Drug Discovery and Development

  • Home Drug Discovery and Development
  • Drug Discovery
  • Women in Pharma and Biotech
  • Oncology
  • Neurological Disease
  • Infectious Disease
  • Resources
    • Video features
    • Podcast
    • Voices
    • Webinars
  • Pharma 50
    • 2025 Pharma 50
    • 2024 Pharma 50
    • 2023 Pharma 50
    • 2022 Pharma 50
    • 2021 Pharma 50
  • Advertise
  • SUBSCRIBE

Recursion Pharmaceuticals Receives Grant To Leverage AI-Enabled Discovery Platform

By Recursion Pharmaceuticals | May 10, 2018

Recursion Pharmaceuticals today announced the award of a $546,000grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to apply Recursion’s AI-enabled technology to the discovery of novel drugs with the ability to treat malaria.

“We are proud to contribute to the foundation’s goal of a world free of malaria,” said Chris Gibson, Ph.D., CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals. “Like the foundation, we believe in the value of all human lives. This grant provides us with an opportunity to explore the utility of our discovery platform in one infectious disease, and our hope is that one day soon we’ll be capitalizing on our innovations in automation, biology, and machine learning to discover potential new treatments for many infectious diseases.”

Facilitating the discovery of a new treatment for malaria will further advance Recursion’s goal of finding 100 new treatments by 2025.

“This grant is another step in our long, but massively impactful, mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives,” continued Gibson.

Recursion has already established a robust pipeline of therapeutic candidates in genetic diseases, including ataxia telangiectasia and cerebral cavernous malformation, among many others. Through technological development in malaria, Recursion plans to enable drug discovery across dozens of infectious disease indications over the next decade.

“Infectious diseases are extremely burdensome. Malaria alone affects hundreds of millions of people every year, and causes almost half a million deaths annually,” said Yolanda Chong, Ph.D., VP of Biology at Recursion. “A safe treatment that truly eliminates malaria would have an immense impact. That impact will only increase as we pursue treatments for additional infectious diseases. We are honored to undertake this project and are grateful for the opportunity to begin our work in infectious disease on such an important problem.”

The project also includes a subaward to accomplished antimalarial drug discovery expert Elizabeth Winzeler, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Drug Discovery in the Department of Pediatrics at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

“This grant is further evidence of the deepening commitment by key parties to eradicate infectious diseases in general and malaria in particular,” said Winzeler. “By working together, leveraging our particular strengths and expertise, we can make a powerful and productive combination.”

“This is a very exciting collaboration for us,” said Chong. “Dr. Winzeler and her team are true experts in this field. Working together, I’m confident that we will make great progress in the fight against infectious disease.”

(Source: Recursion Pharmaceuticals)


Filed Under: Drug Discovery

 

Related Articles Read More >

Zoliflodacin wins FDA nod for treatment of gonorrhea
FDA approved ENFLONSIA for the prevention of RSV in Infants
First clinical study results of Dupixent for atopic dermatitis in patients with darker skin tones 
Labcorp widens precision oncology toolkit, aims to speed drug-trial enrollment
“ddd
EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND STAY CONNECTED
Get the latest news and trends happening now in the drug discovery and development industry.

MEDTECH 100 INDEX

Medtech 100 logo
Market Summary > Current Price
The MedTech 100 is a financial index calculated using the BIG100 companies covered in Medical Design and Outsourcing.
Drug Discovery and Development
  • MassDevice
  • DeviceTalks
  • Medtech100 Index
  • Medical Design Sourcing
  • Medical Design & Outsourcing
  • Medical Tubing + Extrusion
  • Subscribe to our E-Newsletter
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • R&D World
  • Drug Delivery Business News
  • Pharmaceutical Processing World

Copyright © 2025 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising | About Us

Search Drug Discovery & Development

  • Home Drug Discovery and Development
  • Drug Discovery
  • Women in Pharma and Biotech
  • Oncology
  • Neurological Disease
  • Infectious Disease
  • Resources
    • Video features
    • Podcast
    • Voices
    • Webinars
  • Pharma 50
    • 2025 Pharma 50
    • 2024 Pharma 50
    • 2023 Pharma 50
    • 2022 Pharma 50
    • 2021 Pharma 50
  • Advertise
  • SUBSCRIBE