Sir John Bell

for me and for my wife, Samantha.

And, you know, nobody could tell us anything about what was going on.

And, you know, we weren't looking for a cure, but it would have really helped if somebody said, we know what it is, we know what the cause is, we'll chip away and maybe there will be something we can do, but at least you know the answer.

So anyway, he gave us very strong support and said to the NHS, can you please get on and do it?

Again, massive resistance, Eric, as you can imagine.

All the clinical geneticists said, oh my God, what are they doing?

It's a complete disaster.

So anyway, we put on our tin hats and went out and got the thing going.

And again, they did a really good job.

The idea was to get 100,000 genomes done in a reasonable time frame.

I think five years we set ourselves.

People often underestimate the parallel development of technology, which is always going on.

And so that really enabled us to get that done.

And it still continues.

They're doing a big neonatal program at the moment, which is really exciting.

And then I was asked by Theresa May to build a life sciences strategy because the UK, you know, we do this stuff, you know, not as big and broad as America, but for a small country, we do life sciences pretty well.

That's an understatement, by the way.

A big understatement.

Yeah.

Anyway, so I wrote the...