Epic Bio launches with $55 million financing
California, USA-based biotech Epic Bio, which is developing ultracompact therapies to modulate gene expression in vivo, today announced its launch and Series A financing of $55 million.
Epic was founded by Stanley Qi, a renowned bioengineer and named co-inventor on the CRISPR patent held by the University of California. The company’s mission is to develop a new class of genetic medicines that act on the epigenome, a naturally occurring mechanism that determines which genes are expressed and at what levels.
Epic has developed the GEMS (Gene Expression Modulation System) platform to precisely modify gene expression. GEMS includes the largest known library of novel modulators combined with advanced functional and computational genomics capabilities to rapidly design guide RNAs that are highly specific to the targeted genes.
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