Heptares to Moderate Panel on Rare Diseases at BBC New York CEO Meeting (13-14 February)

WELWYN GARDEN CITY, England and BOSTON, February 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Heptares Therapeutics, the leading GPCR drug discovery company, announces that its President, Dan Grau, will attend the Boston Biotech Conference New York CEO Meeting taking place on 13-14 February at Apella in New York City, NY, USA, at which he will moderate a panel on Rare Diseases (3:30pm EST, 14 February).

For a full list of events at which Heptares will be present, please visit http://www.heptares.com

About Heptares Therapeutics

Heptares creates new medicines targeting clinically important, yet historically challenging, GPCRs (G protein-coupled receptors), a superfamily of drug receptors linked to a wide range of human diseases. Leveraging our advanced structure-based drug design technology platform, we have built an exciting discovery and development pipeline of novel drug candidates, which have the potential to transform the treatment of serious diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, migraine and diabetes. Our pharmaceutical partners include Shire, AstraZeneca, MedImmune, Takeda and Cubist, and we are backed by MVM Life Science Partners, Clarus Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund and Takeda Ventures. To learn more about Heptares, please visit http://www.heptares.com.

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