How It All Started: Mobelife (Materialize)
In October 2008 at 27-years-old, I was just finishing my PhD in biomedical engineering at KU Leuven and was looking for my next step. I had focused much of my doctorate research on patient-specific planning for cranio-maxillofacial surgery and my colleague Frederik was also finishing up his doctorate degree with a focus on patient-specific implants for orthopedics.
Frederik and I didn’t know quite what to expect when we pitched a new business idea to Materialise about implants that are perfectly adapted to a patient’s anatomy. We were already ver...
