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Top 10 Under 40
Up-and-Coming Stars Shine in Biopharma Research and Business

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Click Image To Enlarge +Carefree youth could not be further from the very busy, and very accomplished, early-career years of the 10 people selected by GEN for this year’s “Top 10 Under 40” list.
“One of the very advantages of youth,” Mark Twain observed in 1895, is “you don't own any stock in anything. You have a good time, and all the grief and trouble is with the other fellows.” The carefree youth described by Twain, piloting steamboats on the Mississippi River, could not be further from the very busy, and very accomplished, early career years of the 10 people selected by GEN for this year’s “Top 10 Under 40” list.
In past years, GEN “Under 40” lists consisted entirely of business executives or investigators. This year’s list combines professionals in biopharma research and/or business, all of whom have been recognized for their achievements, and who are under 40 years old as verified by their employers, or as reported in publications that have included them in their own “Under 40” lists.
Six of this year’s 10 have backgrounds in research, and the rest have experience either in business or a combination of research and business. Interestingly, more than half of GEN’s “Top 10 Under 40” are women—no small distinction given the growing attention paid to diversity in biopharma.
As for those whose age precludes them from consideration in this or other “Under 40” lists, perhaps some comfort can be found in the words of an Irish author and poet who lived a century after Twain: “You are as young as you feel,” John O’Donohue observed. “If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.”
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