Vic is president and CSO at Chroma Medicine. Previously he was chief technology officer of Editas Medicine where he led the genome editing platform as well as the chemistry, CMC and quality departments. He has more than 20 years of experience in the biotech industry. At the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research he led a large, technology focused target discovery, target validation and lead finding group in the Developmental and Molecular Pathways department for 11 years. Prior to Novartis, Vic focused on industrializing and using ‘omics technologies at Millennium, Akceli and Corning. He has B.S. from Cornell, a Ph.D. from Yale and did his post-doc at MIT/The Whitehead.