Company
Headquarters: Zug, Switzerland
Founded: 2013
Employees: 473
CEO: Dr. Samarth Kulkarni
$4.70 Billion
USD as of April 1, 2022
CRISPR Therapeutics AG, a gene-editing company, focuses on developing transformative gene-based medicines for serious human diseases. The company develops its products using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9), a gene-editing technology that allows for precise directed changes to genomic DNA. It has a portfolio of therapeutic programs in a range of disease areas, including hemoglobinopathies, oncology, regenerative medicine, and rare diseases. The company's lead product candidate is CTX001, an ex vivo CRISPR gene-edited therapy for treating patients suffering from transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia or severe sickle cell disease in which a patient's hematopoietic stem cells are engineered to produce high levels of fetal hemoglobin in red blood cells. It also develops CTX110, a donor-derived gene-edited allogeneic CAR-T therapy targeting cluster of differentiation 19 positive malignancies; CTX120, an investigational therapy targeting B-cell maturation antigen for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma; and CTX130 for the treatment of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. In addition, the company develops regenerative medicine programs; and in vivo and other genetic disease programs to treat glycogen storage disease Ia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy type 1, and cystic fibrosis. It has strategic partnerships with Bayer Healthcare LLC, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, ViaCyte, Inc., Nkarta, Inc., and Capsida Biotherapeutics. The company was formerly known as Inception Genomics AG and changed its name to CRISPR Therapeutics AG in April 2014. CRISPR Therapeutics AG was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
CRISPR Therapeutics AG is a Swiss–American biotechnology company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. In fiscal year 2019, the company had revenues of $289.59 million, with net income of $66.86 million. In the same year, the number of employees stood at 304. As of December 2021, the company had a market capitalization of over $6 billion. CRISPR Therapeutics' investors include German chemical company Bayer. The company operates R&D in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Founder(s): Emmanuelle Charpentier, Shaun Foy and Rodger Novak
Samarth Kulkarni (CEO)
Revenue: US$289.59 million (2019)
Operating income: US$46.74 million (2019)
Net income: US$46.74 million (2019)
Total assets: US$1.067 billion (2019)
CRISPR Therapeutics AG has the following listings and related stock indices.
Stock: NASDAQ: CRSP
Stock: BMV: CRSPN