Recursion Pharmaceuticals soars 121% after Nvidia invests $50 million in the biotech for AI drug discovery
utilizes artificial intelligence to help speed up the drug discovery process,Both companies will collaborate on software for the biotech industry, with the hopes of more quickly creating patient treatments for a wide variety of ailments and diseases.
Recursion said it would rely on Nvidia's cloud services to develop its AI-enabled drug discovery models. Earlier this year, Nvidia announced the launch of BioNeMo, an AI drug discovery platform targeting the biotech industry. "With our powerful dataset and NVIDIA's accelerated computing capabilities, we intend to create groundbreaking foundation models in biology and chemistry at a scale unlike anything that has ever been released in the biological space," RecursionRecursion has a library of more than 3 trillion searchable gene and compound relationships, which will serve as the foundation of the company's drug discovery program.
The investment from Nvidia was executed as a private investment in a public equity, so the terms of the deal were not disclosed. , which included an update on the four drugs it currently has under development for rare diseases, as well as details on a web application it recently launched called MolRec.
Shares of Recursion surged to a high of $14.99 in Wednesday's trading session before paring its gains to about 80%. The stock added more than $1 billion to its market valuation. Recursion went public in April 2021 and surged to a post-IPO high of $42.81. Since then, it has dropped 72%.
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