Mark Harfouche

@RecursionChris This is fantastic. Stepping forward to drive progress when others won’t - thank you. Without the SBIR program our “impossible” idea never would have taken off. But now we are flying, making the fastest live-cell imaging technology in the world to accelerate discoveries 🔬

Today, we are announcing a new pre-seed venture fund – Altitude Lab Fund – to support early-stage biotech startups facing the loss of SBIR grants due to recent federal funding policy shifts which have left many biotech founders in limbo. I wrote about why these funds are so critical – and why this moment represents a call to action in the industry – in an op-ed for @statnews. Namely, NIH and SBIR funding led to the formation of leading biotechs and breakthroughs – from monoclonal antibody therapies, to the COVID-19 vaccine, to advances in CRISPR technology, AIDS treatments, and the HPV vaccine. @RecursionPharma benefited from these funds, too – both to support the early research that led to our founding – and, after it was founded, receiving $3.5 million in NIH Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants, which helped us get off the ground. We’ve since raised more than 400 times our SBIR funding in private investment to advance our platform and improve the way drugs are discovered. Today, we are a $4 billion publicly-traded company with 8 therapeutics in clinical trials, more than 10 in advanced discovery, and R&D partnerships with leading pharmas. And we believe that there are many other worthwhile biotech companies that need that same support to lead to the next great American medical breakthrough – and that we as an industry need to step up. The Altitude Lab Fund – anchored by myself and biotech entrepreneur @dave_bearss – will provide: ● $100,000–$250,000 in pre-seed investment capital ● 12 months of lab and office space ● Admission to the competitive accelerator program run by our incubator, Altitude Lab in Salt Lake City, which includes exclusive mentorship and access to top tier national funds. Learn more about the fund: ir.recursion.com/news-releases/… Read my op-ed: statnews.com/2025/02/19/nih… Check-out the story in Tech-Crunch: techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/nih… CEO of a company caught in the SBIR-funding turmoil with a great impact score and interested in the Altitude Lab Fund? altitudelab.org/altitude-lab-f…

Heading back states side with the @RamonaOptics team after an amazing week in Europe looking at Organoids!!! Those guys move fast! Don’t blink! Total uber count while in NL: 0

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The MCAM Vireo we have been working on for 5 years is in Europe! Very excited to join it in a few hours to capture new fluorescence imaging data!

Thanks #SLAS2025 it was a blast speaking to everyone thanks for stopping our booth! Back to Durham to take in all the feedback everybody gave us with our team!

Good morning #SLAS25! Be sure to stop by booth 2147 to see the world's fastest live cell imaging and analysis platform! #scicomm #cellbio #microscopy

In case you can’t make it to our booked out #slas2025 demos, find our upcoming webinar on Automated High-throughput organoid and zebrafish Screening the 26th of Feb! ramonaoptics.com/events

Ola #ZDM17! Our poster session is today so don't forget to stop by number 48 and say hi to John!

Happy #fluorescencefriday to all and a reminder to all #ZDM17 attendees to stop by our booth and tell us what you've been working on! We'll see everyone on Tuesday!

NINDS is excited to announce the appointment of pediatric neurologist Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH as Deputy Director. Dr. Poduri is a leader in the field of epilepsy genetics and her work has led to the discovery of several genes associated with epilepsy. go.nih.gov/l9AllrS

Where do you see 3D behavior in your #zebrafish research?

@NIH_ORIP @RamonaOptics Thank you for the support for all these years! Looking forward to continuing to develop the technology and company!

🚨In this month’s #ResearchHighlight, check out how ORIP's supported small business Ramona Optics Inc. is overcoming challenges and limitations of current microscopes with the MCAM™ imaging technology. @RamonaOptics Learn more: orip.nih.gov/about-orip/res…

@voigtvision @EngertLab @MCB_Harvard Congratulations Fabian!!!!

I am thrilled to announce that I've been awarded a Branco Weiss Fellowship to push the frontiers of imaging neuronal activity during social interactions @EngertLab @MCB_Harvard and to support starting my own lab! 🥳🐟🔬🔭 #Microscopy brancoweissfellowship.org/fellow/voigt/

@PWhyte_Fagundes And here's a sneak peek of the 3D analysis of the #zebrafish from this data set!

And here's an action shot of our CEO Gregor Horstmeyer and @PWhyte_Fagundes using our MCAM™ Kestrel system. Stay tuned for a preview of the analysis! #zebrafish #scicomm #microscopy

3-dimensional tracking of #zebrafish behavior at scale | @RamonaOptics

Wyss team is awarded first @ARPA_H agreement with researchers at Harvard University for developing a disease-agnostic novel RNA therapeutic with the potential to treat diverse diseases. @NatalieArtzi @DonIngber @ARPA_HDirector wyss.harvard.edu/news/wyss-inst…

@tal_lab We would love to see some pictures on X!!!