U.S. officials have arrested Enochian BioSciences co-founder Serhat Gümrükcü. The researcher is charged with conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire which resulted in a death.
Enochian is developing gene-modified cellular and immune therapies for infectious diseases including HIV, hepatitis B and coronavirus as well as cancer. Gümrükcü developed many of the techniques used to create the candidates, and Enochian relied on his services, according to a financial filing made by the company last year. The researcher filed the pre-IND request for Enochian’s HIV cell therapy.
