Mogrify: Using Big Data To Transform Development Of Cell Therapies

Money in the bank, biotech legacies onboard, a fresh partnership, an emerging internal cell therapy pipeline and a grand vision for the broad-scale application of its technology – has Mogrify got it all? The biotech’s chief business officer, Karin Schmitt, talks to In Vivo about the group’s near- and long-term goals.

Stem cells

UK-based Mogrify, Ltd., which emerged from stealth mode in 2019, is using a big data-based platform technology to transform the development of ex vivo cell therapies and pioneer a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapies. The company boasts Jane Osbourn, former vice president of R&D at MedImmune, as its chair, and Darrin Disley, former CEO of gene-editing firm Horizon Discovery Group PLC, as its CEO.

In May 2019, Karin Schmitt joined the company as chief business officer to lead Mogrify’s commercial operations and its R&D...

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