The entrepreneur
Scientist Crystal Icenhour earned her PhD as a medical researcher, but bucked the trend and didn’t want to go into academia. While trying to figure out her next move, a friend steered her to the University of Virginia, where a professor there was looking for someone to run the research arm of a company he started. That’s how Icenhour’s first “real” job became co-founding and running a biotech start-up in Charlottesville, Va. that fought intestinal parasites.
