#3DStartup: BIOLIFE4D is pioneering advances in tissue engineering

3D printing is becoming more and more advanced and implemented in more important sectors. One of these sectors is the medical industry that’s opening up for new possibilities and solutions. One of the bigger problems is the amount of organ donations needed versus the amount available on a yearly level. In the US alone there is more than 100.000 citizens on the transplant waiting list. Multiple people die every year from not receiving an organ in time. One company working on revolutionising and moving us towards the future is BIOLIFE4D making progress in bioprinted tissues. In short they research and develop new methods to provide organs for donations, future drug testing etc. We had a chance to interview their CEO Steven Morris to learn more.

3DN: Can you please introduce yourself and BIOLIFE4D?

3DN: Tell us more about the projects you are working on?

Our end mission is to 3D bioprint human hearts viable for transplant thus addressing the lack of supply issue, and we are doing it using the patient’s own cells so there will be no chance of rejection and no need for the tremendously undesirable immunosuppressant therapy which current donor recipients have to deal with, which itself can contribute to life threatening circumstances.