M E M B E R O F PVRI Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute

CelebratingCelebrating WorldWorld PHPH DayDay

Date // 5 May 2021

10:00 - 11:00 EDT // 15:00 - 16:00 BST Keynote speaker Dr. Martine Rothblatt Founder & CEO of , USA

Inaugural IDDI Webinar on World Pulmonary Hypertension Day Date // 5 May 2021

PROGRAMME PVRI Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute

10:00 - 11:00 EDT // 15:00 - 16:00 BST Celebratory IDDI webinar

LONGEVITYA bridge to a bridge... Keynote Speaker

Dr. Martine Rothblatt FOUNDER & CEO OF UNITED THERAPEUTICS, USA

Chairs/moderators

Sir Magdi Yacoub THE MAGDI YACOUB INSTITUTE, HEART SCIENCE CENTRE, HAREFIELD HOSPITAL, UK

Professor Werner Seeger PVRI PRESIDENT 2020-22, JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITY GIESSEN, GERMANY

PROGRAMME

Keynote presentation by Dr Martine Rothblatt 10:00 - 10:40 EDT The presentation will summarise what therapies are currently available for patients who suffer 15:00 - 15:40 BST from PH and the technological advances that enable us to develop transplant organs ‘in the lab’ in an attempt to provide patients all over the world with transplant options where currently no transplant registers are available, or there is a very limited supply of suitable organs.

Q&A session 10:40 - 11:00 EDT Moderated by Sir Magdi Yacoub & Professor Werner Seeger 15:40 - 16:00 BST

NOTE: Times indicated are Eastern Daily Time (EDT) and British Summer Time (BST) Dr. Martine Rothblatt

Martine Rothblatt is Chairman & CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company she started to save the life of one of her daughters. The company offers FDA approved medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma and is working on manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable organs.

Dr. Rothblatt previously created and led Sirius XM as represented the radio astronomy community’s its Chairman & CEO and launched other satellite scientific research interests before the Federal systems for navigation and international television Communications Commission. broadcasting. In the field of aviation her Sirius XM satellite system enhances safety with real-time She has Bachelor’s (Communications Studies, Summa digital weather information to pilots in flight Cum Laude), JD (Order of the Coif) and MBA degrees nationwide. She also designed the world’s first from UCLA, which in 2018 awarded her its highest electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world recognition, the UCLA Medal, as well as a Ph.D. in record for speed, altitude and flight duration. Medical Ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine & Dentistry. Her patented inventions In the legal arena, Dr. Rothblatt led efforts of the cover aspects of satellite communication, medicinal community to establish their own biochemistry and cognitive software. health law standards, and of the International Bar Association to protect autonomy rights in genetic Dr. Rothblatt’s recent books are on information via an international treaty. She also xenotransplantation (Your Life or Mine), gender published dozens of scholarly articles and papers identity (Transgender to ) and cyberethics on the law of outer space, resulting in her election (Virtually Human). She occasionally posts on Instagram to the International Institute of Space Law, and @transbinary and Twitter @skybiome. n Join us on 5 May to celebrate World Pulmonary Hypertension Day 2021 An annual global event to raise awareness of pulmonary hypertension

Today’s work tomorrow’s possibility...

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