GlobeNewswire Inc | Sep 1, 2021 08:00AM EDT

September 01, 2021

BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Caribou Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBU), a leading clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, announced today that Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D., Caribous president and chief executive officer, will participate in a panel discussion entitled Autologous, Allogeneic CAR-T, CAR-NK & More - Exploring the State of Play in Cell Therapy on Thursday, September 9, 2021 at 10:40 am ET. The panel is being hosted at Citis 16Th Annual BioPharma Virtual Conference.

A live and archived webcast of the discussion will be accessible on the Events page of the Investors section on Caribous website at www.cariboubio.com for 30 days following the event.

About Caribou Biosciences, Inc.Caribou is a clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with devastating diseases by applying the companys proprietary chRDNA technology toward the development of next-generation, genome-edited cell therapies. The company is developing a pipeline of genome-edited, off-the-shelf CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies for the treatment of both hematologic malignancies and solid tumors against cell surface targets for which autologous CAR-T cell therapeutics have previously demonstrated clinical proof of concept, as well as additional emerging targets.

For more information about Caribou, visit www.cariboubio.com and follow the company @CaribouBio.

Caribou Biosciences and the Caribou logo are registered trademarks of Caribou Biosciences, Inc.

Caribou Biosciences, Inc. Caribou Biosciences, Inc.Media Contact: Investor Relations Contact:Greg Kelley Elizabeth Wolffe, Ph.D. and Sylvia WheelerOgilvy Wheelhouse LSAgregory.kelley@ogilvy.com lwolffe@wheelhouselsa.com617-461-4023 swheeler@wheelhouselsa.com