Meet the 30 biotech leaders under 40 who are searching for breakthrough treatments and shaping the future of medicine

It's an exciting time to be in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

From advances in cancer treatments to using genomics to better understand diseases, to technologies that let you edit, silence, or otherwise manipulate genes, the young leaders in the industry are paving their way through their businesses with biomedical research that sounds closer to science fiction than actual medicine.

Because many of those in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries attend graduate school for years before joining a company, leaders under the age of 40 and especially 30 tend to be less common than in other industries.

Business Insider came up with a list of 30 leaders, through nominations and past coverage, who are shaping the future of medicine. We asked them what the contribution the under-40 generation would have on medicine.

Here's who's doing groundbreaking work as young leaders under 40 in biopharma.