
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Drug Discovery & Development
Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biotech company decoding biology by running millions of experiments and applying AI to accelerate drug discovery.
About Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Recursion uses AI to analyze images of cells and train artificial intelligence to understand the vast unknown biological space driving disease.
Mission & Approach
Mission
“Decoding biology to radically improve lives”
AI Approach
Computer vision, multimodal machine learning foundation models, phenomics analysis, predictive analytics for target identification and molecule design
Founding Story
Recursion was founded more than a decade ago on the idea that we could take images of cells and use these images to train artificial intelligence to understand the vast unknown biological space – the cellular disruptions driving disease – to use AI-drug discovery to reduce the massive 90% failure rate of traditional drug discovery.
Products & Solutions
REC-4881
otherDrug candidate for familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) in Phase 1b/2 TUPELO trial
REC-4881 is a drug candidate currently in Phase 1b/2 clinical trials (TUPELO trial) for the treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a rare disease. The company has announced positive Phase 1b/2 results from the ongoing trial.
BioHive-2
platformBiopharma's most powerful supercomputer for AI drug discovery
BioHive-2 is a supercomputer built in partnership with NVIDIA to process Recursion's massive datasets. It provides the computational power necessary to train intelligent machine learning models for AI drug discovery and development, helping rapidly identify new targets and design highly optimized molecules.
REC-3565
otherSelective MALT1 inhibitor for relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas in Phase 1
REC-3565 is a selective MALT1 inhibitor currently in Phase 1 clinical study for the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell lymphomas. The company announced first patient dosed in the Phase 1 clinical study.
Recursion Operating System (Recursion OS)
FlagshipplatformAI platform to industrialize drug discovery from target identification to clinical trial enrollment
The Recursion Operating System is a proprietary AI drug discovery and development platform that spans target identification to clinical trial enrollment. It is powered by one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets (>50 petabytes spanning phenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, ADME, and de-identified patient data). The platform uses automated wet labs with robotics and computer vision to capture millions of cell experiments per week, feeding all results back into the system in a continuously improving feedback loop.
Customer Success Stories
NVIDIA
other
Built biopharma's most powerful supercomputer (BioHive-2) to process massive biological and chemical datasets for AI drug discovery
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Product Stage
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pharmaCompany Details
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Employees
- 1500
- Stage
- public
- Profile last updated
- June 22, 2026
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🎉 We’re on the Shatter List! Recursion has been named to the 2026 Women Tech Council’s Shatter List. This is our 9th year making the list, which recognizes workplaces where talented people want to grow, lead, and build meaningful careers. 👉 Learn more: www.womentechcouncil.com/shatter-list/
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🚀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
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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?
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Recursion will provide business updates and report our first quarter 2026 financial results on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, with an Earnings Call at 8:00 am ET / 6:00 am MT / 1:00 pm BST broadcast on our X, LinkedIn, and YouTube accounts. 👉Learn more: ir.recursion.com/news-release...
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⏩ 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.” 🧪💡👇
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