Forbes' Matthew Herper lists the "the top 30 rising stars in science and health," a list that includes a few 'omics names. The list, he adds, was generated with the help of Forbes producers and three judges: Yale's Harlan Krumholz, Harvard's George Church, and Andy Plump from Sanofi.
On it are UCLA's Christina Agapakis, who works on synthetic biology; Immumetrix's Christina Fan, who focuses on prenatal genetic testing; and Caltech's Mitchell Guttman, who helped uncover lincRNAs; Isaac Kinde at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who is working to improve the accuracy of DNA sequencing technology; and Adina Mangubat at Spiral Genetics, who is offering a cloud-based solution to manage DNA sequencing data, among others.