Biofabrication and biomedical manufacturing research frontiers in the United States

Biofabrication and biomedical manufacturing are inherently multidisciplinary, integrating living systems with advanced manufacturing to create functional products for applications spanning regenerative engineering and medicine, in vitro disease modeling, drug discovery, and medical devices. As these technologies develop, they are emerging as core enablers of next-generation healthcare and life-science innovation. In the United States (U.S.), rapid progress across fabrication processes, material systems, physics-based modeling, and translation-oriented strategies is expanding the achievable design space and accelerating movement from laboratory demonstrations toward clinical and commercial deployment. We introduce major U.S. research frontiers and highlight representative advances in this field that support applications including organoids and other microphysiological systems for in vitro testing, engineered tissue constructs for in vivo use, and medical devices and biohybrid platforms. We further provide an outlook on advancing robust, ethical biofabrication and biomedical manufacturing in the U.S. research ecosystem. (Figure presented.).