Editas Medicine Reports on Recent Progress and Outlook at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a leading genome editing company, today announced that James C. Mullen, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, will discuss the Company’s recent progress and outlook for its gene editing medicines and platform technology at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference being held virtually on Wednesday, January 12 at 10:30 a.m. EST.
- Using a dual-vector approach with a AsCas12a nuclease, Editas Medicine has enhanced productive editing by approximately 350% compared to the initial construct.
- Editas Medicine has announced the development candidate EDIT-202, a highly differentiated, iPSC-derived natural killer cell (iNK) investigational medicine with double knock-in and double knock-out edits.
- Editas Medicine continues to evaluate the application of its iPSC platform to additional cell types beyond iNK and alpha-beta T cells.
- Editas Medicine aims to discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize transformative, durable, precision genomic medicines for a broad class of diseases.