Prime Medicine (NASDAQ: PRME) is a publicly traded Gene & Genome Editing Platforms company founded in 2019 and based in Cambridge, United States.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2022 | IPO | $175M | — | — |
Prime Medicine reported Q2 2026 results as a pre-revenue biotech advancing gene-editing therapies. The company generated $1.2 million in collaboration revenue, down slightly from $1.1 million in Q2 2025. Net loss narrowed to $42.1 million from $52.6 million year-over-year, driven by lower R&D and G&A expenses following a May 2025 workforce reduction. Cash, equivalents, and investments stood at $95.1 million on June 30, 2026, down from $177.7 million at year-end 2025, providing runway into 2027. Operationally, the company achieved major milestones: FDA cleared an IND and New Zealand approved a CTA for PM577a (Wilson disease), establishing a global Phase 1/2 program with study startup underway and initial data expected in 2027. An arbitration with Beam Therapeutics affirmed Prime's rights to PM647 (Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency), with IND/CTA submission planned for Q3 2026. The FDA granted RMAT designation to PM359 (chronic granulomatous disease), accelerating the path toward a BLA submission targeted for H1 2027.
Cash runway into 2027
Prime editing uses an engineered fusion of a nicking CRISPR protein and a reverse transcriptase, guided by a prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) that both specifies the target site and carries the new genetic sequence to write. It nicks only one DNA strand and copies in the edit directly, so it needs no double-strand break and no separate donor template. The approach can install all twelve single-base substitutions plus small insertions and deletions, giving a single platform the breadth to correct the majority of known disease-causing mutations.