Dynocardia, Inc.
ViTrack is the first of its kind, non-invasive, cuff-less, wearable device for continuous, non-invasive, blood pressure monitoring device
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Medical Devices and Equipment
- Location Boston, MA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded September 2018
- Employees 7
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website dynocardia.care
Company Summary
Developed out of MIT and Tufts Medical from a NIH grant, Dynocardia was formed to commercialize the ViTrack™ technology which is the first of its kind, cuff-less, wearable technology for continuous, non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP) monitoring, addressing the unmet clinical need for out-patient diagnosis and management of the billion+ worldwide with hypertension and in-hospital patient monitoring to prevent complications and reduce costs.
Team
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Co-Founder, CEODr. Thanikachalam is a cardiovascular surgeon at Tufts Medical and on faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine and an Affiliate Faculty at MIT. His interests are in population-based cardiovascular disease and community-specific intervention strategies and include the development of point-of-care technologies for cardiovascular assessment and monitoring. As PI of an NIH grant, Mohan led the effort to development the ViTrack Technology.
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Edward AdelsonCore Technology LeadWilson Professor of Vision Science - Brain & Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence at MIT. Member of National Academy of Sciences & a Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Science. Prof. Adelson is renowned for contributions to multiscale image and concepts in vision (Helmholtz Prize winner). Prof. Adelson led the effort to develop ViTrack's artificial touch sensing, converting touch to image, enabling tactile sensing at the micron level.
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Abhijit BiswasCore Technology LeadDr. Biswas expertise is in Haptics, Medical Simulations with Touch Feedback, Virtual Reality, Biomedical Instrumentation, Embedded System, Power Electronics, Signal Processing, and Physiological Modeling. As a post doc at MIT, he led the efforts in the development of ViTrack hardware and software.
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Mark KotfilaStrategic partnership LeadUntil recently, Mark lead design and development of patient monitoring solutions at Philips Healthcare. He was Director of Product Development for the team at Philips that designed and developed the “Smart-hopping” Medical Telemetry system. Mark was also the Program Manager for the re-architecture of Design Controls for Patient Monitoring at Philips. He has over 3 decades of experience in medical device industry.
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Product ManagerGokul is a biomedical engineer with six years of medical device product development experience. He had recently completed his M.S. in Engineering and Management (System Design and Management) at MIT. He is responsible for day to day management of product development activities at Dynocardia.
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Head, FinanceCarly is an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center as well as a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also the Managing Director of the MIT NYC Startup Studio.
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Chief Product OfficerJosé is a mechanical engineer who has spent a large portion of his career as a leader within GE Healthcare’s Center of Excellence for NIBP, as well as leading engineering at a design & development firm (Farm/Flex). Before Dynocardia, José was a Senior Expert/Associate Partner at McKinsey, where he directed engagements in medical device design, quality, growth strategy, and organizational transformation.
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