Meet Insider’s 30 leaders under 40 transforming healthcare

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:

• Meet this year's 30 leaders under 40 transforming healthcare;
• United Health Group's Optum is wading into the direct-to-consumer world;
• Moderna's CEO spelled out his M&A strategy and what the company is looking for in gene editing.

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Meet the 30 young leaders forging a new future for the healthcare industry in 2021

• A generation of leaders is transforming the healthcare industry.
• They include doctors, scientists, execs, and founders who are improving how we keep people healthy.
• Out of hundreds of nominations, Insider selected 30 leaders under 40 transforming healthcare.

Read our full list here>>

The biggest US healthcare company is jumping into the red-hot direct-to-consumer prescription market

• Industry giant UnitedHealth Group is pushing into the direct-to-consumer healthcare market.
• The company's Optum business is selling generic drugs and virtual care to people who pay with cash.
• The move brings new competition to digital-health upstarts such as Ro and Hims.

Find out more>>

Moderna's CEO spells out its new M&A strategy, including what the $160 billion biotech is looking for in gene editing

• Thinking beyond COVID-19, Moderna is planning to get into the gene therapy and editing space.
• CEO Stephane Bancel said he'd like to license in new enzymes to use in gene editing.
• A full acquisition of a gene-editing company is unlikely, he said, because of the rich valuations.

Here's what Bancel said>>

More stories we're reading:

• The CEO of the anti-aging foundation cofounded by Aubrey de Grey left amid an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against de Grey (Stat News)
• Rates of children hospitalized with COVID-19 have reached an all-time high in the US (Insider)
• What happens when algorithms get involved with opioid prescribing (Wired)
• How one woman overcame her vaccine hesitancy: 'You call them anti-vaxxers - I believe a lot of them are just afraid' (Insider)

- Lydia