1. Fatma Almulla

Age: 28
Occupation: Vice President of GKSD Healthcare Middle East and Chief Development Officer for the Gulf region
Nationality: Emirati
Residence: U.K.
Category: Science & Technology

Almulla is part of GKSD Healthcare Middle East’s executive strategic planning team, where she is responsible for leading the development operation and identifying funding sources. She is also a project manager for the smart clinic fund that plans to establish six smart clinic hospitals in the Gulf region within the next three years. During the pandemic, her team at the University College London worked in collaboration with Oxford University and AstraZeneca to develop the AstraZeneca vaccine. She also worked on designing and developing a biological reactor to extract plasmids with quality standards that meet the FDA requirements for vaccination and gene therapy applications.