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Technology for identifying at-risk patients with atrial fibrillation, developed by a Mount Sinai researcher, has won the inaugural Alexandria LaunchLabs Scholarship Award, according to a press release.

The researcher, Ya-El Mandel-Portnoy, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, developed Cardea Sciences to address the need of effectively stratifying patients with AF. Her technology allows physicians to measure pulse deficit in an outpatient setting and categorize patients based on their deficit.

The technology “will help care providers optimize their course of treatment and reduce the number of readmissions, thus leading to a reduction in health care costs,” Mandel-Portnoy said in the release.

“We are thrilled to have Dr. Mandel-Portnoy bring her passion and excitement for entrepreneurship to the Alexandria LaunchLabs community and are committed to helping her build a successful company around her promising [AF] technology,” Black Stevens, PhD, general manager of Alexandra LaunchLabs, said in the release.

As the award winner, Mandel-Portnoy will receive laboratory and office space at the Alexandria LaunchLabs.

Disclosure: Mandel-Portnoy is founder of Cardea Sciences. Stevens is an employee of Alexandria LaunchLabs.