Forbes magazine recently released its annual series of "30 Under 30" lists honoring young professionals in various industries, including 30 healthcare leaders, many of whom are shaping the industry through digital health or biotech startups.
The 2020 healthcare-focused list was judged by Denise Hinton, the FDA's chief scientist; Trevor Martin, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences and an alumnus of the 2019 list; Robert Nelsen, co-founder and managing director at Arch Venture Partners; and Dr. Helen Torley, president and CEO of Halozyme Therapeutics.
Here are the 30 healthcare leaders under 30 — including several co-founder duos — who made the 2020 list, per Forbes:
- Chloe Alpert, 28: co-founder of Medinas Health
- Joey Azofeifa, PhD, 29: founder of Arpeggio Bio
- Erica Barnell, MD, PhD, 29: co-founder of Geneoscopy
- Catharine Bowman, 21: board director of the Alberta Lymphedema Association
- Mark Fayngersh, 26, and Ilya Vakhutinsky, 27: co-founders of CareSwitch
- Ashley Moy, 25, and Jason Troutner, 25: co-founders of Cast21
- Rumen Hristov, 26, and Zachary Kabelac, PhD, 29: co-founders of Emerald Innovations
- Jean Fan, PhD, 28: postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University
- Evan Feinberg, PhD, 28, and Ben Sklaroff, 27: co-founders of Genesis Therapeutics
- Samantha Gerson, 26: founder of UnBroken
- Annette Grotheer, MD, 29: founder of The Shop Docs
- Bobby Brooke Herrera, PhD, 29: co-founder of E25Bio
- Zaamin Hussain, MD, 26: clinical researcher, Harvard University
- Joe Kahn, 24, and Yasyf Mohamedali, 24: co-founders of Karuna Health
- Arthur Kuan, 29: CEO of Cold Genesys
- Dean Travers, 23, and Scott Xiao, 21: co-founders of Luminopia
- Rainier Mallol, 28: co-founder of AIME
- Janel Nour-Omid, 27: co-founder of Vitalacy
- Kunal Parikh, PhD, 29: research associate at Johns Hopkins University
- Bryan Patenaude, PhD, 29: assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Doug Bernstein, 29, and Jamie Quinterno, 29: co-founders of PECA Labs
- Vijay Ramani, PhD, 29: principal investigator at University of California San Francisco
- Sana Raoof, MD, PhD, 29: researcher at Harvard University
- Zachariah Reitano, 28: co-founder of Ro
- Eva Sadej, 28: founder of Floss Bar
- Rob Mannino, 28, and Erika Tyburski, 29: co-founders of Sanguina
- Jessica Schleider, PhD, 29: assistant professor at Stony Brook University
- Lea Hachigian, PhD, 29, and Tomasz Kula, PhD, 29: co-founders of TScan Therapeutics
- Cameron Turtle, PhD, 29: chief business officer of Eidos Therapeutics
- Carolyn Yarina, 29: co-founder of Sisu Global
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