Caribou Biosciences, Inc. announced the appointment of Tim Kelly to the newly created position of chief technology officer. Mr. Kelly brings over 25 years of experience in global clinical and commercial product development, manufacturing, and supply chain operations with large and small biopharmaceutical and cell and gene therapy companies in the US and Europe. In addition, Caribou highlighted successful execution across its allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy platform over the past year and provided an outlook on multiple clinical catalysts planned for 2024.

Mr. Kelly will lead the company?s technical operations strategy and execution and will report to Dr. Haurwitz. Tim joins Caribou from Oxford Biomedica Solutions, a spin-out of Homology Medicines, offering AAV product development and manufacturing services, where he was chief executive officer and board chair. Prior to Oxford Biomedica Solutions, he was chief operating officer at Homology Medicines, Inc., where he led operations, process and platform development strategy, and product manufacturing strategy for gene therapy and gene editing technology.

Earlier, he led technical operations at Sarepta, Shire, UCB, and Biogen, and was a fighter pilot in the US Air Force. Tim earned an MS/MBA from Troy State University and a BS, with an emphasis in engineering mechanics, from the United States Air Force Academy.