About Us

About Us

Mirimus was established in 2010 to harness the power of RNAi and genetic engineering technologies based on pioneering work by our founders in the labs of the world’s leading experts at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Harvard Medical School. Initially focused on using this technology to generate animal models of disease, Mirimus has since expanded the application of our unique expertise and insights into RNAi and genetic engineering across the R&D and clinical care continuum to include RNAi therapeutics, and advanced drug discovery and development technologies. Using proprietary RNA structures and screening techniques that stabilize RNAi constructs and improve their functionality by increasing potency and reducing off-target effects, we can preclinically evaluate the effects of drug therapy and even combination therapy both in vitro and in live animal models.

Our Founders

Our Founders

Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD

President and CEO, Mirimus
Assistant Research Professor, Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate
Health Sciences University

Stephen Elledge, PhD

Professor Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Lasker Award recipient

Scott Lowe, PhD

Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Member, National Academy of Sciences

Christof Fellmann, PhD

Head of CRISPR-X, Executive Director, CRISPR Therapeutics
Assistant Professor, Gladstone Institute, Doudna Laboratory
Former CSO, Mirimus

Gregory Hannon, PhD

Director, Oncology & Non-coding RNAs, Cancer Research UK,
Cambridge Institute
Member, National Academy of Sciences

Our Scientists

Our Scientists

Ana Vasileva, PhD

VP of Translational Research
Genomics, Cell & Molecular
Biology

Giuseppe Militello, PhD

Director of RNAi Therapeutics

Nucleic Acid Biology

High-Throughput Screening

Giuseppe de Peppo, PhD

Director of Internal Research

Biotechnology, Engineering

and Cell Biology

Michelle Riley, PhD

Project Manager

Behavioral Neuroscience

Huaien Wang, MD

Cell-Based Modeling

Cancer Biology and Genetics

Rosaline Sun, PhD

Senior Scientist

Cancer Biology and

Genetics

Eduardo G. Reino, PhD

Director of Neuroscience and

Immunology

Hui-Ting Cheng, PhD

Clinical Lab Director

Immunology and Infectious

Diseases

Our Leadership

Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD

President and CEO, Mirimus
Assistant Research Professor, Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate
Health Sciences University

David Eads

Chief Financial Officer

Sean Seibel

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Veronica Andrews

Chief People Officer

James Connolly

Chief Sales Officer

Our Advisors

Our Advisors

Stephen Chang, PhD

Strategic Advisor

Former CEO, Histogen

Senior VP, NYSCF

30+ years of biotech and pharmaceutical commercial experience

Rachelle P. Mendoza, MD

Cytopathology and Scientific Advisor

Fellow in Anatomic Pathology (gynecology), University of Chicago

ABP Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology

Lukas Dow, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine

Edward V Quadros, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Research Professor, Departments of Medicine and

Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Lars Zender, MD

Professor of Medical Oncology, Director & Chair, Dept. of Medical Oncology & Pneumology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany

Johannes Zuber, MD

Scientific Advisor

Senior Group Leader Research, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Adjunct

Professor, Medical University of Vienna

EMBO Member

Christopher E. Mason, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell

Medicine

James Kehler, VMD, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Former Dir, MTI-GlobalStem

Expert in iPSCs

Aiqun Li, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and

Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at

Mount Sinai

Matthew Pincus, MD, PhD

Medical Director, Mirimus Clinical Laboratory

Professor of Pathology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Our Leadership

Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD

President and CEO, Mirimus
Assistant Research Professor, Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate
Health Sciences University

David Eads

Chief Financial Officer

Sean Seibel

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Veronica Andrews

Chief People Officer

James Connolly

Chief Sales Officer