Quantum in Life Sciences
Drug discovery is a high-risk, high-reward field, where a blockbuster therapy can deliver life-changing clinical benefits to millions of patients and generate billions of dollars in profit—but more than 90% of new drug development efforts ultimately prove fruitless. Quantum computing can help pharma and biotech companies to stack the odds in their favor.
Optimizing Drug Design
Large pharma companies like GlaxoSmithKline and emerging biotech companies like Menten AI and POLARISqb are already exploring how D-Wave quantum hybrid technology can enable faster and more efficient computer-aided drug design. Quantum computing can also contribute to other scientific and operational aspects of the life sciences industry, offering a way to replace inefficient trial-and-error processes with an automated, engineering-based approach.
Menten AI Battles COVID-19 with Quantum Peptide Therapeutics
Using hybrid quantum applications, Menten has been able to solve astronomical protein design problems. They’ve seen extremely encouraging results, with hybrid quantum procedures often finding better solutions than competing classical solvers for de novo protein design.
Unlock Your New Competitive Edge
Quantum computing has the potential to radically impact life sciences and healthcare. The most forward-thinking organizations have already gotten started. Industry associations like the Pistoia Alliance and QuPharm are working to advance this transformation.
According to industry associations, 82% of life science organizations agreed that quantum computing will have a commercial impact within the next decade.
Built for Optimization Across the Value Chain
Quantum computers, especially quantum annealing systems like D-Wave’s, are well-suited to deliver optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with large numbers of variables and constraints.
These powerful computing capabilities can potentially be leveraged to tackle thorny problems at many stages of the drug development process. This includes crunching ‘big data’ from clinical studies to guide precision medicine efforts for various diseases or identifying and optimizing chemical compounds with promising therapeutic properties.
Make Quantum Part of Your Digital Strategy
D-Wave offers a phased, consultative approach that guides manufacturing enterprises along their quantum journey to ensure demonstrable success and early proven ROI. Get started with quantum computing today by working with us on use case identification, problem exploration and formulation, and building real-world in-production quantum applications.
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