AMA: Healthcare GenMat: Generative Design for Patient-Specific Orthopedic Implants

• With AMA: Healthcare on June 4th putting 3D printing in medicine under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Orthopedic implant design has progressed steadily over the past five decades, from solid metal blocks to sophisticated lattice structures. Yet revision rates have barely moved, remaining between…

With AMA: Healthcare on June 4th putting 3D printing in medicine under the spotlight, voices from across the industry are weighing in on where the technology is heading. Orthopedic implant design has progressed steadily over the past five decades, from solid metal blocks to sophisticated lattice structures. Yet revision rates have barely moved, remaining between 10 and 20%. Dr. Sajjad Raeisi, Founder and CEO of GenMat, argues the field has been solving the wrong problem. His platform, Ossevo, applies bio-inspired computational methods to address what he sees as the root cause: the mechanical mismatch between synthetic implants and living bone. His platform, Ossevo, short for osseous evolution, applies bio-inspired computational methods to produce implants that replicate bone’s structural