AMMM Focus Sessions
Platform for Discussing Defined Topics
Focus sessions will be incorporated into the scientific program of AMMM. These sessions aim to provide a dedicated platform for discussing clearly defined topics related to medical additive manufacturing. The goal is to gather relevant presentations and discussions within a focused time slot.
Focus Session 1: Additive manufacturing of electrically active implants: Insights from CRC 1270 ELAINE
Prof. Dr. Hermann Seitz, University of Rostock, and Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1270 pursues the vision of developing novel electrically active implants for advanced therapeutic applications. The research focuses on implants designed to support the regeneration of bone and cartilage, as well as devices for deep brain stimulation used in the treatment of movement disorders. This focus session presents current research approaches within CRC 1270 and related initiatives, highlighting additive manufacturing strategies for the fabrication of electrically functional implants and scaffolds for tissue engineering. Emphasis will be placed on material design, multi-functional integration, and advanced manufacturing concepts that enable the controlled interaction between electrical functionality and biological systems.
Focus Session 2: Individualized medicine for oral applications
Dr. Jan Henrik Finke, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
A key challenge for future pharmaceutical production is to combine highest product quality with flexible, patient-centered manufacturing. This requires smaller batch sizes, decentralized and more resilient production, and individually tailored dosage forms whose drug combinations, dosing, and release profiles can be precisely controlled Additive manufacturing enables such individualized material structuring but demands strict quality assurance. When processing pharmaceutical formulations in 3D printing, the resulting product attributes and their implied performances in application must carefully be characterised and controlled. Within this focus session, ongoing research activities and first industrial available solutions will be disucussed.