Primary Job Title Co-founder Primary Organization Caribou Biosciences
Gender Male
James is a co-founder of Caribou and a Professor in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to taking his position at Johns Hopkins in 2013, James was a Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also
the director of the QB3 MacroLab and held an appointment in the Physical Biosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on nucleic acid/protein interactions that are mechanistically critical to genome replication. James has won a number of awards, including the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology and the American Chemical Society Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, and he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. He received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry/Structural Biology from Harvard University. He served as a Whitehead Fellow for three years at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
