Melanie Matheu
What if you could build life with light?
What if you could build life with light?
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Melanie Matheu founded Prellis Biologics in October 2016 with a design for an optical-based printing system and a roadmap to creating fully vascularized human tissues and organs for transplantation. She was inspired to find a way to reverse-engineer laser-based imaging systems into a printer when she realized that the final roadblock in building human organs for transplant was a simple and well-defined engineering problem: How can microvasculature be printed fast enough to build human tissues? Prellis Biologics’ technology solves this problem by partially decoupling printing speed from resolution with a novel patent-pending laser-based projection system. Melanie's PhD-level specialties in laser-based microscopy, immunology, chemistry, physiology, and biophysics have allowed her to bridge the gap between seemingly disparate fields to make human organ engineering a reality.
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