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Founded in 2017, the company traces its origins to the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Co-founders include David R. Liu and Feng Zhang. Prior to its IPO, the company raised nearly $1 billion in venture capital from investors. In a February 2020 IPO, the company raised $180 million.
In January 2022, Pfizer and Beam Therapeutics announced a collaboration to develop therapies for rare diseases using CRISPR.
In 2026 clinical trial results were published on Beam's investigational medicine, ristoglogene autogetemcel, a CRISPR-based gene therapy for treatment of sickle cell disease.
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