Recursion Provides Business Updates and Reports Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

"We are excited to have initiated four clinical trials in the past three quarters," said Chris Gibson, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO at Recursion. "In addition, our first clinical stage program discovered using our mapping and navigating approach to biology was nominated as a clinical stage program, with a Phase 2 clinical trial being planned now. We believe that our consistency in advancing our internal pipeline and transformational partnerships coupled with our willingness to continuously evolve our platform to more completely map and navigate biology and chemistry highlight Recursion as a leader within technology-enabled drug discovery."

Summary of Business Highlights

• Internal Pipeline
• Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) (REC-994): In March 2022, we announced the initiation of our Phase 2 SYCAMORE clinical trial, which is a double-blind, placebo-controlled safety, tolerability and exploratory efficacy study of this drug candidate in 60 participants with CCM. At this time, we continue to actively enroll participants. 
• Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) (REC-2282): In June 2022, we announced the initiation of our Phase 2/3 POPLAR clinical trial, which is a parallel group, two stage, randomized, multicenter study of this drug candidate in approximately 90 participants with progressive NF2-mutated meningiomas. At this time, we continue to actively enroll participants.
• Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) (REC-4881): In September 2022, we announced the initiation of our Phase 2 TUPELO clinical trial, which is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled two-part clinical trial to evaluate efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of REC-4881 in patients with FAP.
• AXIN1/APC Mutant Cancers (REC-4881): In October 2022, we announced the nomination of REC-4881 for the potential treatment of AXIN1/APC mutant cancers with an initial focus on hepatocellular carcinoma and ovarian cancer. We have prioritized resources to accelerate planning to initiate a Phase 2 trial. The advancement of this program highlights our intent to focus our internal pipeline on oncology and oncology-like opportunities.
• Clostridium difficile Colitis (REC-3964): In September 2022, we announced the initiation of our Phase 1 clinical trial, which is a first-in-human protocol evaluating single and multiple doses of REC-3964 in healthy volunteers and will assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetic profile of REC-3964.
• GM2 Gangliosidosis (REC-3599): Due to the advancement of our program in AXIN1/APC mutant cancers and the increasing number of oncology programs moving towards the clinic, we deprioritized our GM2 gangliosidosis program and redirected resources. We will make efforts to work with patient foundations to transfer relevant scientific knowledge.
• Transformational Collaborations
• We continue to advance efforts to potentially discover new therapeutics with our strategic partners in the areas of fibrotic disease (Bayer) as well as neuroscience and a single indication in gastrointestinal oncology (Roche and Genentech).
• Recursion OS
• Transcriptomics and Industrialized Validation: We continue to build out our scaled transcriptomics platform which has now been adopted into the research operating plans of the majority of Recursion's active programs in order to drive validation, lead selection, and optimization. We are developing an end-to-end industrialized validation process in order to translate phenomic and transcriptomic insights from our maps of biology and chemistry.
• InVivomics and Digital Tolerability: Digital tolerability is a novel in vivo method for analytical dose selection and interpretation prior to initiating efficacy studies. By the end of the year, we are planning to have 100% of new chemical entities evaluated using digital tolerability before starting any long-term efficacy studies in animals. Furthermore, we continue to increase the dimensionality of digital biomarker signals measured in our preclinical in vivo studies.
• Chemical Technology and Machine Learning: We have completed the design of the remaining core component modules of our automated chemical microsynthesis platform. We envision advanced machine learning approaches as guiding experiment design and drug candidate selection while exploring new ways of building maps of biology and chemistry in order to improve our ability to predict treatments and understand causal mechanisms. Likewise, in the third quarter, we began an initiative in molecular modeling to use predictive and generative methods to drive chemistry optimization.
• Additional Corporate Updates
• Private Placement Offering: On October 27, 2022, we completed a private placement of common stock, raising gross proceeds of approximately $150.3 million, before deducting placement agent fees and other expenses.
• ESG Reporting: In August 2022, we announced receiving a Prime Rating for ESG performance from the industry-renowned Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). A Prime Rating is awarded to companies with ESG performance above a sector-specific threshold and is assessed by ISS using an "absolute best in class" methodology.

Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results

• Cash Position: Cash and cash equivalents were $454.6 million as of September 30, 2022, which excludes proceeds from the above private placement offering.
• Revenue: Total revenue, consisting primarily of revenue from collaborative agreements, was $13.2 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $2.5 million for the third quarter of 2021. The increase was due to revenue recognized from our Roche-Genentech collaboration.
• Research and Development Expenses: Research and development expenses were $40.8 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $33.2 million for the third quarter of 2021. The increase in research and development expenses was due to increased clinical costs as studies progressed.
• General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses were $19.5 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $15.7 million for the third quarter of 2021. The increase in general and administrative expenses was due to the growth in size of the company's operations, including an increase in salaries and wages of $4.0 million and other administrative costs associated with operating a public company.
• Net Loss: Net loss was $60.4 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to a net loss of $47.4 million for the third quarter of 2021.

About Recursion

Recursion is the clinical-stage biotechnology company industrializing drug discovery by decoding biology. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical 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 and chemistry 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 and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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