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About Jennifer Hintzsche

Dr. Jenn Hintzsche is on a mission to market the first FDA-cleared over-the-counter assisted reproduction kit to provide hope for millions struggling to get pregnant. Dr. Jenn holds a Ph.D. in bioinformatics and has authored 24+ peer-reviewed scientific articles. Dr. Jenn, after getting married in 2016, struggled to conceive for a year before being diagnosed with unexplained infertility in 2017.  Fertility specialists told her that expensive fertility options were her only chance at becoming a mother.  Instead, Dr. Jenn took her fertility into her own hands and started digging into the scientific literature.  After 16 months, Hintzsche and her husband Ryan, a mechanical engineer, invented The PherDal Kit.  They used their now-patented medical device to conceive their daughter in just the second month of use.

Knowing she could help others struggling with infertility, Dr. Jenn started PherDal (pronounced "fertile" but spelled with a Ph.D.) to help others have an affordable and safe fertility option.  PherDal’s 200 proof-of-concept kits sold out in 90 days, with 30 reported pregnancies.  In 2022 PherDal crowdfunded over $630K to pay for FDA clearance testing and was a top 5 finalist for healthcare at the 2023 SXSW Pitch competition, and Dr. Jenn was a featured innovator in LSI’s Emerging MedTech Conference in 2023. Dr. Jenn is leading her team of medical, legal, and health tech experts to bring the first and only sterile, FDA-cleared, over-the-counter assisted reproduction kit to the market in 2023.