Quantum computer, new medical bet

Health research has gone through different stages and technological advances have allowed solutions to many diseases to be discovered. Now CWith the development of new technologies, such as the quantum computer that the Cleveland Clinic began to implement, they hope to have earlier diagnoses and more effective treatments.

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To that extent, as mentioned from the medical center “with it they will dedicate themselves to health care research to accelerate biomedical discoveries”.

“This technology holds tremendous promise for revolutionizing healthcare and accelerating progress toward new care, cures, and solutions for patients. Quantum and other advanced computing technologies will help researchers address historical scientific bottlenecks and potentially find new treatments for patients with diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and diabetes.“, says Tom Mihaljevic, MD, CEO and President of the Cleveland Clinic and President of Morton L. Mandel.

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) mentions that quantum technologies are characterized by “using and taking advantage of properties and phenomena of the microscopic world that do not occur in the macro world”. That is, they are in charge of studying the things that happen and that are not perceptible to the naked eye by human beings.

The first thing is that the Cleveland quantum computer it works as an emerging technology that uses the laws of quantum mechanics.

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In that sense, “researchers use this technology to move their workloads to the cloud and access cases including personalized medicine and other large-scale, high-intensity data computational needs”.

The Cleveland Clinic have implemented this type of technology in processes such as: development of quantum computing pipelines to examine and optimize drugs directed at specific proteins; Improving a quantum-enhanced prediction model for cardiovascular risk after non-cardiac surgery; application of artificial intelligence, to search for findings of yessequencing genome scans and large databases of drug targets, to find effective existing drugs that could help patients with Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

In fact, the medical center leading the implementation of the quantum computer has launched more than 25 projects with which they have discovered drugs, predictive models and images.

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From these analyzes, rapid diagnoses have been achieved and better treatments for diseases have been offered.

The implementation of this type of technology in medicine plays a key role, because many diseases have solutions if they are diagnosed early and treated promptly, according to experts in the sector.

To which is added that “With the exponentially greater computational power of quantum computing, experts believe it will be possible to simulate with computers the effect of different chemical compounds on organisms at the molecular level. This would make it possible to design new medicines with computers much faster and cheaper.”, as he affirms Marcos Allende, specialist in quantum technologies and leader of IDB projects.

CLAUDIA M. QUINTERO RUEDA
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