Jay Künzler is currently the CTO of Envision Biomedical LLC - a biomedical materials research company. He is also President of Künzler Biomedical, a materials research consulting company. Prior to this, Jay worked as a Research Fellow at Dentsply-Sirona where his research activities were focused on the development of 3D printed prosthetics for dental application. In this role, several state-of-the-art materials have been recently commercialized including the first high-impact fully integrated 3D printed denture: Lucitone Digital Print™. Jay also worked at Bausch & Lomb (BL) where he was Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Department of Polymer Chemistry. At BL he directed the synthetic and formulation group towards the design and commercialization of several novel biomedical materials and engineering processes for ophthalmic application. This included targeted drug delivery devices, continuous wear and disposable contact lenses and intraocular lenses (some key commercialized products include: Pure Vision, Boston XO2, Biotrue One Day, SofLens Daily, Naturalle and Zeus-Ultra). Jay played a pivotal role in the development of the first commercial silicone hydrogel contact lens material. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the Arthur K Doolittle Award (ACS), the Industrial Innovation Award (ACS), Chief Scientific Officer Innovation Award (BL), the Adolph Lomb Scientific Achievement Award (BL) and the Engineer with Distinction Award (Rochester Engineer Society). Jay was inducted as Fellow in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2007, and most recently, Fellow in the American Chemical Society, Division of Polymeric Materials and Engineering in 2014. He currently holds over 100 US Patents and has published extensively and presented at numerous domestic and international chemical society meetings. He received a B.A. in Chemistry/Biology (Pre-Medicine) from Valparaiso University, a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Macromolecular Science under the guidance of Professor Virgil Percec.