The agreement includes early stage, first-in-class ocular programs targeting serious diseases based on Editas Medicine's CRISPR genome editing platform, including CRISPR/Cas9 and CRISPR/Cpf1. CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a dynamic technology that allows researchers to permanently modify genes and has the potential to create medicines with a durable treatment effect.