SHENZHEN, China – Thirty-three female changemakers were celebrated at the 2024 Cartier Women’s Initiative awards ceremony last week in Shenzhen. First-, second- and third-place awards were given out for nine region-specific categories and two thematic categories.
The next day, there were hundreds of kids who had trekked over mountains to seek treatment from her, the 55-year-old tells ST. “But all they had was this very simple condition called middle-ear infection, or glue ear.” The setback haunted her after she returned to Singapore. She realised it was “not a poor man’s problem”.
She put Mr Gan on her payroll and involved him in patient consultations, hearing evaluations, surgery and cadaver studies to better understand the process and challenges. Things got trickier around 2018, when Dr Lim left as vice-dean of the medical faculty at NUS and vice-chairman of the medical board at NUH – stunning fellow faculty members – to join the private sector after 20 years in public practice.
Dr Lynne Lim left a prestigious career in public healthcare to find solutions to accessible ear surgery and start medtech company NousQ. PHOTO: CARTIER Today, many of her investors are doctors and individuals in healthcare and finance who believe in her cause. Most significant is the access to connections in various countries – from Britain to Nigeria. “This has plugged me to the whole world. The Cartier credibility and network have just opened so many doors.”NousQ has currently raised half of its US$6.5 million goal, to help start FDA -pivotal trials of CLiKX in the US. The regulatory approval would fast-track the device’s acceptance in numerous markets.
“I never thought babies could be so cute, but after he was born in 2019, I realised I would do anything for this little bundle of joy. It really shifted my perspective to try to do something good while I’m on this planet,” says the founder of plastic-free solutions company Equo, which took home third place in the South Asia category at the 2024 CWI and a US$30,000 grant.
While exploring the city for the first time, she went cafe-hopping – and was surprised to find a grass straw in her juice. She dug deeper and was struck by the history behind grass straws. “Vietnam is a great place for innovation, but not a lot of people look at it as a country that is capable of that. They still think of it as war-torn, third-world and unsafe – and that’s a perception I really wanted to change.”
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