Founder / entrepreneur

By Xisca Borrás and Ellie Handy of the life sciences regulatory department at Bristows law firm Femtech, short for female technology, is an important and fast growing sector. The EU is a key market for femtech, with five of the top 10 countries for femtech investment located in the EU. Femtech products are developed for [...]

By James Jackson, CEO at Digostics Gestational diabetes (GDM) is one of the most under-recognised challenges in maternity care today. Despite affecting around one in five pregnancies in the UK, GDM remains a blind spot in policy and practice, with devastating consequences for women and their children. New research continues to expose the [...]

By Dominique Kent, CEO, Bluecrest As women, we spend much of our lives juggling, I know this from my own experience. Running a business, raising a family, caring for parents as they get older, the list is endless. Somewhere in the mix, our own health slips down the priority list. That is why the idea [...]

By Dr Amina Hersi, GP and Founder of Polybiotics For too long, women’s health has been treated as an afterthought. Funding remains limited, particularly when our conditions are framed solely as reproductive.   Ask any woman living with PCOS, endometriosis or adenomyosis if their experience begins and ends with fertility. They will tell [...]

Sara Davies, acclaimed TV broadcaster and trailblazing entrepreneur, will be joining Women’s Health Week Europe as a guest speaker to open the main event at Women’s Health Week Europe this October. The announcement marks a significant moment for women’s health innovation, as one of the UK’s most recognisable investors steps onto the WHW stage to spotlight the [...]

By Tirza Jova, Founder & CEO, Milk by Mom Planning my first cross-country trip as a new mom, I pictured the airport obstacle course: hard cooler, melting ice packs, and the dread that one delay could undo weeks of effort. Then I discovered freeze-drying my breast milk. We live in a world with autonomous cars [...]

By Paula Bellostas Muguerza, Global Lead, Healthcare and Life Sciences at Kearney The lack of female representation in clinical research is finally getting the recognition it deserves as a driving factor of the gender health gap. With only 7 per cent of healthcare research focused on conditions that exclusively impact women’s health, it’s an area [...]

By Ruby Raut, Founder & CEO of WUKA At WUKA, we’ve always believed that no girl should feel sidelined by her period. As a sustainable, innovation-led period underwear brand, our mission goes far beyond products — it’s deeply personal. I grew up in Nepal, where menstruation was steeped in stigma. I wasn’t allowed in the [...]

By Dr Somi Javaid, OB/GYN, surgeon and founder of HerMD A patient once came to me with a folder full of app screenshots; five different trackers, each with its own opinion about her ovulation, hormone levels, and supposed "menopause stage." She was overwhelmed, confused, and frustrated. And she’s not alone. In the last [...]

Pregnolia is on a mission to transform pregnancy care by bringing an often-overlooked biomarker into clinical practice. Stephanie Price speaks to founder and CEO Dr. Sabrina Badir to find out more. Paying closer clinical attention to cervical stiffness could hold the key to better outcomes for high-risk pregnancies. That is according to Pregnolia, a Swiss [...]