Marcello Maresca

Marcello Maresca is a Senior Director at AstraZeneca and currently leads the Genome Engineering department. He received his PhD in Molecular Biology from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, where he focused on developing recombineering, a widely used genome engineering tool in bacteria. After his PhD, he pursued postdoctoral work at the Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research in Cambridge, MA, USA, where he worked on developing and applying genome editing tools in drug discovery. Currently, at AstraZeneca, Marcello and his team are working to establish Genome Editing as a novel therapeutic modality.