Atombio at ICLR '26

mRNAutilus at ICLR 2026

In exciting news, we recently attended ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to share progress on our latest models and projects. Having attended ICLR last year in Singapore, we were thrilled to engage with the brightest researchers and enthusiasts from across the world to delve into the latest in inference-time strategies, pretraining methods, and molecule design.

We gave a talk at the workshop on Generative and Experimental Perspectives for Biomolecular Design (GEM) on mRNAutilus, our mRNA design engine driving AutoNA. One of our engineers, Sawan, unveiled the latest in vitro data collected from experiments using our optimized mRNAs. Importantly, he highlighted how our zero-shot mRNAs achieve heightened, durable expression over commercially-optimized and other AI-optimized methods across several genes and cell lines. The recognition from GEM at last year's ICLR — culminating in a seed grant award to our team — kickstarted this project, which has now come full circle. We were thrilled with community engagement in response to our talk, which signifies how important tools like these are for the future of nucleic acid design.