ABOUT CASNX

From CRISPR discovery
to donor-organ medicine.

We bring CRISPR engineering and transplant medicine to develop gene therapies for organs before transplantation.

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THE PEOPLE

Meet the founders.

Santosh Rananaware

Santosh Rananaware

PhD Co-founder & CTO

DNA-guided CRISPR platform

BITS PilaniUniversity of Florida
Piyush Jain

Piyush Jain

PhD Co-founder & CEO

CRISPR engineering

University of FloridaMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Rushi Shah

Rushi Shah

MD Co-founder & CMO

Transplant medicine

UF HealthUniversity of Miami

Institutional affiliations and training of individual team members.

WHY CASNX

Built around
one opportunity.

CasNx grew from the work of scientists developing DNA-guided CRISPR and a surgeon treating transplant patients. Together, they are exploring a brief window: when a donated organ is outside the body, before it reaches its recipient.

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BACKING & RECOGNITION

Venture backingDraper University Ventures
3 out of 4 Demo Day awards
Startup Battlefield 200
Top 15 finalist

Help build the next chapter.

Institutional affiliations

Institutional marks identify individual affiliations and training, not institutional endorsement of CasNx.