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Oncology candidate REC-1245 demonstrates safety in early clinical trial<br>18 months from target discovery to IND; company aims to obtain efficacy data by year-end

Recursion Pharmaceuticals increased the efficiency of drug candidate discovery by up to 15-fold through its AI platform, while the oncology candidate REC-1245 demonstrated safety in an early clinical trial without dose-limiting toxicity. REC-1245 is an RBM39 protein degrader that has not previously been drugged, and the process from target discovery to approval of the investigational new drug (IND) application was completed in 18 months. The company is currently enrolling patients in the high-dose cohort and aims to obtain its first efficacy data by the end of this year.

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