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We’re thrilled to welcome Francesco Farina as Head of AI Research! After working on EDEN-AI with us at NVIDIA, he’s now leading our next wave of breakthroughs in AI + biology. Let’s go! 🚀

For more on EDEN & open roles visit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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At the World Economic Forum, experts warned antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health & macroeconomic threat — projected to cause 10M deaths a year by 2050 & cut global GDP by $3.4T.

Thanks @thealexknapp.bsky.social for reporting on how EDEN models could help

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Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone It will change regulators’ rule books

A new type of customised treatment could allow children with ultra-rare conditions to swap short horrible lives for something closer to normality

We’re thrilled to welcome NVIDIA as our latest investor — and grateful for their longstanding collaboration in building EDEN.

NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, has invested pre-Series C in Basecamp Research, accelerating our research & development efforts.

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What would it take for one AI system to design gene therapies, cell therapies, and antibiotics?

@faylinphd.bsky.social explores how EDEN was built to test that idea — using trillions of tokens of evolutionary DNA to learn biology’s underlying rules.

Read it here: www.genengnews.com/topics/artif...

Nvidia and Microsoft back AI breakthrough for gene therapies UK’s Basecamp Research uses species genomic sequence database to tackle cancers and superbugs

How combining AI with genetic databases can harness lessons from evolution to develop new diseases treatments.

An international collaboration using information from more than 1mn species offers potential solutions to problems from cancers to drug-resistant superbugs.

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Introducing EDEN — a 28B-parameter biological foundation model trained on 9.7T nucleotide tokens, including >10B novel genes from >1M species. This evolutionary scale is what makes generalisable biological design possible.

Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gene editing’s long-running “holy grail” is programmable gene insertion: placing large pieces of DNA precisely, safely & durably, regardless of mutation.

@endpts.com Endpoints tracks John Finn’s gene-insertion quest—from Intellia and Tome now to Basecamp Research.

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How can AI and nature’s hidden code lead to programmable gene therapies?

Basecamp Research Co-founder & CEO GlenGowers.bsky.social explores this question at @financialtimes.com Times Live Global Pharma and Biotech Summit (Nov 11–12) with industry leaders.

👉 For full details, visit bit.ly/4pPcJpd

We’re thrilled to share that Basecamp Research has been named to Fast Company’s 2025 World’s Most Innovative Companies list! 🚀

A huge thank you to our incredible team, partners, and the wider scientific community who support our mission.

Read more here: bit.ly/43S6CrF

#FCMostInnovative

Excited for #GTC2025! 💚 Gus Minto-Cowcher joins Microsoft onstage to share how Basecamp Research uses Azure VMs & AI Services—accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs—to decode complex biological data.

Catch it live: March 19, 12pm PDT @ Microsoft Theater. Don’t miss it!

#MLOps #GeneticMedicine #DrugDiscovery

The Future of Cell & Gene Therapies—Powered by AI

Basecamp Research CEO @glengowers.bsky.social is speaking at BIO-Europe Spring on how AI + the world’s largest biological dataset are shaping gene writing & programmable insertion.

For info go to bit.ly/3FpB9Df

#BIOEuropeSpring #GeneticMedicine

💊 BigDataWire explores how Basecamp Research is pushing the boundaries of discovery—traveling to the most remote corners of the planet to gather novel biological data that’s transforming AI drug development.

Read the story here: bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...

#AI #drugdiscovery #biodiversity

Thanks @naturebiotech.bsky.social for covering our work building the world’s largest foundational biological database for training AI.

🔬 What does this mean? Smarter AI, deeper insights & innovations that aid both biodiversity and drug discovery.

Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏔️ The journal Environmental Biome has published a our collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, examining the impact of sewage and wastewater from increased Antarctic tourism on antimicrobial resistance near the shores of the Earth's last great wildernesses.

📘 Read it here: bit.ly/3Chqut0

🌱 For #WEF2025, Tendai Chisowa & Viswa Colluru discuss how studying nature can transform AI in the pharmaceutical industry—lowering costs and speeding up innovation.

Thanks Tendai & Viswa for including Basecamp's work to close the data gap.

Read the article here: weforum.org/meetings/wor...

📅 Meet Us at Davos: Join Oliver at the "Accelerating Business Solutions for Nature" panel on January 22.

Want to connect in Davos? Reach out to us at explore@basecamp-research.com

The Future of Biodiversity Finance: Removing Barriers to Action Extractive practices, short-term profit maximization and shareholder capitalism are accelerating the extinction of life on Earth. What measures must be taken to end such destructive processes?

🎥 In this video, André Hoffmann—author of "The New Nature of Business," Roche board Vice-Chairman & a Basecamp Research investor—explores biodiversity as an asset class www.weforum.org/videos/biodi...

As #WEF2025 helps define the year's priorities, 3 themes stand out: safeguarding the planet, advancing industries in the intelligent age, & reimagining growth.

🗻 Basecamp Research's Oliver Vince is headed to #Davos2025. This year’s #WEF theme, "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age," aligns with our mission to build a global network of biodiversity partnerships to train next-gen AI.

📅 Want to connect in Davos? Reach out at explore@basecamp-research.com.

🧬 At #BioLogicSummit, geraldenemunsamy.bsky.social
will share how Basecamp Research's database, the largest & most diverse of its kind, helped our AI protein structure prediction tool outperform AlphaFold by up to 6x.

For info, visit biologicsummit.com/training-dat...

#drugdiscovery #biotech

This Startup Says It Can Beat Deepmind’s Gamechanging Protein AI Basecamp Research says its software platform can better predict the way proteins behave — not with better algorithms, but with higher-quality data.

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How to Fund Biodiversity and Fight ‘Biopiracy’ Over the last decade, technological innovation has fundamentally changed how companies make use of the world’s genetic resources.

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To feed an AI that designs new enzymes, Basecamp Research hunts rare proteins at the world's end In a new study, Basecamp and Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona detail a new AI model called ZymCTRL that designs new enzymes.

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Basecamp raises $60M to travel the globe and fill AI data gaps, signs deal with David Liu London-based startup Basecamp Research has closed a $60 million Series B round that will help expand its genomic database and what it sees as gaps in biological information that will ...

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Basecamp Research pushes for programmable genetic medicines with new computer cluster, CSO and Massachusetts lab British tech firm Basecamp Research is making a big push forward to further its mission of developing programmable genetic medicines. | British tech firm Basecamp Research is making a big push forward...

Read some recent coverage of us here:

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Heading to #JPM2025? 🧬 Basecamp Research's
Co-founder & CEO @glengowers.bsky.social, CCO Anupama Hoey & new CSO John Finn will be there, meeting partners and exploring new collaborations.

📅 If you’d like to meet in San Francisco, contact us at explore@basecamp-research.com

🧬We're excited to share a series of announcements: John Finn has joined Basecamp Research as CSO, we've opened a US office and lab & we built one of Europe's largest industrial supercomputers with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing. Read Fierce Biotech's story here: www.fiercebiotech.com/research/com...
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🎄Happy Holidays from all of us at Basecamp Research. Thank you to the clients, biodiversity partners, investors, advisors, scientific collaborators & journalists who helped share our story over this past phenomenal year!

Stay tuned for 2025, we'll kick off the new year with some big announcements!

🗞️ In the The Biologist's latest issue, Basecamp Research's @glengowers.bsky.social & Oliver Vince explain how to equitably supply the high-quality biological data that advanced AI models need.

Basecamp Research is also in the running for
#SXSWLondon. You can help by voting for us: bit.ly/3VDFBn8