Board & R&D Committee

Dennis Ausiello, MD
R&D Committee and Board Advisor
Dennis Ausiello, MD, is a board advisor and member of the PureTech R&D Committee. He is the Jackson Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine and was previously director, emeritus of the MD/PhD Program at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ausiello is chairman of medicine, emeritus and director of the Center for Assessment...MORE

Robert Horvitz, PhD
Board Advisor & R&D Committee Chair
Robert Horvitz, PhD, is a Board Advisor and Chair of the R&D Committee at PureTech Health. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is the David H. Koch Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Neurobiologist (Neurology)...MORE

Raju Kucherlapati, PhD
Independent Non-Executive Director, R&D Committee Member
Raju Kucherlapati, PhD, is an Independent Non-Executive Director at PureTech Health and a member of the R&D Committee. He was a founder and formerly a Board member of Abgenix (acquired by Amgen), and Millennium Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Takeda), and is currently the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and a...MORE

John LaMattina, PhD
Independent Non-Executive Director
John LaMattina, PhD, is an Independent Non-Executive Director at PureTech Health and was previously President of Pfizer Global Research and Development and Senior Vice President of Pfizer, Inc. During his 30 year career at Pfizer Inc., Dr. LaMattina held positions of increasing responsibility for Pfizer Central Research, including Vice President of...MORE

Robert Langer, ScD
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, R&D Committee Member
Robert Langer, ScD, is a co-founder and Non-Executive Director at PureTech Health and sits on PureTech Health's R&D Committee and the Boards of PureTech Health and Entrega. Dr. Langer is known for his groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of polymer chemistry, controlled drug delivery, and tissue engineering. He is the...MORE

Stephen Muniz, JD
Chief Operating Officer
Stephen Muniz, JD, is the Chief Operating Officer and a member of PureTech Health’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining PureTech Health, Mr. Muniz was a Partner in the Corporate Department of Locke Lord LLP, where he practiced law for 10 years. Mr. Muniz’s practice at Locke Lord LLP focused...MORE

Marjorie Scardino
Senior Independent Director
Dame Marjorie Scardino is the Senior Independent Director of PureTech Health’s Board of Directors. She served as Chief Executive of The Economist for 12 years and then from 1997 through 2012 was the Chief Executive of Pearson plc, the world's leading education company and the owner of Penguin Books and...MORE

Ben Shapiro, MD
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, R&D Committee Member
Ben Shapiro, MD, is a Co-founder and Non-Executive Director at PureTech Health and sits on the R&D Committee. He was previously Executive Vice President of Research for Merck. In this position, he was responsible for all basic and preclinical research activities at Merck worldwide. Dr. Shapiro led the research program that...MORE

Christopher Viehbacher
Interim Chairman of the Board of Directors
Christopher Viehbacher is the Managing Partner of Gurnet Point Capital. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Boston Pharmaceuticals and of Vedanta Biosciences as well as the Vice-Chair of Nuvelution. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Pronutria. Mr. Viehbacher is a Trustee...MORE

Daphne Zohar
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Daphne Zohar is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PureTech Health (PRTC.L) and a member of the Board of Directors. PureTech Health is an advanced, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines targeting serious diseases that result from dysfunctions in the nervous, immune, and gastrointestinal systems (brain-immune-gut or the “BIG”...MORE