Quris Technologies Ltd. (Quris-AI) and Merck KGaA have extended their collaboration after a successful initial preclinical study of Quris-AI’s BioAI drug safety platform.

Deep Genomics Inc. has introduced its artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model for RNA, BigRNA, which enables discovery of disease mechanisms and candidate therapeutics.

Replay Holdings LLC has announced a research collaboration between Jura Bio Inc. and Syena, a cell therapy product company launched by Replay and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center earlier this year, to develop T-cell receptor (TCR)-based therapies.

Benevolentai Ltd. has signed a strategic collaboration with Merck KGaA to identify novel drug candidates, initially for three targets in oncology, neurology and immunology.

Evaxion Biotech A/S has announced the initiation of a novel pipeline program, EVX-B3, an artificial intelligence (AI)-designed vaccine candidate against an undisclosed bacterial pathogen. The new vaccine project will be the subject of a co-funded collaboration between Evaxion and an undisclosed partner.

Dewpoint Therapeutics Inc. and Chemify Ltd. have partnered to develop a suite of digitally discovered and automatically synthesized novel molecules on Chemify’s programmable chemistry platform against condensate targets of interest in Dewpoint’s oncology and neurodegeneration pipeline.

Noetik Inc. has closed an oversubscribed $14 million seed financing round. The company has built a multimodal tissue profiling platform that combines self-supervised learning with spatial biology to tackle problems in cancer immunology.

Xtalpi Inc. and Parthenon Therapeutics Inc. (now known as Incendia Therapeutics Inc.) have entered into a collaboration to discover novel therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of solid tumors.

Serengen GmbH and Deargen Inc. have established a collaboration to accelerate the drug discovery process by bringing together Serengen’s novel DNA encoded library (DEL) technology with Deargen’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery platform, Deardti.