Scott Gradia

Scott serves as the Vice President of Platform Research and directs the molecular biology lab capabilities, facility operations, and platform research and development at Caribou Biosciences. In this role, Scott is responsible for the Company's new genome editing technology development efforts. Before joining Caribou in 2015, Scott founded and led the MacroLab, a DNA cloning and protein purification facility on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Scott received his B.S. in Genetics from Iowa State University and his Ph.D. in Genetics from Thomas Jefferson University, where he was awarded the Weintraub Graduate Student Award for his work describing the biochemistry of DNA mismatch repair and its role in hereditary colon cancer. He performed his post-doctoral work as a Damon-Runyon fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, studying structural biology.