Forbes November 29, 2022
These scientists and entrepreneurs are taking on some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, from cancer to women’s health to ensuring equitable access to care.
By Alex Knapp, Katie Jennings, Arianna Johnson, Sarah Emerson and Ariyana Griffin
When Dina Radenkovic, 27, was working as a doctor and researching diseases related to aging, she discovered that women’s ovaries age about five times faster than the rest of a person’s body. This is partially why women struggle with fertility issues as they get older, and also why she founded her company, Gameto, which uses cell engineering with an aim of making IVF cycles shorter and reducing the need for hormone injections.
“We’re in a golden age where technologies are really able to manipulate biology,”...