EDITAS MEDICINE INC (EDIT)

Company Profile

Editas Medicine, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of genome editing technology. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 226 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2016-02-03. The firm is focused on developing transformative gene editing medicines to treat a range of serious diseases. The company has developed a gene editing platform based on clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. CRISPR uses a protein-ribonucleic acid (RNA) complex composed of an enzyme, including either CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) or CRISPR from Prevotella and Francisella 1 (Cas12a), bound to a guide RNA molecule designed to recognize a particular deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence. The company is engaged in the development of in vivo administered gene editing medicines, in which the medicine is injected or infused into the patient to edit the cells inside their body. Its lead program, EDIT-301, is an experimental ex vivo gene-edited medicine to treat sickle cell disease (SCD), a severe inherited blood disease that causes premature death, and transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia (TDT).

Company Info

EDITAS MEDICINE INC

11 Hurley St

Cambridge MASSACHUSETTS 02141

P: 16174019000

CEO: James C. Mullen

Employees: 226

Website: https://www.editasmedicine.com/