Sam Kulka­rni takes the helm at CRISPR Ther­a­peu­tics as found­ing CEO steps down

Af­ter steer­ing CRISPR Ther­a­peu­tics to an IPO last year as the last of the big three gene edit­ing com­pa­nies to make the leap in­to the pub­lic mar­kets, found­ing CEO Rodger No­vak is step­ping down and hand­ing the reins over to the orig­i­nal chief busi­ness de­vel­op­ment of­fi­cer, Samarth Kulka­rni.

There’s no spe­cif­ic rea­son giv­en for No­vak’s de­par­ture, oth­er than the gener­ic “per­son­al rea­sons” of­ten cit­ed dur­ing these kinds of change­ups. No­vak is stay­ing on the board.

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