PureTech Health: Applying Deep Thinking And Business Acumen

Targeting the age-dependent decline in immune function is the aim of a new PureTech Health subsidiary, resTORbio, that has licensed two clinical-stage mTORC1 inhibitors from Novartis.

Three leaves

If you had a company board featuring a future-focused academic, a Nobel Prize winner and hard-headed ex-Big Pharma executives, where would you be investing your R&D efforts?

Chances are you would be applying their insights to some of the seemingly more intransigent issues in biology, such as...

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