Additive manufacturing has emerged as a key enabling technology in medical engineering and continues to advance rapidly across a broad range of clinical and biomedical applications. From patient-specific implants, prostheses, and soft medical devices to bioresorbable scaffolds and bioprinted constructs for tissue engineering, additive manufacturing offers unique opportunities for personalization, functional integration, and the development of innovative solutions for modern medicine.
Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine (Trans. AMMM) provides an interdisciplinary scientific platform at the interface of engineering, materials science, life sciences, and medicine. The journal brings together researchers, clinicians, industry experts, and entrepreneurs to present and discuss advances in additive manufacturing and their translation into medical research, clinical practice, and healthcare applications.
The journal focuses on the development, characterization, and application of additive manufacturing technologies in medicine. Its scope includes, but is not limited to, printed anatomical models for diagnostics, treatment planning, training, and medical education, with applications in fields such as internal medicine, ophthalmology, neonatology, oncology, orthopedics, dentistry, rehabilitation, and veterinary medicine.
Further key areas include patient-specific implants and prostheses, orthoses and assistive devices, surgical instruments and guides, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, bioprinting, and the development of novel biomaterials and bioinks. Contributions addressing soft and flexible medical devices, functional and multimaterial printing, and emerging additive manufacturing technologies are particularly welcome.
Trans. AMMM also covers enabling technologies and processes across the additive manufacturing workflow, including medical image processing, data preparation, design and simulation, process optimization, post-processing, quality assurance, characterization, biocompatibility, and biological evaluation. Regulatory, translational, and clinical aspects of additive manufacturing, including the development and implementation of patient-specific and point-of-care manufactured medical devices, are also within the scope of the journal.
Through its interdisciplinary focus, Trans. AMMM aims to connect fundamental and applied research with clinical needs and industrial innovation, thereby supporting the translation of additive manufacturing technologies from research and development into safe, effective, and sustainable medical applications.