Throwing it back... 3D printed prosthetics

When I first started at JMU, I got involved in an interdisciplinary group of STEM faculty trying to help a client (and a member of the team) design a better socket for his prosthetic. Although a complete novice at the time about 3D printing, my role on the team served to prepare the pitch script for the recording (see video link below) and give the presentation to investors at the Madison Trust event in 2018.

https://vimeo.com/255796012?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=11267141

Although our client moved away from the area and the group has disbanded, I still love the idea of personalized medicine. How I address that now through my research is by offering "personalized biological tools" to help my collaborators answer the questions they have about different biological phenomena they observe. These tools can manifest as Monte Carlo simulations for mechanical or organizational phenomena due to different signaling (chemical or mechanical) conditions, or image and data analysis techniques to quantify different experimental conditions to "prove" the outcomes or targets of these experiments.