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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