30 Under 30 Europe Science & Healthcare 2025: The Founders And Scientists Addressing Women
April 14, 2025
The entrepreneurs and scientists of this year’s 30 Under 30 list are making inroads in traditionally underserved sectors like fertility and exploring novel ways of addressing everything from climate change to autoimmune diseases.
By Pamela Jew
When Felicia von Reden was 26, her doctor diagnosed her with endometriosis and said her reproductive age was 10 years older than her biological age. The message was clear: if she wanted to have children, she better start soon. Without a partner at the time, Von Reden started wondering: “What are my options? What can I expect? What is the right thing to do?”
She found fertility clinics to be one-size-fits-all, with a standard treatment plan of hormonal injections, a trial run of in vitro fertilization (IVF)—or in her case, egg freezing—and hoping for the best.
Von Reden saw a business opportunity. One in six people globally are infertile, however fertility treatments—including IVF—remain underfunded and inaccessible thanks largely to high costs and time-consuming treatment.
With Dr. Lynae Brayboy (Ovom’s Chief Medical Officer), von Reden, now 28, cofounded Ovom Care to make reproductive care more successful, accessible and catered to the individual. How? AI. The cofounders have created machine learning that they say can more accurately identify viable eggs and personalize treatment plans. Founded in 2023, the company now has operations in London and Lisbon. Ovom Care has raised $8.2 million across two funding rounds—the most recent of which was at a $22.7 million valuation—from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Ananda Impact Ventures, Unifier Ventures and Merantix Capital.
“We make you part of the fertility journey and not just a bystander,” says von Reden.
Von Reden is just one of the enterprising founders on this year’s 30 Under 30 Europe Science & Healthcare list. For more than a decade, Forbes has highlighted young scientists and entrepreneurs for our annual 30 Under 30 list. To be considered for this year’s list, all candidates had to be under the age of 30 as of April 8, 2025, and never before named to an 30 Under 30 North America, Asia or Europe list.
To select the 2025 listmakers, Forbes collected nominations from Under 30 alumni and the public, conducted our own research and gathered insight from a panel of independent judges, featuring Charlotte Casebourne Stock, executive partner at Yarvie and 2021 Under 30 Europe alum; Andreas Halner, president of Oxford Cancer Analytics and 2022 Under 30 Europe alum; René Kuijten, head of EQT Life Sciences and partner at EQT; and Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation.
Other honorees are focusing on other parts of women’s health. Bara Kubinova, 28, founded Lively, a menstrual cycle tracking app with features that educate women on nutrition and exercise throughout the stage of their cycle. With no outside investments, Kubinova has grown the company to over $5 million in revenue last year and a user base of over 1.3 million. Gleb Babiy, 22, got his start in women’s health after an early diagnosis of excessive female hormone production rendered him unlikely to have children. His startup Aspect Health utilizes data on glucose and hormones through wearable technology. They then design personalized care plans for those with chronic conditions, such as PCOS.
Meanwhile, many members of this year’s list are innovating in the fight against climate change. Pascal Asselin, 28, cofounded MORFO, a deeptech company specializing in large-scale tropical forest restoration, leveraging AI and drones and returning native plant species to stripped ecosystems. Tin Hang (Henry) Hung, 29, uses genomics, climate predictions and machine learning to predict vulnerable populations and propose which seed sources are best in the face of climate change. And after leading the first comprehensive review of the effects of climate change on children’s health, Dr. Daniel Helldén, 29, has been awarded a $840,000 grant to lead a program at the University of Calgary combining pediatrics, climate science and advanced computational modeling to assess current and future impacts of climate change on children.
A number of our list makers this year are devoted to discovering and deploying novel solutions that can help us fight everything from autoimmune diseases to unhealthy aging. Working to fight against autoimmunity is biotech startup Granza Bio, cofounded by Ashwin Kumar Jainarayanan, 28. The company is exploring the use of attack particles to transform the treatment of such diseases. Meanwhile, Adewunmi Akingbola, 27, is developing a public health playbook to improve the reliability of real-world data and biases in health studies. He’s gained recognition for his research into Hepatitis C, which is prevalent in his home country of Nigeria.
These listmakers will undoubtedly make waves in the world and their industry for years to come. As for von Reden, she’s excited for what’s next in the fertility space: precision medicine.
“When it comes to fertility care, we finally are in a stage where we make the care about you and not essentially applicable to everyone, which is coming through the doors,” she said. “That’s incredibly exciting for us because ultimately that means that we can enable people to build more families and be happier.”
This year’s list was edited by Pamela Jew, Moya Johnson and Katherine Wessling. For a link to our complete 2025 30 Under 30 Europe Science & Healthcare list, click here, and for full 2025 30 Under 30 Europe coverage, click here.
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