Prime Medicine, Inc., a biotechnology company, delivers genetic therapies to address diseases by deploying gene editing technology.
The company offers Prime Editors with a Prime Editor protein, comprising a fusion between a Cas protein and a reverse transcriptase enzyme; and a pegRNA, which targets the Prime Editor to a specific genomic location and provides a template for making the desired edit to the target DNA sequence.
It has a research collaboration with Cimeio Therapeutics to develop Prime Edited Shielded-Cell & Immunotherapy Pairs for genetic diseases, acute myeloid leukemia, and myelodysplastic syndrome.
Prime Medicine, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.