We care deeply about our mission – decoding biology to radically improve lives – and every step we take to achieve that mission.
As our 2025 Corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report demonstrates, accelerating the industrialization of drug discovery at Recursion is also about advancing principles that we care deeply about as a company. They include:
🔹 A More Sustainable Approach:
▫️ We completed a GHG emissions reduction roadmap and calculated Scope 3 (indirect) emissions for the first time.
▫️ We continued investing in renewable energy credits (RECs) to offset 100% of our energy use at our Salt Lake City headquarters.
🔹 Supporting Patients:
▫️ Recursion supports patient communities through partnerships with
@AmericanCancer,
@ChildrensTumor,
@RareDiseases, Alliance to Cure and Peggy Lillis Foundation, among many others.
▫️ We ensure a geographically, socio-economically, and ethnically diverse population in clinical trials to give us confidence that our results are generalizable to a representative patient population.
🔹 Building an Inclusive TechBio Community:
▫️ Our Utah-based health care accelerator
@AltitudeLab , has enrolled 31 startups in its 24-month program to date. 9 of these startups have graduated and are scaling their Seed- and Series A-funded ventures in Salt Lake City.
▫️ In 2024, Altitude startups secured over $29 million in seed and Series A funding, accounting for 41% of all early stage healthcare financings in Utah, based on available data.
🔹 Commitment to Open Science:
We released publicly available datasets and models like:
▫️ RxRx3-core, a streamlined, 18GB dataset of microscopy images.
rxrx.ai/datasets;
▫️ OpenPhenom-S/16, a ready-to-use model that outperforms traditional microscopy analysis techniques
rxrx.ai/phenom;
▫️ SAFE-GPT, a powerful AI model that can design new molecules.
github.com/datamol-io/safe
🔹 A “One Recursion” Culture
▫️ In 2024, we published Decoding Recursion – an immersive book that serves as both a reflection of our journey and a guide to our future.
recursion.com/recursion-deco…
▫️ We launched a Returnship Program, providing a pathway for individuals to return to the industry after a career break of two or more years.
▫️ Our pay equity analysis found no material systemic pay differences between genders.
▫️ We launched Recursion University (RXU) in February 2024, an internal learning platform designed to connect employees with the core elements of our culture, skills, and expertise.
👉 Read more:
recursion.com/esg