CRISPR Therapeutics is the gene-editing company co-founded by Emmanuelle Charpentier that shares Casgevy with Vertex and is building off-the-shelf CAR-T cells such as CTX112 for lymphoma and autoimmune disease.
CRISPR Therapeutics, headquartered in Zug with research in Boston, uses CRISPR/Cas9 to make gene-edited medicines. With Vertex it brought exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy) to approval for sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia. In oncology it develops allogeneic CAR-T cells made from healthy donor T cells: CTX112 targets CD19 in B-cell malignancies and lupus, and CTX131 targets CD70 in solid tumours and haematological cancers. The company also has in vivo editing programmes for cardiovascular disease.
CTX112 is an experimental CAR-T cell therapy from CRISPR Therapeutics in phase 2 trials for hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and follicular lymphoma, aimed at CD19.