CIM3D: 3D Printing for Medicine

Carle Illinois College of Medicine students are using 3D printing in a new way to help advance medicine and medical education. They’ve created the first student-led 3D printing interest group on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. The group creates new opportunities for students to prototype their health care innovations and visualize disease within the human body.
CIM3D emerged as a student organization dedicated to promoting 3D printing for medical innovation. The mission of this group is to increase the availability and usage of additive manufacturing methods – particularly, 3D printing – in medical applications at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED). By making 3D printing more accessible, CIM3D seeks to advance the medical school’s mission, enabling students at CI MED to more rapidly innovate in medicine.

CIM3D partners with the Illinois Maker Lab which houses the world’s first business school 3D printing lab part of the Gies College of Business.

NEWS COVERAGE:
CI MED Newsroom: Healing Tools: 3D Printing for Medicine Led by CI MED Students
Carle Health Newsroom:  Partnership fosters innovation aimed at children who had heart transplants
News-Gazette: UI students visualizing future of medicine with 3D printing

OFFICERS

President: Rand Kittani (Class 2026)
Vice President: Kamryn Abraskin (Class 2026)
Treasurer: Jose Beltran (Class of 2026)
Secretary: Ameek Bindra (Class of 2027)

Faculty Advisors

TC Chen, MD
Suguna Pappu, MD
Athena Ryals
Elaine Kristant
Michael Martin
Brendan Harley, Sc.D