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PureTech Adds Bharatt Chowrira, PureTech’s President and Chief of Business and Strategy, to Board of Directors
January 29, 2021 GMT
PureTech announced the appointment of Bharatt Chowrira, Ph.D., J.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Chowrira has served as PureTech’s President and Chief of Business and Strategy since March 2017. (Photo: Business Wire)
PureTech announced the appointment of Bharatt Chowrira, Ph.D., J.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Chowrira has served as PureTech’s President and Chief of Business and Strategy since March 2017. (Photo: Business Wire)
PureTech Adds Bharatt Chowrira, PureTech s President and Chief of Business and Strategy, to Board of Directors
PureTech Health plc (LSE: PRTC, Nasdaq: PRTC) ( PureTech or the Company ), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated medicines for devastating diseases, today announces the appointment of Bharatt Chowrira, Ph.D., J.D., to its Board of Directors as an executive director. Dr. Chowrira has served as PureTech s President and Chief of Business and Strategy since March 2017 and will continue in that role as an executive director of the Company. Dr. Chowrira s appointment is effective from February 1, 2021. Bharatt has made a big impact since joining PureTech in 2017 and he continues to make key contributions as we advance our clinical pipeline toward key value-driving milestones, said Daphne Zohar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PureTech
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WASHINGTON The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, social, and medical sciences.
Dana Longcope, Montana State University, will receive the Arctowski Medal for fundamental research on the nature of solar magnetism, magnetic topology, and reconnection. The medal is presented with a $100,000 prize, and $100,000 to support research in solar physics and solar terrestrial relationships.
Patrick Keeling, University of British Columbia, will receive the Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal for excellence in published research on marine and freshwater algae. The medal is presented with $50,000 prize.
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Four MIT scientists are among the 20 recipients of the 2021 Academy Honors for major contributions to science, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced at its annual meeting. The individuals are recognized for their “extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, social, and medical sciences.”
The awards recognize: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, for contributions to the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology through his discovery of correlated insulator behavior and unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices; Aviv Regev, for using interdisciplinary information or techniques to solve a contemporary challenge; Susan Solomon, for contributions to understanding and communicating the causes of ozone depletion and climate change; and Feng Zhang, for pioneering achievements developing CRISPR tools with the potential to diagnose and treat disease.
Society for Science Names New Members to its Honorary Board
Six Distinguished Scientists and Engineers Join Honorary Board
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Society for Science named six new members to its Honorary Board, which provides the Society with strategic guidance and input on scientific issues of importance to the Society. The 28-member board is made up to distinguished scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators who are recognized leaders in their fields.
The new members are:
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Member, MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Member, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research