David Lockhart

David J. Lockhart, Ph.D. is President and Chief Scientific Officer of ReCode Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech pioneering nonviral lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery of mRNA and gene-editing payloads to the lungs for genetic respiratory diseases including cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia. With more than 25 years in drug discovery and genomics — from co-founding Ambit Biosciences to leading science at Amicus Therapeutics — Lockhart brings rare-disease chops and deep genomics expertise to ReCode's SORT LNP platform, which has raised $345M and dosed its first patients in a Phase 1 PCD trial.