PureTech Health plc (PRTC) Presents at 44th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Transcript

Bhavana Balakrishnan

Good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today on day 3 of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference. My name is Bhavana Balakrishnan. I’m an associate with the Healthcare Investment Banking team. Today, we’re joined by the management of PureTech. And with us, we have Robert Lyne, Chief Executive Officer; Eric Elenko, Co-Founder and President. Over to you, Robert.

Robert Lyne
CEO & Director

Wonderful. Thank you very much, Bhavana, and thank you for everyone who’s turned up today and for those who are joining on the webcast. I’m delighted to be here and thank JPMorgan for the opportunity to present to you all. So as Bhavana said, I’m Robert Lyne. I’m the CEO here at PureTech Health. I’ve been in the business 2 years now. I’ve previously held a number of senior leadership roles and CEO roles in various London-listed life science businesses and was delighted to step into the CEO role here at PureTech at the end of last year. So as we move through the presentation, there may be a number of forward-looking statements that we’ll be making. I’ll refer you to our SEC filings in that regard.

So as an introduction to PureTech Health, we have a proven hub-and-spoke model for drug development. So what does that mean? And how does that differentiate us from other drug development businesses? Well, what we do is we take a derisked diversified approach to developing a number of potential new therapeutic treatments for patients. We do this with a hub approach where a centralized lean, efficient hub looks at novel opportunities to develop dramatically different treatments