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RXRX / Recursion & Exscientia Shareholders Approv to combine
Recursion and Exscientia Shareholders Approve the Proposed Combination GlobeNewswire · GlobeNewswire Inc.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Wed, November 13, 2024 at 9:08 AM EST 6 min read RXRX +3.31% Update call scheduled for November 20th at 7:30 a.m. Eastern with anticipated close
Salt Lake City USA, Oxford UK, Nov. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recursion (Nasdaq: RXRX) and Exscientia plc (Nasdaq: EXAI) have each received overwhelming approval from their shareholders for the proposed combination between Recursion and Exscientia.
The transaction is expected to close on November 20, 2024, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining customary closing conditions. Recursion expects to host an update call after the anticipated close on November 20, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. ET / 5:30 a.m MT / 12:30 p.m. GMT. The company will broadcast the live stream from Recursion’s X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn and YouTube accounts. Questions can be submitted via this link ahead of time or during the livestream.
“The overwhelming support from both Recursion and Exscientia shareholders further validates our strong rationale for this business combination, and we look forward to closing the transaction next week,” said Chris Gibson, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion who will continue as the CEO of the combined company following closing.
“We look forward to bringing together Recursion's biological and chemical exploration and mapping capabilities with Exscientia's molecular design and automated chemistry synthesis capabilities to accelerate the discovery of better drugs for patients.”
The final voting results from the Recursion Special Meeting will be disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The final voting results for the Exscientia General Meeting and the Exscientia Court Meeting are disclosed in this Form 6-K, each filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Recursion
Recursion is a leading clinical stage TechBio company decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Central to its mission is the Recursion Operating System (OS), a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological, chemical and patient-centric datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale—up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly—and massive computational scale—owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world—Recursion is uniting technology, biology, chemistry and patient-centric data to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montreal, the San Francisco Bay Area and London.
About Exscientia
Exscientia is a technology-driven drug design and development company, committed to creating more effective medicines for patients, faster. Exscientia combines precision design with integrated experimentation, aiming to invent and develop the best possible drugs in the most efficient manner. Operating at the interfaces of human ingenuity, artificial intelligence (AI), automation and physical engineering, we pioneered the use of AI in drug discovery as the first company to progress AI-designed small molecules into a clinical setting. We have developed an internal pipeline focused on oncology, while our partnered pipeline extends to many other therapeutic areas. By leading this new approach to drug creation, we believe we can change the underlying economics of drug discovery and rapidly advance the best scientific ideas into medicines for patients. Recursion Investor Relations investor@recursion.com Recursion Media media@recursion.com Exscientia Investor Relations investors@exscientia.ai Exscientia Media media@exscientia.ai
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