Editas Medicine

"CRISPR-based therapeutics developer Editas Medicine has agreed to provide up to $125 million in research funding to the Broad Institute in exchange for the exclusive right to be the first to negotiate for licenses to genome-editing inventions that arise from the sponsored research... Editas was founded in 2013. Its scientific founders include Harvard professor George Church; MIT assistant professor Feng Zhang; University of California at Berkeley professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Jennifer Doudna; Harvard associate professor Keith Joung; and Harvard professor and HHMI investigator David Liu." [1]

• Cindy Collins is President and Chief Executive Officer of Editas Medicine.