UNC's Mugdha Gokhale makes Forbes 30 under 30 in Healthcare

From an initial screening list of more than 15,000 of the best of the best, the 600 women and men featured in the Forbes fifth annual 30 Under 30 are America’s most important young entrepreneurs, creative leaders and brightest stars. Name a business sector, social issue or essential institution, they are taking it on and changing the rules of the game– or creating entirely new playbooks. (ref.)

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Mugdha Gokhale, 29
PhD candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Do new antidiabetics increase the risk of pancreatic cancer? Maybe, according to this drug safety researcher. With the help of the NC TraCS Institute's CER Initiative, Gokhale looks at large health databases to try and figure out how safe and effective medicines are in the real world, outside the hermetic world of clinical trials.

She also holds a bachelor's degree in Indian classical music.