Rachel Haurwitz, PhD
President & CEO
Caribou Biosciences
Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D., is a co-founder of Caribou, is our president and chief executive officer, and serves as a director of our company, positions she has held since our company’s inception in October 2011. Dr. Haurwitz is an inventor on patents and patent applications covering multiple CRISPR-based technologies and has co-authored several scientific papers characterizing CRISPR-Cas systems, including in Science. Since February 2020, she has served on the Board of Directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). Dr. Haurwitz received her A.B. degree in Biological Sciences from Harvard College and her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna.



