From Nokia To Thyroid Monitoring – Via The Digital Hearing Aid Industry

Risk Averse Business Developer Sees Skills Converge In Targeted Home Monitoring Solution

Medtech was not on Jesper Kimer’s radar when pioneering mobile phone company Nokia took him into its graduate program. A few career turns later, having fulfilled a desire to become an entrepreneur, his expertise and interests met in the middle when he co-founded thyroid disorder home monitoring start-up, HEI Therapeutics.

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The case for home-monitoring of hypothyroidism is not obvious; not to everyone, that is. Jesper Kimer, head of the Danish start-up HEI Therapeutics, says as much.

“The technology is complex to succeed in. And because thyroid medication is a generic drug, pharma doesn’t have a big...

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