• Biopharma’s Dark Data Problem

    Bio-IT World | Worldwide spending on pharmaceutical R&D will reach $230 billion by 2026. So with investment dollars flowing in and R&D continuing an upward trajectory all should be well, right? Well… not exactly. Like many industries, pharmaceutical companies are facing a data problem—a dark data problem.

    Nov 19, 2021

  • Recursion’s Vision for the New Shape of Drug Discovery

    Bio-IT World | As a “digital native,” Recursion is working to reshape the drug discovery industry—quite literally. Gone is the vision of a traditional discovery funnel, wide at the top and slowly narrowing. Instead, Recursion proposes a drug discovery machine powering a T-shaped funnel where many options are considered, but failure is fast and the candidates that advance have a potentially higher likelihood of being a successful treatment. Easier said than done.

    Nov 17, 2021

  • Unique Repurposing Approach Identifies Potential Alzheimer’s Disease Drug

    Bio-IT World | Trials for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) drugs have repeatedly failed with billions of dollars invested. But a new, multidisciplinary drug repurposing model, described in a recent article in Nature Aging, combines drug repurposing with precision medicine, network-based drug targeting, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, and real-world data analysis.

    Nov 16, 2021