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Simplifying medication regimens through 3D-printed pills with CraftHealth’s Dr. Goh Wei Jiang

Simplifying medication regimens through 3D-printed pills with CraftHealth’s Dr. Goh Wei Jiang

Update: 2025-06-30
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Dr. Goh Wei Jiang is the Co-founder and CEO of CraftHealth, a pioneering Singapore-based startup revolutionizing personalized medicine through 3D printing. With a background in pharmacy and a PhD-MBA from NUS, Dr. Goh brings both scientific expertise and commercial insight to the forefront of MedTech innovation. Drawing on his clinical experience and translational research, he co-founded CraftHealth to solve a real-world challenge: simplifying polypharmacy and improving drug compliance through customizable, on-demand medications.

In this episode, Dr. Goh Wei Jiang shares his journey from hospital pharmacist to a Healthtech founder. Motivated by the challenge of polypharmacy and the pill burden faced by patients, Dr. Goh and his co-founder developed a 3D printing platform that enables personalized medicine—combining multiple drugs into a single, tailored pill with customized release profiles.

He walks us through the early ideation phase, shaped by his experiences in Stanford Biodesign, GRIP, Lean Launchpad, and other innovation ecosystems, and how they tested their first 3D printed pill using a small grant. Dr. Goh explains how CraftHealth's proprietary platform integrates hardware, software, and material science to create a modular, scalable approach to medication production.

Dr. Goh also explores real-world applications: from improving precision dosing in pediatric or renal patients to enabling compounding pharmacies and supplement companies to rapidly prototype and personalize products. He discusses regulatory challenges, automation, hospital partnerships, and long-term visions for decentralised drug manufacturing. Finally, he shares his reflections on entrepreneurship, emphasising the importance of customer validation and building what people are willing to pay for.

Host: Dillon Chew

Editors: Hana Maldivita Tambrin, Aakash S/O Naresh Kumar, Dillon Chew

Chapters:

  • 01:15 – Dr. Goh’s Background & Identifying the Problem of Polypharmacy

  • 08:50 – CraftHealth’s 3D Printing Platform (Hardware, Software, Materials, Data)

  • 13:15 – Use Cases

  • 15:15 – Addressing Challenges, Regulatory & Commercial Fit

  • 24:00 – Expansion and growth strategies

  • 34:00 – Vision for Decentralized Drug Manufacturing and Closing


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Simplifying medication regimens through 3D-printed pills with CraftHealth’s Dr. Goh Wei Jiang

Simplifying medication regimens through 3D-printed pills with CraftHealth’s Dr. Goh Wei Jiang

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