OUR STORY
From a university lab to the hospital bedside.
RESEARCH
In the lab
Years of wearable physiological sensing research in Texas A&M's Optical BioSensing Lab, focused on reading the cardiovascular system without a cuff or a needle.
EVIDENCE
Peer-reviewed results
Findings published in the scientific literature, with Texas A&M filing patents on the underlying inventions.
FUNDING
Toward the market
Support from Texas A&M's Advancing Discovery to Market program to move the research toward a real product.
COMPANY
CardiaTex
The researchers behind the work founded CardiaTex to bring continuous blood pressure to every bedside patient.
Built on research from Texas A&M University.
FUNDED
Advancing Discovery to Market
The underlying research was supported by Texas A&M's program for moving discoveries toward the market.
FOUNDED BY THE RESEARCHERS
From the lab to the clinic
CardiaTex was started by the engineers and scientists behind years of wearable sensing research.
TEAM
The team that built the science, and knows how to take it to market.
CardiaTex pairs the engineer who developed the technology with a serial medtech founder who has taken a company from a university lab to acquisition. Between us: the research, the hardware, the hospital floor and the exit.
Justin P. McMurray, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Justin is a hardware engineer at heart. He designs the circuits, sensors and embedded systems behind wearable physiological monitors, from custom printed circuit boards and analog front ends for ECG, PPG and bioimpedance to the enclosures that put them on the body, and he leads a Texas A&M lab team that builds and tests them. He earned his Ph.D., M.Eng. and B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M and has filed multiple patents in wearable biomedical sensing. Before his doctorate he spent more than 18 years in industry as an FAA-licensed aircraft mechanic, RF and EMC field engineer, and medical device production engineer, with two decades of CAD design along the way, so he builds hardware that is designed to be manufactured, not just demonstrated. As a Captain in the U.S. Air Force Medical Service Corps who leads clinic operations, he also sees firsthand the staffing and workflow pressures CardiaTex is designed to relieve.
Gerard L. Coté, Ph.D.
Co-founder
Gerry has turned university research into medical device companies again and again. He has co-founded multiple companies, including Visualase, whose MRI-guided laser surgery system was acquired by Medtronic in 2014. A Texas A&M Regents Professor with more than 30 years in noninvasive biomedical sensing, he directs the TEES Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems and the NSF PATHS-UP Engineering Research Center, where engineers work alongside clinicians, nurses and industry partners. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and received the 2024 Texas A&M System Chancellor's Innovation Award and a 2026 University Innovator Award.
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