Recursion

Recursion

@recursionpharma.bsky.social

Decoding biology to radically improve lives. The industrial revolution of drug discovery is here. Learn more at recursion.com #techbio

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Hoifung Poon, PhD, formerly General Manager of Microsoft Research, has joined Recursion as the company’s first Chief AI Officer. In 15+ years at Microsoft, he led pioneering work in biomedical AI, multimodal foundation models & causal machine learning – including PubMedBERT, GigaPath & GigaTIME.

🚀A new article in Nature Biotech highlights how next-generation AI companies like Recursion are transforming biology into an engineering discipline. Recursion CEO Najat Khan: “On average, we go from project start to advanced candidate in 17 months.” www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

nature.comProgramming biology: next-gen AI firms raise billions to design better medicines - Nature BiotechnologyFaster drug discovery, optimized drug design, even programmable therapeutics: AI is impacting R&D. Data and development bottlenecks remain.

Bigger isn't always better.” — Dave Hallett, CSO, Recursion At the @synbiobeta.bsky.social event, Dave joined fellow industry leaders to discuss "Solving the Scale Mismatch Between Cells and Patients in Virtual Biology." How do we better translate cellular insights to patient outcomes using AI?

⏩ Momentum is building across the #TechBio ecosystem. "After a year of keeping its head down and riding out the bumps, biotech is doing what it’s best at again. Innovating. Making things better.” 🧪💡👇

biospace.comBiotech has become a good news story. Let the sun shineDoubling survival in pancreatic cancer, a long-fought rare disease approval, a massive IPO and ambitious biotech entrepreneurs have BioSpace Senior Editor Annalee Armstrong feeling upbeat about the bi...

Recursion welcomed rare disease advocates, physicians, patients, and community members for “An Evening of Hope” last week in SLC. The event highlighted the critical work happening to raise awareness & accelerate new treatments & best support patients and their families who are waiting for a cure.

Recursion CSO Dave Hallett was recently appointed as an AI Champion by the UK government. He’s one of 8 AI Champions and will be representing the life sciences industry, helping to inform, guide, and accelerate AI adoption plans in that space. 👉 Learn more: delivery.ai.gov.uk/48/ #TechBio #AI #UK

In a new story in Technology Networks, incoming CEO and President Najat Khan shared insights into the creation of the Microglia Map in partnership with Roche and Genentech and what it could mean for future drug discovery. #neuroscience #microglia #TechBio www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discove...

technologynetworks.comMapping Microglia To Unlock New Paths in NeuroscienceDr. Najat Khan of Recursion shared insights into the creation of the Microglia Map and what it could mean for future drug discovery.

Today, cofounder & CEO Chris Gibson spoke on the Main Stage at #GITEX to discuss how the convergence of AI, data, & DNA is fundamentally changing the way we discover medicines. As he wrote: “This is more than just a shift in technology — it’s a re-architecting of the scientific process itself."

🎫 Recursion Chief R&D Officer and Chief Commercial Officer Najat Khan, PhD will join leading experts from healthcare, technology, and public policy for Google Cloud’s Cancer AI Symposium on Oct. 30 at Google NYC, exploring how #AI is currently transforming #cancer care – and what’s to come. 🧪

Inside the AI transformation of drug discovery. On Oct. 15 on the Main Stage of GITEX Global at the Dubai World Trade Center, Recursion cofounder & CEO Chris Gibson will give a keynote on "AI, Data & DNA: TechBio’s Disruption of Drug Discovery." 👉 visit.gitex.com #GITEXGlobal #GITEX2025 #TechBio

Announcing TechBio Talks Episode 2: A deep dive into phenomics, open science and virtual cells. Host Chris Gibson talks to the Broad Institute's Anne Carpenter, a pioneer in image-based profiling, who played a key role in Recursion’s origin story. 🧵

We♥️our innovators. Recursion was recognized as one of the “Best Workplaces for Innovators” by @fastcompany.com. At Recursion, we're building a new kind of drug discovery & development platform from the ground up – relentlessly working toward a better way to bring new medicines to patients. 🧵

Driving this industry-defining innovation takes bold, bilingual thinkers who collaborate across disciplines, and push back against the status quo. If this sounds like your kind of mission, we're hiring. www.recursion.com/careers 👉See the list: www.fastcompany.com/best-workpla...

recursion.comCareers at Recursion: Join Our Mission | RecursionEmbark on a career journey with Recursion. Dive into opportunities, culture, and the impact you can make. Apply to work with us today!

Maintaining our sense of urgency, because patients are waiting. In a clip from the latest installment in our internal #RXU series – Chief R&D Officer and Chief Commercial Officer Najat Khan talks about the importance of urgency. #TechBio

🔹 Join us in September as Recursion executives present at two upcoming investor conferences: ▪️ Sept. 3: Citi 2025 BioPharma Back to School Conference ▪️ Sept. 8: Morgan Stanley 23rd Annual Global Healthcare Conference 👉 Learn more and tune in here: ir.recursion.com. #investor #IR #IRconference

🔹 Delivering breakthroughs, at scale. Last week, Erik Douglas, VP of Product, joined some of the biggest names in tech – including Fei-Fei Li and Geoffrey Hinton – at the #Ai4 conference in Vegas where he provided insights into our AI-driven industrialization of drug discovery and development.