Founded by pioneers of CRISPR biology

Our mission is to develop innovative, transformative therapies for patients with devastating diseases through novel genome editing


Caribou is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, founded by pioneers in CRISPR genome editing, leveraging our proprietary technology to develop genome-edited off-the-shelf immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. We believe that cell therapies are critical now and for the future of cancer therapy and that advanced genome editing is necessary to develop sophisticated cell therapies to treat a variety of malignancies. We are developing a pipeline of genome-edited, off-the-shelf CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies for a range of tumor types.


Leadership Team

Executive Leadership Team

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Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

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Steve Kanner, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

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Ruhi Khan

Chief Business Officer

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Barbara McClung, J.D.

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

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Jason O’Byrne

Chief Financial Officer

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Syed Rizvi, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer


Board of Directors


Scientific Advisory Board


Collaborations

We are committed to fostering strong partnerships to develop and advance genome-edited therapies. If you are interested in partnering with Caribou, please contact our team.

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Licenses

Caribou has an extensive CRISPR technology IP portfolio, including an exclusive license from The Regents of the University of California and the University of Vienna to the foundational CRISPR-Cas9 IP invented by Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and their colleagues. Caribou licenses this CRISPR-Cas9 IP and certain of its own Cas9 IP to other companies for use in multiple market sectors including but not limited to research tools, transgenic research animals, internal research, diagnostics, and industrial biotechnology. For information regarding licensing, click here.

Caribou has entered into licenses with recognized leaders in many market sectors. Such licenses include:

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Genus plc logo
Helmholtz Zentrum München logo
Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. logo
Intellia Therapeutics, Inc. logo
The Jackson Laboratory logo
Medical Research Council logo
Novartis logo
Novome Biotechnologies, Inc. logo
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd logo
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RenOVAte Biosciences logo
Takara logo
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