Organovo

Organovo, a biotechnology company headquartered in San Diego, is the dominating market leader in the bioprinting technology as of today. Although the first bioprinter was created in 2008 by Professor Makoto Nakamura, Organovo is expected to continue to dominate the bioprinting markets with their breakthrough developments of the product. Recently, Organovo has applied for and owns patents for “multilayered vascular tubes” and “self-assembling multicellular bodies and methods of producing a three-dimensional structure using the same”. Organovo’s NovoGen MMX Bioprinter was also acknowledged as one of the best inventions in 2010 by TIME magazine.