Cleveland Clinic and IBM Unveil the Nation’s First Quantum Computer for Medical Research

The Cleveland Clinic-IBM Discovery Accelerator is a collaborative center that combines Cleveland Clinic’s medical expertise with IBM’s technology expertise.

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Clinic and IBM unveiled a first-of-its-kind medical device Monday. The first quantum computer designed for medical research.

The two organizations have been joined by city leaders to recognize the tremendous advancement in technology.

It almost looks like a work of art, but it’s actually a “mega-mind” capable of thinking faster than the speed of light.

Think of your home computer like Spider-Man. He can do some pretty cool stuff, but he can only think about one problem at a time. Sometimes it takes, well, time, which explains the wheel of fate that turns while you wait.

A quantum computer is more like Superman. Using quantum mechanics, he can take one problem and come up with thousands of different solutions at the same time, even adding complexity. And it does it more than a hundred million times faster than a supercomputer.

The quantum computer is a key part of a 10-year partnership between the two organizations to fundamentally accelerate the pace of biomedical research through high-performance computing.

“The current pace of scientific discovery is unacceptably slow, while our research needs are growing exponentially,” said Lara Jehi, MD, director of information research at the Cleveland Clinic. “We cannot afford to spend a decade or more moving from a research idea in the lab to a therapy in the marketplace. Quantum offers a future to change this pace, especially in the fields of drug discovery and machine learning.”

There are 25 clinic projects under development, including the discovery of new drugs. A computer can turn various molecules into drugs, which would take years in a lab.

“You only create the formula with the highest potential and then test it to reduce the time it takes to develop new drugs,” said Dr. Jaehee.

Since it is the first quantum computer intended for health research, scientists will first guess about it by asking questions they already know the answers to.

“To see how the answers he gives compare to the answers we know, and we’re going to use that information to pinpoint exactly what he can and can’t do,” Dr. Jaehee said.

But over time, he will only become smarter, and the more information he gets, the more solutions he can find.

“This computer will take us to a level that literally no other healthcare system has access to right now,” said Dr. Jehi.

She also said that they would collaborate with universities and other medical centers on research. In addition, several scientists from around the world are already planning trips to Cleveland to see if Quantum can help with their scientific research.

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