Chicago and Evanston, Ill.
From Shriners Hospitals for Children-Chicago; The Craniofacial Center, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Illinois Health; and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Division of Organ Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University.
Received for publication March 19, 2018; accepted October 9, 2018.
Disclosure:Patents pertaining to this work have been filed and are pending: (1) room-temperature synthesis and three-dimensional printing of bioactive elastic bone for tissue engineering applications (inventors: A.E.J. and R.N.S.), (2) ink compositions for three-dimensional printing and methods of forming objects using the ink compositions (inventors: A.E.J. and R.N.S.), and additive manufacturing of porous materials through creation and three-dimensional printing of salt containing liquid feedstock materials followed by multi-step leaching. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests. A.E.J. and R.N.S. are co-founders of and shareholders in Dimension Inx, LLC, which develops and manufactures new advanced manufacturing compatible materials and devices for medical and nonmedical applications. As of August of 2017, A.E.J. is currently full-time chief technology officer of Dimension Inx, and R.N.S. serves part time as chief science officer of Dimension Inx. A.E.J. and R.N.S. are inventors on patents that are licensed to Dimension Inx. Dimension Inx did not influence the conduct, description, or interpretation of the findings in this article.
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Ramille N. Shah, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street, 2nd floor, Chicago, Ill. 60607-7043, [email protected]
