To mark International Women’s Day this month, we’re featuring some of the female-lead startups and individuals in our digital health community making a difference in health and care!

Find out more about one of members, the “Queen of Bionabu”, Ina Burgstaller.

Healthcare entrepreneur Ina Burgstaller is affectionately know as the Queen of Bionabu by her wide network of contacts in the industry, not least those here at Health Foundry.

She is not actually the monarch of a Disney-inspired island nation but the founder of Bionabu, one of the most exciting healthcare community platforms to launch recently. Bio is derived from the Greek word for life and Nabu is the Babylonian word for wisdom. See what she did there?

A natural multitasker, balancing home life and childcare with the demands of starting a new business, Ina has created a crowd-teaming platform where project sponsors can find validated experts to support their innovative initiatives.

Our grandparents had jobs for life, our parents worked for the same company for decades. We’re averaging 4 years in any one full time position so it seems likely that our children and theirs will be freelancing with portfolio careers in the new world of work.

Which is why Ina’s company is being so successful. With over 200 registered and engaged users, a busy schedule of events, and several live projects on deck, Bionabu makes validated expertise available as-and-when-needed by the sponsors of projects such as research, clinical trials or technical development in digital health and therapeutics.

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Ina and Bionabu has been a great asset to the Health Foundry Community, offering expertise advice to Health Foundry members through monthly Clinical Trial Clinics.

Follow the link here to watch a short interview with Bionabu’s Marketing Lead Mark Walmsley and Ina Burgstaller as she marks International Women’s Day by talking about why she started her business and what's made it successful.