Third Coast Dynamics co-founders published a peer-reviewed study reporting the accuracy of TCDflow for estimating aortic hemodynamics and evaluating its ability to predict adverse thoracic aortic disease outcomes.
Source · Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (opens in a new tab)Third Coast Dynamics presented first results from an aortic dissection risk-assessment study using TCDflow at the 2026 annual meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography in San Diego.
Company updateThird Coast Dynamics was invited to participate in the 2026 Mayo Clinic Cardiology and Radiology Innovation Summit.
Company updateThird Coast Dynamics co-founders were invited to join a healthcare startup panel at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Company updateFindings presented at the SCMR 2026 annual meeting in Rio de Janeiro showed that machine-learned hemodynamic estimates from standard MRA were equally predictive of adverse aortic outcomes as direct 4D Flow measurements.
Source · Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance · SCMR proceedings (opens in a new tab)Third Coast Dynamics entered a partnership with Northwestern Medicine to deploy and evaluate TCD technology within the largest healthcare system in the Chicagoland area.
Company updateJulie Blaisdell joined Third Coast Dynamics as full-time Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality.
Company updateHaben Berhane, PhD, joined Third Coast Dynamics as its second software engineer.
Company updateThird Coast Dynamics completed an FDA Pre-Submission and held a Pre-Submission meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on October 27, 2025, regarding the TCDflow development program.
Company updateThird Coast Dynamics received a two-year Phase II STTR grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for “Anatomic Imaging–Derived 4D Hemodynamics Using Deep Learning,” with a company-reported total award amount of $1.56 million.
Company updateThird Coast Dynamics completed a licensing agreement with Northwestern University's Innovation and New Ventures Office for key proprietary TCD technologies.
Company updateThird Coast Dynamics co-founders published a peer-reviewed paper evaluating the TCDflow technology prototype in proof-of-concept studies involving more than 1,700 patients with thoracic aortic disease.
Source · Radiology (RSNA) (opens in a new tab)Third Coast Dynamics received a Phase I STTR grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for “Anatomic Imaging–Derived 4D Hemodynamics Using Deep Learning.”
Source · SBIR.gov (opens in a new tab)Northwestern University selected Third Coast Dynamics co-founders Bradley Allen, MD, and Michael Markl, PhD, to receive seed funding from the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund.
Source · Northwestern Now (opens in a new tab)Third Coast Dynamics was awarded first place in MIT's Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize after being selected among 80 teams to compete.
Third Coast Dynamics finished among the top three in the 2023 Kellogg Healthcare Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition.
Source · Kellogg School of Management (opens in a new tab)