Recursion’s acquisition supplements its digital drug discovery vertical, further enabling its pipeline of four clinical and over 30 discovery programs
Recursion, a digital biology™ company leading in the industrialization of drug discovery, today announced its acquisition of Vium, a digital vivarium™ company. Vium’s platform combines computer vision, machine learning and sensor technologies to non-invasively collect and derive insights from digital biomarkers in preclinical in vivo research. Recursion’s acquisition of Vium signals continued and rapid integration of advanced technologies to grow its drug discovery pipeline of over 30 programs along with programs developed jointly with large pharmaceutical partners.
“Technology is set to change the pace, scale and cost of drug discovery over the coming decades. At Recursion, we are building a vast machine to rapidly discover drugs through the integration of technology at every step in the process,” said Chris Gibson, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Recursion. “Bringing the fantastic team at Vium in-house will enable us to build on our core technology and vision, augmenting our huge in vitro datasets with large, complementary in vivo datasets, and advancing our mission to decode biology to radically improve patient lives.”
“Recursion and Vium share a common vision that delivering better therapies to patients faster requires an industrialization of the drug discovery process,” said Laura Schaevitz, CEO of Vium. “We are transforming preclinical research through the creation of a scalable in vivo platform to collect continuous, high-quality datasets where traditionally researchers would have limited data available. We are excited to focus exclusively on building a large in vivo data set for Recursion’s digital biology platform, potentially enabling an even broader pipeline of medicines.”
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Source: Biospace
