Alexandra Crawley

Alexandra Crawley is a co-founder and scientist at Life Edit Therapeutics, where responsibilities include leading bioinformatic and computational biology pipelines and driving gene discovery efforts for novel genome editing tools. With experience as a Bioinformatics Lead, Alexandra has developed gene discovery pipelines to identify CRISPR-based genome editing systems and established software for genetic targeting and evaluation across various organisms. Prior to Life Edit, Alexandra served as a Research Assistant at North Carolina State University, investigating CRISPR-Cas systems and teaching in related subjects, and also completed a Bioinformatics Internship at AgBiome focusing on gene discovery pipelines. Alexandra holds a PhD in Functional Genomics and an MS in Food Science from North Carolina State University, as well as a BSA in Food Science and Technology from The University of Georgia.