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October 8, 2019

Escaping the grasp of Big Pharma — how one Nordic life science startup is carving its own route

With investors giving medtech startups the shoulder, founders turn to the stock exchange or Big Pharma to survive. Sigrid Therapeutics has found a different path.


Mimi Billing

5 min read

Sana Alajmovic is the chief executive and cofounder of the medtech startup Sigrid Therapeutics.

Sana Alajmovic is an unusual life science cofounder. She is young, she is a woman, she is outspoken and she’s more business than science. And she is not relying on Big Pharma to acquire her company.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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