Beam Therapeutics Inc at William Blair Biotech Focus Conference (Virtual) Transcript

Jul 15, 2021 / 05:00PM GMT
Raj Prasad - William Blair & Company LLC - Analyst

I am Raj Prasad. I am on the biotech team here at William Blair, and I cover Beam Therapeutics. Before we begin, I just have to tell you, for a list of disclosures or conflicts of interest, see our website at williamblair.com. And with that, glad to have you, John. Lots of things going on at Beam.

So maybe just to start and provide a foundation for the conversation, a brief overview of the Company and of base editing technology and where it has come from and where it is now.

John Evans - Beam Therapeutics Inc. - CEO and Board Member

Great. Yes. Thanks for having us, excited to see you again.

So Beam was founded to be focusing on next-generation technology within gene editing, specifically initially called base editing. So we were founded in 2017 by leaders in the CRISPR field, so this is David Liu, Feng Zhang and Keith Joung.

And stepping back, if you think about where the CRISPR field comes from: so gene editing, we have zinc fingers; we have TALENs; and then of course CRISPR

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