A startup co-founded by two Penn
Chris Molaro, a 2017 MBA graduate, co-founded NeuroFlow last year with Adam Pardes, a bioengineering Ph.D. candidate now on leave from Penn, because Molaro saw a need for improvement in mental health treatment after serving in the Army. The two bonded over a shared desire to improve technology designed to analyze mental health.
The company's data analytics platform uses wearable devices to measure stress markers in real time, said Ellen McGeoch, 2016 Master of Science graduate and director of strategic initiatives and partnerships at NeuroFlow.
The digital health platform is designed to assist clinicians in their decision-making processes by offering objective measurements of stress and other mental states. The tool was used in a study over the summer in the Wharton Behavioral Lab and is currently in use at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a number of private clinics in the Philadelphia area.
