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Expert's Views<br />

Empowering Other’s To<br />

Build With Life<br />

Allevi is building tools to design and engineer<br />

with life. Our <strong>3D</strong> bioprinters and bioinks are<br />

used by leading researchers all around the<br />

world to find solutions to humanity’s most difficult<br />

problems - to cure disease, to test novel drugs, to<br />

eliminate the organ waiting list, to build with life.<br />

Founded in 2014, our mission is to make it easy to<br />

design and engineer <strong>3D</strong> tissues. We created our<br />

desktop <strong>3D</strong> bioprinter to be the most versatile,<br />

powerful and easy-to-use bioprinter on the market.<br />

Since our humble beginnings, we have grown to serve<br />

hundreds of labs in all corners of the world and have<br />

become leaders in the biofabrication revolution.<br />

At Allevi, the biggest challenge is definitely the<br />

symphony of things that need to work together to<br />

make the overall solution work. <strong>3D</strong> printing is a<br />

mixture of robotics, software, and material science.<br />

For us we still use robotics and software but our added<br />

layer of complexity is that we print cells. And this is<br />

truly where we derive our specialty. We’ve learned a<br />

lot in the past to be able to print and pattern cells. The<br />

next step is really to get the biology to perform and<br />

working with biologist around the world is the best<br />

way to tackle this.<br />

In terms of the <strong>3D</strong> printing industry, the globe is<br />

moving towards demands of more regional<br />

personalized products as well as thoughts around<br />

sustainability. In era where mass manufacturing has<br />

become mainstream, the new generations are more<br />

conscious of where products are bought, who makes<br />

them, and how do they benefit not only themselves but<br />

the community. I believe we will see <strong>3D</strong> printing<br />

continue to take a greater and greater role in providing<br />

these more regionalized sustainable products for new<br />

market demands.<br />

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