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With First IND, Recursion Readies Its AI, Experimental Biology Approach For The Clinic

 
• By Joseph Haas

Emerging Company Profile: With an early focus on rare, monogenic diseases, Recursion believes its platform combining artificial intelligence and experimental biology can be applied to any disease that can be modeled on a cellular level.

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Based on its founder’s graduate work at the University of Utah, Recursion Pharmaceuticals LLC is repurposing existing molecules for rare monogenic diseases by using phenotypic screening that is optimized by artificial intelligence and the company intends to begin its first clinical trial before the end of 2018.

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