30 under 30 with their sights set on fixing healthcare

30 under 30 with their sights set on fixing healthcare

The healthcare startup world is exploding. The barrier to entry is thinning and investors are getting hip to the huge financial opportunity in budding companies. Many of the entrepreneurs at the helm of startups are young, part of an expanding group of startup founders and CEOs who are cutting their teeth in healthcare, an industry fraught with unique challenges, rather than beginning elsewhere and sidestepping into healthcare later on.

Forbes highlighted 30 of these up-and-comers, all of whom are under 30 and already working to change and improve healthcare as we know it.

1. Aaron Ring and Andrew Kruse, both 29, are cofounders of Ab Initio Biotherapeutics.
2. Yehia Abugabal, 28, is the founder of the International Cancer Research Center.
3. Gil Addo, 29, is the cofounder of RubiconMD.
4. Josh Allen, 29, is vice president of research and development for Oncoceutics.
5. Dhananja Jayalath, 26, and Chris Wiebe, 27, are cofounders of Athos.
6. Jarret Bauer, 29, is cofounder of Health Recovery Solutions.
7. Brian Fiske, 29, is senior associate of Flagship VentureLabs.
8. Mugdha Gokhale, 29, is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill performing drug safety research.
9. Ben Harvatine, 24, is the founder founder of Jolt.
10. Kyle Hill, 29, Mike Townsend, 28, cofounders of HomeHero.
11. Reda Jaber, 29, is a partner at IncWell.
12. Cheryl Johnson, 29, is technical officer for the World Health Organization.
13. Duygu Kayaman, 26, is the founder of Hayal Ortagim.
14. Steven Keating, 27, is a PhD candidate at MIT in Boston and an advocate for open patient data.
15. Eric Kim, 28, is a research fellow at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., working with the American Association of Retired Persons to apply his findings about happiness and optimism.
16. Katherine Jin, 21, Jason Kang, 22, and Kevin Tyan, 21 are cofounders of Kinnos.
17. Catherine Marinac, 29, is a PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego researching the link between behavior and chronic disease.
18. Chris Murawski, 25, is an MD student at the University of Pittsburgh who has published over 50 papers on repairing orthopedic damage.
19. Ruchit Nagar, 22, is founder of Khushi Baby.
20. David Narrow, 25, is CEO of Sonavex.
21. Pablo Panteleoni, 27, is cofounder of Medtep.
22. Daniel Penn, 26, cofounder of Shift Health.
23. Brian Powers, 27, an MD-MBA student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., is researching how to make care delivery more efficient and affordable.
24. Aaron Schwartz, 29, is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., who researches the cost of medical services that might not be helpful for patients.
25. Carl Schoellhammer, 28, is CEO of Suono Bio.
26. Patrick Slade, 21, is cofounder of PSYONIC.
27. Shang Song, 27, is cofounder of Rynm.
28. Kaitlyn Gayvert, 25 and Neel Madhukar, 24, are PhD candidates at Weill Cornell Medical College who study cancer genomes.
29. Sajith Wickramasekara, 24, is cofounder of Benchling.
30. Josh Bruno, 29, is cofounder of Hometeam.