Mission
3D4MD is a social enterprise that makes high quality, 3D printing solutions to impact over 1 billion lives at home, abroad, and in space.
Our Solutions
Aid Supplies On Demand
Over 293 million people need humanitarian assistance. 3D4MD’s growing digital catalog addresses the supply needs of humanitarian aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, the World Health Organization, Red Cross, and United Nations programmes.
Medical Care for Space Missions
Cost and storage constraints severely limit the medical care capabilities of space missions. 3D4MD makes lower cost, high quality 3D printable designs of medical resources to treat an ill or injured astronaut on-site during a long space mission.
Solar Powered, Mobile 3D Printers
3 billion people do not have access to the Internet and 675 million people lack access to electricity. 3D4MD designed and tested a solar-powered, plug-and-play, and ultra-portable 3D printing system to manufacture medical supplies in offline, offgrid regions.
Personalized Virtual Care Solutions
3.43 billion people lives in rural areas where finding specialized medical skills, equipment and items can be impossible. 3D4MD uses cellphone photos to design customized, 3D printable medical devices for patients in remote communities.
Accessible Assistive Devices
Over 1 billion people have a disability and many of them cannot obtain assistive devices that allow them to participate fully in everyday life. 3D4MD designs award-winning, 3D printable assistive devices to save time and money for people with disabilities.
Devices for Global Surgical Care
5 billion people lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care. 3D4MD has created and tested 3D printable surgical devices and simulators to advance surgical education and care in the most challenging places to those who need it the most.
How We’re Different
Leadership
3D4MD is a leader in 3D printing in remote and difficult to work places and holds the distinction of 3D printing the first medical supplies in space and at the Mars Desert Research Station.
Data-Driven
3DM4D monitors and reports our quantitative and qualitative outcomes in peer-reviewed publications to demonstrate that 3D printing solutions are better than existing alternatives.
Quality
3D4MD is licensed by Health Canada to 3D print Class I medical devices and received an overall compliant rating after a routine inspection by Health Canada in 2019.
Impartial
3D4MD is committed to bringing quality healthcare solutions to people regardless of their nationality, race, gender, identity, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
Collaboration
In partnership with Medical Makers, 3D4MD crowdsources life-changing solutions to minimize development time and costs and maximize our social impact.
Eco-Friendly
3D4MD 3D prints with sanitizable and sterilizable filament so medical devices can be reused and makes single-use items out of biocompatible and recyclable or biorenewable plastic.
User-Centered
3D4MD uses open-filament, open-source, and user-friendly 3D printers and designs solutions that print support-free and are ready to use right out of the 3D printer.
Empowerment
3D4MD is a minority woman-led and woman-founded social enterprise that uses 3D printing to directly benefit girls and women by reducing inequities and strengthening their rights.
