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Explore RIT's feature on my doctoral research in molten metal jetting, biodegradable zinc, and additively manufactured porous structures for reconstructive surgery.
Exploring, engineering, and translating medical technologies from clinical insight to real-world impact.
Pipeline→Step onto the lab floor. Explore projects spanning surgical planning, patient-specific medical device design, additive manufacturing, and translational research.
Each project is presented as evidence of a process: defining the clinical need, designing the engineering response, validating the solution, and communicating with surgical teams.
Publications, intellectual property, recognition, professional training, and leadership developed across medical technology, research, innovation, and international service.
Co-invented a thoracic reconstruction system designed to restore structural continuity following resection of the sternum, ribs, and clavicles. The patented technology integrates anatomical reconstruction, fixation strategy, and surgical validation.
Prosthetic Device for sternum reconstruction
Valeria Marin is an American-Colombian biomedical engineer working at the intersection of additive manufacturing, patient-specific medical devices, and surgical innovation.
Her work combines clinical observation, engineering design, and 3D printing to transform unmet surgical needs into technologies that improve patient care. That direction began during clinical rotations, where she designed patient-specific adapters that restored comfort and function for people with arthritis.
Since then, her path has expanded across implant development, high-volume clinical design, entrepreneurship through HUMANBX, and doctoral research in biodegradable metallic implants at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, New York
Molten metal jetting of porous zinc structures for biodegradable biomedical implants.
Research Story ↗Universidad Autónoma de Occidente · Cali, Colombia
Digit prosthetics and product development for personalized medical applications.
Master's Thesis ↗Universidad Autónoma de Occidente · Cali, Colombia
Digital processing and analysis of histological images.
Undergraduate Thesis ↗Capabilities organized by how they move an idea from clinical observation to a validated, manufacturable technology.
Virtual surgical planning · Segmentation · Anatomical modeling · Surgical simulation · Patient-specific design
Product development · CAD · DFM · Rapid prototyping · Medical devices
Additive manufacturing · Molten metal jetting · Metal and polymer 3D printing · Process optimization
Materialise Mimics · 3-matic · SolidWorks · Fusion 360 · 3D Slicer · MATLAB
SEM · EDS · Micro-CT · Raman · XRF · Degradation studies
Design of experiments · Lean Six Sigma · DMAIC · Root cause analysis · Process validation
Clinical collaboration · Cadaveric validation · Technology commercialization · Intellectual property · Startup leadership
Teaching · Technical writing · Multidisciplinary teams · English · Spanish
Research collaboration, medical technology development, or simply an interesting conversation—my door is open.