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UT researcher, with CureDuchenne support, launches company to treat DMD using CRISPR/Cas9 technology
Eric Olson, a molecular biologist, has spent more than half his life in the lab. Now, the 62-year-old University of Texas researcher and distinguished professor is a businessman as well.
Olson, director of UT Southwestern’s Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine in Dallas, has teamed up with the nonprofit group CureDuchenne — through its investment arm — to form Exonics Therapeutics.
The new company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will use the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique known as SingleCut with the aim of correcting up to 80 percent of the 3,000 mutations that cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
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