Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> November 17, 2008
DR. WILLIAM R. PRATHER, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at
Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc., is a Registered Pharmacist as well as a Board
Certified Internist and Geriatrician. He received his BS in Pharmacy and Medical
degree from the University of Missouri. He practiced internal medicine in the
Kansas City, Missouri, and Vail, Colorado, areas until leaving internal medicine
in 1987 to pursue a Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Harvard University. He
completed this fellowship in 1989. In 1992, Dr. Prather left the practice of
medicine to pursue a career in the financial industry where he has held senior
healthcare research positions for a variety of investment banks. Dr. Prather co-
founded Panacos, Inc., a public pharmaceutical company. Additionally, he has
been on the Boards of several public and private companies, including Boston
Biomedica Inc. (a public medical diagnostics company), PriMed (a private medical
device company), MdBio (a Maryland healthcare venture firm), and he sat on the
Advisory Board of MDS Capital Management, a Canadian venture firm. Profile
Dr. Prather: Pluristem Therapeutics is a NASDAQ-traded public company that
actually first came into being as a public
