Founders

Expertise, insight and commitment to deliver on strategy

Opus’ core team has an ideal mix of experience in science, company formation, patient advocacy, financing and gene therapy drug development. 

Founders

Ben Yerxa, PhD
President & CEO
Jean Bennett, MD, PhD
F.M. Kirby Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD
Chatlos Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School