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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001070081-17-000100
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20170602
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170606
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20170606

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			PTC THERAPEUTICS, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001070081
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
		IRS NUMBER:				043416587
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		100 CORPORATE COURT
		CITY:			SOUTH PLAINFIELD
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07080-2449
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9082227000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		100 CORPORATE COURT
		CITY:			SOUTH PLAINFIELD
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07080-2449

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	PTC THERAPEUTICS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19980909

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Utter Christine Marie
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001707685

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-35969
		FILM NUMBER:		17895203

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O PTC THERAPEUTICS, INC.
		STREET 2:		100 CORPORATE COURT
		CITY:			SOUTH PLAINFIELD
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07080
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        <footnote id="F1">Includes 3,900 shares of Restricted Stock Units awarded to the Reporting Person, which vests in four equal annual installments over four years, commencing on January 3, 2018.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Currently exercisable.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">This option was granted on January 28, 2014 and vests over four years, with 25% of the shares underlying the option vested on January 28, 2015, and an additional 6.25% of the original number of shares underlying the option vesting at the end of each successive three-month period thereafter, beginning on April 28, 2015.</footnote>
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        <footnote id="F6">This option was granted on January 4, 2016 and vests over four years, with 25% of the shares underlying the option vested on January 4, 2017, and an additional 6.25% of the original number of shares underlying the option vesting at the end of each successive three-month period thereafter, beginning on April 4, 2017.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">This option was granted on January 3, 2017 and vests over four years, with 25% of the shares underlying the option vesting on January 3, 2018, and an additional 6.25% of the original number of shares underlying the option vesting at the end of each successive three-month period thereafter, beginning on April 3, 2018.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>Avraham S. Adler, attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2017-06-06</signatureDate>
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints each of Donald Mankoff, Mark Boulding, Colleen Diver Johnson, Avraham Adler and Martin Rexroad, signing singly and each acting individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney in fact with full power and authority as hereinafter described to:
(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder (the "Exchange Act");
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to prepare, complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, prepare, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely deliver and file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority;
(3) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information regarding transactions in the Company's securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to such attorney in fact and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and
(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney in fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney in fact may approve in such attorney in fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact, or such attorney in fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys in fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming nor relieving, nor is the Company assuming nor relieving, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act. The undersigned acknowledges that neither the Company nor the foregoing attorneys in fact assume (i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the requirement of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys in fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 6th day of June, 2017.

/s/Christine Utter
Signature

Christine Utter
Print Name
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