Aprecia Pharmaceuticals Company was founded in 2003 with the explicit goal of achieving commercial production for unique pharmaceutical dosage forms via advanced three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology. Powder-liquid 3DP, a novel technology that forms objects layer by layer, was originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s as a rapid-prototyping technique. From 1993 to 2003, this work was expanded into the distinct areas of tissue engineering and pharmaceuticals. While 3DP technology rights were licensed for a diverse range of industrial fields, MIT`s 3DP process and its applications in ...
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals Company was founded in 2003 with the explicit goal of achieving commercial production for unique pharmaceutical dosage forms via advanced three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology. Powder-liquid 3DP, a novel technology that forms objects layer by layer, was originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s as a rapid-prototyping technique. From 1993 to 2003, this work was expanded into the distinct areas of tissue engineering and pharmaceuticals. While 3DP technology rights were licensed for a diverse range of industrial fields, MIT`s 3DP process and its applications in the pharmaceutical industry are exclusively licensed to Aprecia.
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Number of Employees:
25-100
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Annual Revenue:
$1-10 Million