so im just looking around and trying to dig up some DD and found this.... not sure if related to "medgen" at all, but they J.R. and Joseph M. DeSimone both work at NCU!
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3-D printing start-up Carbon seeks to be found everywhere
The start-up is taking the technology deeper into manufacturing
by Alexander H. Tullo
JULY 1, 2018 | APPEARED IN VOLUME 96, ISSUE 27
in early 2015, Joseph M. DeSimone, then best known as an influential chemist at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University, took to the technology world’s hippest stage and brought the house down.
CARBON AT A GLANCE
? Technology: 3-D printing
? Location: Redwood City, Calif.
? Founders: Joseph DeSimone, Alex Ermoshkin, and Edward Samulski
? Funding: $422 million
? Backers: GV, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Emerson Collective, GE Ventures, Fidelity, Adidas, JSR, Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Kraftwerk, and others
It was a TED Talk, and DeSimone was pitching his new three-dimensional printing company Carbon. An overhead projection boasted that Carbon’s process was 25 to 100 times as fast as other 3-D printing technologies. To prove it, one of his machines made a part—a ball consisting of concentric geodesic layers—live on stage.
While it was emerging from a bath of red fluid, DeSimone recalled how he and the technology’s other inventors were inspired by the scene in the movie “Terminator 2” when the robot baddie reassembles itself from a pool of liquid metal. When the ball was completed toward the end of his 10-minute talk, the room erupted in applause.
