🚀AI’s current proof points in drug discovery – and the next frontier
In an interview with The
@BioCentury Show, Recursion CEO and President Najat Khan, PhD talked to executive editor
@SelinaMKoch about the differentiators to look for as the TechBio industry matures.
“The barolving around ‘what is the endgame?’” Najat says. “And the endgame is to make differentiated medicines that matter…no matter what dataset you have, what model you have, or what approaches you’re using.”
She points out that while many early stage companies are focused on building models, Recursion is in the next stage of its evolution: delivering proof points. That requires an end-to-end approach, she says. “It's not enough to be better in just biology, chemistry, or the clinic. You have to use AI across the entire vertical tech stack.”
Najat shares how she sees AI’s most measurable early advantages emerging in chemistry and clinical trial execution. In ClinTech, Najat notes that Recursion is applying AI to improve patient stratification, drive smarter trial design, and accelerate enrollment.
The next frontier, she says, is “out-of-domain” prediction — the ability for models to make useful inferences in less-charted biological terrain.
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