Paul Wrighton, PhD

Senior Scientist II, In Vivo Gene Editing at Editas Medicine

Speaker

Paul received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin where he investigated the involvement of the extracellular matrix on human pluripotent stem cell differentiation. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, developing in vivo imaging methods to study mitophagy. He began at Editas Medicine in 2021 as a member of the discovery biology team, developing in vivo gene editing medicines targeting the eye and liver.