# Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Future of Customized Medical Manufacturing with Cambre Kelly

- Show: [Additive Snack](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack)
- Published: 2023-09-19
- Length: 26m
- Episode: 2
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c
- Listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/b6ae3359

## Summary

Cambre Kelly, co-founder and CTO of restor3D, explains how the company vertically integrates additive and traditional manufacturing to produce personalized orthopedic implants. She details the scientific validation of gyroid lattice structures for bone growth and the strategic decision to keep production in-house to maintain agility and proprietary knowledge. Kelly also discusses recent acquisitions of Kenos Medical and Conformis to expand into ankle, hip, and knee procedures, as well as the use of AI for automating CT scan segmentation and design.

## Chapters

- [0:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=4) Introduction: Cambre Kelly and restor3D
- [1:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=87) Kelly's Academic Background and Research on Porous Structures
- [3:44](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=224) Scientific Validation of Gyroid Lattice Structures
- [6:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=418) Founding restor3D and Vertical Integration Strategy
- [10:29](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=629) Benefits of In-House Manufacturing and Surgeon Collaboration
- [16:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=975) Acquisitions of Kenos Medical and Conformis
- [19:57](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/additive-snack/2023-09-19-revolutionizing-healthcare-the-future-of-customized-medical-manufacturing-with-c#t=1197) Scaling Production and AI-Driven Design Automation

## Topics

- [Materials & manufacturing processes](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/materials-and-processes)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Medical & health devices](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/medical-devices)
- [Growth, exits & acquisitions](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/growth-exits-and-acquisitions)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- restor3D (company)
- Duke University (company)
- 3D Systems (company)
- Kenos Medical (company)
- Conformis (company)
- Georgia Tech (company)
- Drexel University (company)
- 3 ID platform (product)

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