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Daphne Zohar Managing partner, PureTech Ventures, Boston Zohar, who founded PureTech, is one of the biotechnology industry's most successful 'packagers,' assembling teams of researchers, executives, and scientific advisors and helping them raise money for new ventures. Companies she has helped launch are working on treatments for hair loss, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and schizophrenia. One of the newest, Libra, is working on treatments 'based on the emerging understanding of the human as a super-organism, given that 90 percent of the cells in our bodies are microbes and not 'human,' ' she explains.
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By Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent

Daphne Zohar

Managing partner, PureTech Ventures, Boston

Zohar, who founded PureTech, is one of the biotechnology industry's most successful "packagers," assembling teams of researchers, executives, and scientific advisors and helping them raise money for new ventures. Companies she has helped launch are working on treatments for hair loss, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, and schizophrenia. One of the newest, Libra, is working on treatments "based on the emerging understanding of the human as a super-organism, given that 90 percent of the cells in our bodies are microbes and not 'human,' " she explains.