CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Editas Medicine, Inc. (EDIT), a leading genome editing company, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $22.50 per share. The gross proceeds to Editas Medicine from this offering are expected to be approximately $90 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses. Editas Medicine has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares of common stock on the same terms and conditions.
Editas Medicine intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to fund preclinical studies and clinical trials for its LCA10 program and its other programs to treat genetic and infectious diseases of the eye, preclinical studies of its programs to treat non-malignant hematologic diseases, preclinical studies in its collaboration with Juno Therapeutics, preclinical studies of other research programs, continued expansion of its platform technology, and for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
