Casey Maguire

Casey has over 17 years of experience in genetic engineering of virus vectors for gene therapy applications. His research has been devoted to building better virus-based gene delivery systems to overcome in vivo obstacles to efficient gene therapy. He discovered and continues to develop exo-AAV, a novel gene therapy platform with several publications describing promising results in preclinical models of human disease.

Dr. Maguire authored key IP that is foundational to Chameleon Biosciences; has authored two issued patents and numerous other patent applications that are pending. Dr. Maguire has authored 38 peer reviewed journal articles and review articles and has served on the editorial board for Nature publishing group.

He obtained his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (2006) and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a Principal Investigator at the MGH.