professional, and government organizations, he aids in the development of new standards and regulatory guidance related to emerging bioprinting, biofabrication, and point-of-care technologies and is a strong proponent of comprehensive education and integrating engineering culture and problem solving methodologies to life science fields.

    content by Adam Jakus, PhD

    Medical 3D Printing: Leveraging the Established for the Emerging

    In spite of the similar goals to improve and save lives, established medical 3D printing (established being defined here as 3D printing of guides, models, prosthetics, patient assist devices, and permanent implants) and emerging tissue-restorative 3D printing/bioprinting (with or without living cells) are frequently treated independently of each other. With different communities, professional societies and […]

    Point-of-Care Additive Manufacturing of Tissue Regenerative Implants

    A Not-Too-Distant Future Due in part to a very active and passionate medical 3D-printing community, the past decade has witnessed a significant growth of point-of-care manufacturing, including additive manufacturing, by a variety of healthcare providers. Simultaneously, but independently from these expanding PoC activities, significant efforts have been put towards progressing tissue engineering and tissue regenerative […]