Top 10 Gene Therapy startups in USA

Updated: May 05, 2024

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Funding: $3.4B
Bluebird Bio offers products based on the transformative potential of gene therapy for patients with genetic and orphan diseases.
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Funding: $1.5B
Intellia is a leading genome editing company focused on the development of proprietary, potentially curative therapeutics utilizing a recently developed biological tool known as the CRISPR/Cas9 system. We believe that the CRISPR/Cas9 technology has the potential to transform medicine by permanently editing diseased genes in the human body through a single treatment course. We intend to leverage our leading scientific expertise, clinical development experience and intellectual property position to unlock broad therapeutic applications of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing and develop a potential new drug class.
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Funding: $1.2B
ElevateBio is a biotechnology company that specializes in cell and gene-based therapies.
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Funding: $931.6M
Editas Medicine's mission is to translate its genome editing technology into a novel class of human therapeutics that enable precise and corrective molecular modification to treat the underlying cause of a broad range of diseases at the genetic level.
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Funding: $763.8M
Spark is a leader in the field of gene therapy, seeking to transform the lives of patients by developing potential one-time, life-altering treatments for debilitating genetic diseases. We initially are applying our integrated platform to treat rare diseases where no, or only palliative, therapies exist.
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Funding: $700M
Sana Biotechnology is a developer of engineered cells intended to be used as medicine for patients. It's deploying a platform that can repair and control genes in cells or replace any cell in the body.
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Funding: $692.3M
Kriya Therapeutics is a next-generation gene therapy company focused on designing and developing transformative new treatments.
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Funding: $546.1M
Sangamo is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of engineered zinc finger DNA-binding proteins (ZFPs) as novel ZFP Therapeutics targeting various monogenic and infectious diseases with unmet medical needs.
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Funding: $536.4M
Generation Bio is a biotechnology company developing a breakthrough class of genetic medicines to enable a new generation of people unaffected by inherited disease. The company’s therapies are based on its proprietary GeneWave technology, which delivers durable, high levels of gene expression and can be re-dosed to titrate to effect and to sustain impact over a lifetime.
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Funding: $531.8M
Tessera Therapeutics is pioneering Gene Writing - a new genome engineering technology that writes therapeutic messages into the genome to treat diseases at their source.
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Funding: $460.5M
Poseida Therapeutics utilizes best-in-class genome engineering capabilities to develop targeted lifesaving therapeutics.
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Funding: $459.7M
Synthego is a provider of synthetic RNA solutions for CRISPR Genome Engineering.
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Funding: $457M
Metagenomi is using the power of metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing systems.
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Funding: $428M
Taysha Gene Therapies is a developer of treatments to eradicate severe & life-threatening monogenic diseases of the central nervous system.
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Funding: $419.3M
Verve is focused on discovering and developing therapies that safely edit the genomes of adults to confer protection against coronary.
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Funding: $407M
The mission of CRISPR Therapeutics is to develop transformative gene-based medicines for patients with serious diseases. Our therapeutic approach is to cure diseases at the molecular level using the breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With our multi-disciplinary team of world-renowned academics, drug developers and clinicians, we are uniquely positioned to translate CRISPR-Cas9 technology into human therapeutics.
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Funding: $381M
Maze Therapeutics is a operator of a biotechnology firm intended to focused on translating genetic insights into new medicines.
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Funding: $379.5M
Passage Bio is a fully integrated gene therapy company with a mission to develop a portfolio of five life-transforming AAV-delivered therapeutics for the treatment of rare monogenic central nervous system diseases.
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Funding: $374M
Voyager Therapeutics is a clinical stage gene therapy company developing life-changing treatments for severe diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). Gene therapy has the potential to transform the treatment of CNS and other diseases by providing a one-time therapy that dramatically improves patients' lives.
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Funding: $345.4M
CytomX is unlocking the potential of antibody therapeutics in oncology by developing a novel therapeutic antibody class of highly targeted Probody therapeutics.
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Funding: $325M
Obsidian Therapeutics is a developer of a next-generation cell and gene therapies created to extend adoptive immunotherapy.
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Funding: $317.7M
Caribou Biosciences is a pioneer in the revolutionary field of CRISPR-Cas genome editing. Our proprietary technology puts us at the forefront of the development of new medical therapies and bio-based products which offer profound benefits to both human health and society as a whole.
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Funding: $305.8M
ArsenalBio is focused on integrating technologies such as CRISPR-based genome engineering, scaled and high throughput target identification, synthetic biology, and machine learning to advance a new paradigm to discover and develop in immune cell therapies.
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Funding: $280M
LEXEO Therapeutics develops gene therapy for the world's most devastating diseases
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Funding: $277.5M
Korro Bio provides an efficient and selective method for RNA editing, leveraging natural processes common to all multi-cellular organisms.
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Funding: $265.2M
Precision BioSciences is a genome editing company dedicated to improving life. Our team seeks to solve – not just treat, but solve – significant problems in oncology, genetic disease, agriculture, and beyond via its proprietary ARCUS genome editing platform.
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Funding: $241.8M
Askbio develops meds for range of genetic diseases targeting central nervous system, muscle, respiratory, and heart tissues.
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Funding: $210M
Cabaletta Bio has adapted clinically-validated and FDA-approved CAR T cell technology to target B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases.
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Funding: $187M
Homology Medicines is a genetic medicines company translating proprietary, cutting-edge gene editing and gene therapy technology into cures for patients with rare diseases. It is taking a slightly different tack from other players in the gene-editing domain with its adeno-associated virus (AAV) technology AMEnDR. It’s a different approach to other techniques such as CRISPR/cas9 or zinc finger nucleases
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Funding: $183.5M
Neurogene develops gene therapies for inherited neurological diseases, initially focusing on a form of Batten disease.
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Funding: $162.5M
Akouos is a new biotechnology company focused on restoring and preserving hearing.
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Funding: $139.5M
Gemini Therapeutics is a precision medicine company focused on genetically-defined dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and associated rare genetic diseases.Their therapeutic candidates are matched to molecular abnormalities found in patients with high clinical need and our broad multimodal pipeline includes monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins and gene therapies.
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Funding: $140M
Capsida develops targeted gene therapies in serious neurodegenerative diseases.
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Funding: $135M
SalioGen advances in genetic therapies using its Exact DNA Integration Technology platform, a mammal-derived genome engineering technology.
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Funding: $129M
Prevail Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing novel gene therapies for patients with Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Funding: $124.5M
Dimension Therapeutics is developing novel, liver-directed gene therapy treatments for severe, rare genetic disorders. Dimension’s lead programs address significant medical needs for new therapies and include a wholly owned program in hemophilia B.
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Funding: $112.7M
Meira Gene Therapy is argeting inherited retinal diseases with therapies designed to halt vision loss.
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Funding: $111M
Foghorn Therapeutics is developing therapies based on a system that directs which genes our cells express, and when, where, and in what order.
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Funding: $109.9M
Mirna is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a broad pipeline of leading microRNA-based oncology therapeutics, the first to demonstrate clinical proof of concept for microRNA replacement therapy.
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Funding: $109M
Dyno Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to gene therapy.
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Funding: $101.5M
Edge Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that discovers, develops and seeks to commercialize novel, hospital-based therapies capable of transforming treatment paradigms in the management of acute, life-threatening neurological conditions. Our product candidates utilize our proprietary Precisa development platform that are based on specific physical and chemical properties that enable targeted delivery to the exact site of the injury, and provide a controlled and sustained drug release to the affected area.
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Funding: $90M
Ascidian Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended for medical use in medical and clinical gene therapy.
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Funding: $87.6M
Atsena Therapeutics develops blindness gene therapy
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Funding: $85M
Code Biotherapeutics is a next-generation gene therapy company pioneering the development of targeted non-viral gene therapies.
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Funding: $82.9M
Genprex is a clinical stage gene therapy company developing molecular therapies to better target lung cancer cells. Their new approach to treating cancer is based upon our novel proprietary technology platform, including our initial product candidate, Oncoprex immunogene therapy, or Oncoprex.
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Funding: $75M
ProFound intends to reconsider what exactly defines a protein-coding gene and how a protein is coded in the genome.
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Funding: $55M
Epic Bio's strength is a relentless focus on ushering in a new era of gene regulation.
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Funding: $39.6M
XyloCor Therapeutics is a bio-pharmaceutical company intended to develop gene therapy for people with advanced coronary artery disease.
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Funding: $40M
Tune Therapeutics develops epigenomic controls that dial gene expression up or down to potentially thwart cancers, genetic diseases and aging.
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Funding: $38M
Carbon Biosciences is a biotech company that engages in the novel parvovirus gene therapy.