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Editas Medicine

Q: Who are Editas Medicine's co-founders?

Editas Medicine was co-founded by David R. Liu, Feng Zhang, George M. Church, J. Keith Joung and Jennifer Doudna.

Q: What happened to Editas Medicine's founders?

5 people who founded or worked at Editas Medicine went on to start 24 other companies, including David R. Liu (Beam Therapeutics, Prime Medicine and 2 more), Feng Zhang (Beam Therapeutics, Aera Therapeutics and 3 more) and George M. Church (eGenesis, Veritas Genetics and 7 more).

Editas Medicine was founded by David R. Liu, Feng Zhang, George M. Church, J. Keith Joung and Jennifer Doudna. It is a Biotech & Pharma company.

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Editas Medicine founders & co-founders

Where its founders came from

The companies and labs that produced Editas Medicine’s founders.

Harvard University

What happened to Editas Medicine’s founders and alumni

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People who worked at or founded Editas Medicine and went on to start their own companies.

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David R. Liu

4 founded

Beam Therapeutics Prime Medicine Chroma Medicine Plus

Feng Zhang

5 founded

Beam Therapeutics Aera Therapeutics Moonwalk Bio Proof Diagnostics Arbor Biotechnologies

George M. Church

9 founded

eGenesis 2014 Veritas Genetics 2014 Dyno Therapeutics 2018 Nabla Bio 2020 Colossal Biosciences 2021 Nebula Genomics Astromech Manifold Bio EnPlusOne Biosciences

J. Keith Joung

2 founded

Beam Therapeutics Chroma Medicine

Jennifer Doudna

4 founded

Caribou Biosciences 2011 Mammoth Biosciences Intellia Therapeutics Scribe Therapeutics