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Chroma Medicine Strengthens Leadership with the Appointment of Biotech Business Leader Michael A. Kelly to its Board of Directors
Boston, MA, September 27, 2023 – Chroma Medicine, Inc., (Chroma) a genomic medicine company pioneering single-dose epigenetic editing therapeutics, today announced the addition of innovative biotech business leader Michael A. Kelly to its Board of Directors. “Michael brings decades of strategic finance and business operations experience to Chroma and builds on the deep expertise of our current board and leadership team. We are excited to welcome him as we pursue the promise of epigenetic editing for patients,” said Catherine Stehman-Breen, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Chroma. Mr. Kelly is the Founder and President of Sentry Hill Partners, LLC, a global…
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Chroma Medicine Named to Endpoints 11 List of Most Promising Biotechs of 2023
Boston, MA., September 21, 2023 — Chroma Medicine, Inc. (Chroma), a genomic medicine company pioneering single-dose epigenetic editing therapeutics, today announced it was named to the Endpoints 11 2023 list of the most promising biotechs by Endpoints News. This annual award celebrates companies with leading-edge science that are pioneering the development of new medicines. Building on groundbreaking research from the world’s foremost genomic medicine experts, Chroma is rapidly advancing a new class of therapeutics that harness epigenetics, nature’s innate mechanism for gene regulation, to achieve unparalleled control of gene expression without cutting, nicking, or altering the DNA sequence. After securing…
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Chroma Medicine Presents Data Showing Specific and Durable HBV Silencing with Epigenetic Editors at the HBV International Meeting 2023
Boston, MA, September 20, 2023 – Chroma Medicine, Inc., (Chroma) a genomic medicine company pioneering single-dose epigenetic editing therapeutics, today presented positive preclinical data demonstrating the potential of its epigenetic editors to produce efficacious, specific, and durable silencing of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) during the HBV International Meeting 2023, held September 19-23 in Kobe, Japan. Chronic hepatitis B is incurable, increases the risk of developing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer, and impacts nearly 300 million people worldwide, accounting for more than 800,000 deaths per year. Antiviral therapy can suppress viral replication, but requires lifelong dosing and few patients achieve…
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Sangamo Therapeutics and Chroma Medicine Announce Option and License Agreement To Evaluate and Develop Zinc Finger Proteins for Epigenetic Editing
Brisbane, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, JULY 20, 2023 – Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO), a clinical-stage genomic medicine company and Chroma Medicine, Inc. (Chroma) a genomic medicine company pioneering single-dose epigenetic editing therapeutics, today announced they have entered into a research evaluation, option and license agreement to develop epigenetic medicines leveraging zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) for sequence-specific DNA recognition. Over the course of two decades, Sangamo has built and validated the world’s largest library of ZFPs, deploying them to address numerous therapeutically relevant targets.  Advancing the transformative potential of epigenetic editing, Chroma is expanding the versatility of its platform by…