OREANDA-NEWS. January 21, 2016. PureTech Health plc ("PureTech" or the "Company", LSE: PRTC), a cross-disciplinary healthcare company developing novel medicines to tackle fundamental healthcare needs in disruptive ways, announces its first Capital Markets Meeting as a London Listed Company. The Company will provide insight into its strategy, progress of the Company's operating companies, and insights into new areas of unmet medical need being explored.

The meeting will take place in London on Tuesday 10 May 2016 from 13.00-17.00 BST and will feature PureTech presenters including members of the Company's Board of Directors. 

Presenters at the event include:

·     Daphne Zohar, Co-Founder & CEO of PureTech

·     Joi Ito, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PureTech; Director of the MIT Media Lab

·     Raju Kucherlapati, PhD, Independent Non-Executive Director, Scientific Advisory Board Member of PureTech; Co-Founder of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Abgenix

·     John LaMattina, PhD, Independent Non-Executive Director of PureTech; former President of Pfizer Global Research and Development

·     Marjorie Scardino, Senior Independent Director of PureTech; former CEO of The Economist and of Pearson plc, Chairman of the MacArthur Foundation Board

·     Ben Shapiro, MD, Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director of PureTech; former Executive Vice President of Research for Merck

·     Christopher Viehbacher, Independent Non-Executive Director of PureTech; former CEO of Sanofi

·     Joseph Bolen, PhD, Entrepreneur-In-Residence, PureTech; former President and Chief Scientific Officer at Moderna Therapeutics and former Chief Scientific Officer and Global Head of Oncology Research at Millennium

·     Marko Ahtisaari, CEO and Co-Founder of the Sync Project

·     Bernat Olle, PhD, CEO of Vedanta Biosciences

·     Jan Skvarka, President, CEO of Tal Medical

·     Eddie Martucci, PhD, CEO of Akili Interactive Labs

·     Additional members of the PureTech leadership team

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