I’m having a hard time splitting my thoughts between the events in Louisiana & Mississippi and the day-to-day stuff I need to get done, so I’m going to write a little more about the latter. I hope you don’t take it to mean that I’m glossing over what’s going on down there. If anything, I’m feeling this constant drain as I try to grasp the concept of a city that’s dying at high speed, while I’m racked with worry about the health and security of my future in-laws. <\/p>\n
All of which is a preface to saying that I had a nice professional moment this morning. When I got the office, I received an e-mail from a guy at the European Commission in Brussels, asking if it’s okay to cite my Top Pharma\/Biopharma Companies<\/a> report in his new paper on Biotech and Applied Genomics R&D in Europe.<\/p>\n He sent an early copy of the study\/proposal, which was mainly about how the EU has lagged in Biotech R&D. It had some neat suggestions for what they need to do to regain a competitive position vis-a-vis the U.S. and Asia (mainly the U.S.), but I was just gratified that all the work I did earlier this summer proved valuable enough for a government agency to base some of its findings.<\/p>\n In that same vein, a friend of mine called last night to see how I’m doing and what I’m up to in September. “Well, I said, I’ve gotta write the second part of my Biomarkers article, interview some people about Pharma\/Biopharma facility design, get a lot of materials ready for our annual conference<\/a>, and edit a bunch of contributed articles for the mag. At night I’ll be working my way through a re-read of Don Quixote<\/a>, before my trip to Madrid in November<\/a>.”<\/p>\n She thought I was complaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m having a hard time splitting my thoughts between the events in Louisiana & Mississippi and the day-to-day stuff I need to get done, so I’m going to write a little more about the latter. I hope you don’t take it to mean that I’m glossing over what’s going on down there. If anything, I’m … <\/p>\n