Caralynn Nowinski Collens, who stepped down earlier this year as head of federally funded research center UI Labs, is returning to her roots in medicine and startups.

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Collens has signed on as CEO of Dimension Inx , a Northwestern spinout that developed materials for flexible organ and tissue implants that can be created by a 3D printer. The primary use is for reconstructive surgery.

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Dimension grew out of research by Ramille Shah when she led the Tissue Engineering & Additive Manufacturing Lab at Northwestern. She’s now at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Like Collens, Shah is a former Crain’s 40 Under 40 . Collens has a medical degree and an MBA, and she and worked in venture capital and commercializing university research. “Biofabrication is the next generation of manufacturing—in medicine,” Collens said. Adam Jakus, who was a researcher in Shah’s lab, is chief technology […]

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