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Friday, April 4 8:30 am – 9:30 am Science Track: Mobile Technology and 3D Printing: Technologies Gaining Traction in Biotech and Pharma – MassBio Annual Meeting 2014, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

Conference Coverage for Scientific and Social Media:

Panelists:

Scott DeFelice, President, Oxford Performance Materials
David Kolesky, PhD Candidate, Lewis Research Group, Harvard University
Jacques Kpodonu, Cardiac Surgeon, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ravi Kuppuraj, CTO & Co-Founder, InfoBionic

Moderator:

Navjot Singh, Director, McKinsey & Company

Ravi: MOBILE WIRELESS  HEALTH TECHNOLOGY mobile technology at very low cost – WEARABLE chip collecting physiological information transmitted to MDs. Cloud recieves data colected by chip, APP with versatility, FDA, FCC, enforce standards NEED to circonvent the process, SW Service vs. Medical Device vs Health IT,

Jacque: MRI – Google glass, mobile technology , wearablbe computer, share operation results with x-ray data – PRIVACY data  not resolved, printable data. iPhone vs Google Glass – talk to encripted fields, secure, start recording. Instruct a soldor to go to x location, instruct medical record to go with the soldior, Validation in Clinical Trials pending. Sumsong will text application in Hospitals, funding for innovations of ideas is hard

Development of Applications for Google Glass in Medicine, colllect CT and Echo data and send to a company to print out.

Prediction: COst of technology will continue to go down,

David, Printing Tissue for Animal studies to capture tissue behavior, 3D Printing @ Harvard, Graduate Student – Vasculature and Tissue perfusion, Host, Graft tisshe, BIOPRINTING, microtissue, Artificial Organ: Vasculature: HEART, LIVER, BRAIN, KIDHEY – Bioorgan, in a dish, pharma can use in drug development. Artificial Kidney: stem cells in organ scaffolds after all cels flushed. Test drugs in early pregnency of a MODEL og Human early Pregnency. Colaboration Academics and MDs – from Academic Lab to clinical trials, facilitate collaboration, how to find the collaborator

Vasculature is the key effort. use 3D printing for localization of stem cell specific to populate scaffold. Turn off migration and proliferation of differentiated cells.

Prediction: in 15 years new materials mimic human cell functionality

Scott – Printing 3D for ORTHOPEDICS bone prosthesis, approved by FDA last year, DEFECTS in Bone; Knee

Digital technology for IMPLANT design, FDA was convinced after 10 years, now approved. In 15 years from noe JOINT orthopedics – 50% will be 2D Printed