Collaborators
PureTech and its Founded Entities collaborate with a cross-disciplinary group of experienced clinicians and the world’s leading experts in brain, immune and gut biology.
R. Rox Anderson, MD
Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Laser Center
Caroline Apovian, MD
Director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center
Louis J. Aronne, MD, FACP
Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research at Weill-Cornell Medical College; Director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center
Arne Astrup, MD
Head of the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Copenhagen; Associate Editor of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Dennis Ausiello, MD
Director of the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH); former Chief of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Daphne Bavelier, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and at the University of Geneva
Alan Breier, PhD
Chief of the Psychotic Disorders Program at Indiana University School of Medicine; former Chief Medical Officer at Eli Lilly
George Cotsarelis, MD
Chairman of Dermatology; Milton B. Hartzell Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Geraldine Dawson, PhD
Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development at Duke University; President of the International Society for Autism Research
David Elmaleh, PhD
Director of Contrast Media Chemistry at the Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Julien Epps, PhD
Associate Professor in Signal Processing with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW Australia
Stephen V. Faraone, PhD
Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Physiology; Director of Medical Genetics Research at SUNY Upstate Medical University
Maurizio Fava, MD
Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry; Executive Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Trials Network & Institute
B. Brett Finlay, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Professor at the University of British Columbia
Frederick Frank
Chairman of EVOLUTION Life Sciences Partners (ELSP)
Ken Fujioka, MD
Director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center and the Center for Weight Management in La Jolla California at the Scripps Clinic
Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD
Founding Director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California, San Francisco
Allan Geliebter, PhD
Attending Psychologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
Ramesh Gupta, PhD
Founder of 3P Biotechnologies, Agnes Brown Duggan Chair in Oncological Research at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, and Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at University of Louisville
James O. Hill, PhD
Executive Director of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center; Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
Kenya Honda, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology at the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo
Robert Horvitz, PhD
David H. Koch Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Neurobiologist (Neurology) at Massachusetts General Hospital
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Metabolism & Nutrition Institute; founding Director of Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center
Jeff Karp, PhD
Associate Professor at BWH, Harvard Medical School; Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Principal Investigator at Karp Lab
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD
Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience at University of Virginia School of Medicine; Director at Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)
Scott Kollins, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University; Director of the ADHD Program at Duke University School of Medicine
Harry L. Leider, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Group Vice President at Walgreens
Dan Littman, MD, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Molecular Immunology and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine, member of the Board of Director's at Pfizer
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University School of Medicine
Babak Mehrara, MD
Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Service; Peter G. Cordeiro Endowed Chair in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
George Miller, MD
Director of S. Arthur Localio Laboratories, Vice Chair for Research in NYU, Langone’s Department of Surgery and the Leader of Perlmutter Cancer Center’s Immunology Program
Samir Mitragotri, PhD
Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University; Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Emperor of all Maladies
Atul Pande, MD
Former Senior Vice President, Head of Neuroscience, and Senior Advisor, Pharmaceutical R&D at GlaxoSmithKline
Robert J. Perez
Former Chief Executive Officer of Cubist (acquired by Merck)
Christopher Porter, PhD
Director of the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) at Monash University in Australia
Maria Rescigno, PhD
Professor and Director of the Dendritic Cell Biology and Immunotherapy Unit at European Institute of Oncology
Stanley Rockson, MD
Allan and Tina Neill Professor of Lymphatic Research and Medicine at Stamford Medicine
Howie B. Rosen
Former Vice President of Commercial Strategy at Gilead Sciences, former President of ALZA, a division of Johnson and Johnson
Alexander Rudensky, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Tri-Institutional Professor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Rockefeller University and Cornell University
Robert T. Schultz, PhD
Director of the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Melody Swartz, PhD
Professor at the Institute for Molecular Engineering and Ben May Department for Cancer Research at University of Chicago
Angelo Tremblay, PhD
Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Laval University, Quebec City
Patrick Tso, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Ulrich H. von Andrian, MD, PhD
Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology at Harvard Medical School
Ken Washenik, MD, PhD
President and Chief Medical Director of Bosley Medical Group, and former Chief Executive Officer of Aderans Research Institute
Relationships with several pharma companies or their investment arms
