ProQR Therapeutics N.V. (Nasdaq: PRQR) (ProQR), a company dedicated to changing lives through transformative RNA therapies based on its proprietary Axiomer™ RNA editing technology platform, today announced its AI strategy to enhance discovery on the Axiomer platform, including a partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks and the formation of an AI Advisory Board.

ProQR's partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks provides ProQR access to Ginkgo's 50+ instrument autonomous lab, Nebula. Ginkgo's autonomous lab removes a main bottleneck in AI-enabled drug discovery by increasing data generation throughput and speed. This capability is expected to increase the scale and speed of experimental data generation, enabling more efficient discovery timelines and improving the ability of ProQR's discovery AI models to predict drug candidates. Ginkgo made a strategic equity investment in ProQR in connection with the partnership.