I write on a day of unexpected personal and professional convergence. This past week, I spent long days in strategic discussions on enabling cell and gene therapy programmes—expanding access to advanced therapeutics and building infrastructure so that patients in our region might benefit from innovation at home rather than waiting for it to become available elsewhere. The work was forward-looking and ambitious. Yet I awoke today to news and sounds of interception explosions that, for the first time, felt unexpectedly and uncomfortably close to my new home, the United Arab Emirates.
I write on a day of unexpected personal and professional convergence. This past week, I spent long days in strategic discussions on enabling cell and gene therapy programmes—expanding access to advanced therapeutics and building infrastructure so that patients in our region might benefit from innovation at home rather than waiting for it to become available elsewhere. The work was forward-looking and ambitious. Yet I awoke today to news and sounds of interception explosions that, for the first time, felt unexpectedly and uncomfortably close to my new home, the United Arab Emirates.