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Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US$2-million contest

Quantum machines are making inroads into biology but have no ‘advantage’ over classical machines yet.
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  1. Elizabeth Gibney

A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a potential use for quantum computers in health care. But no team was awarded the competition’s $5-million grand prize.

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Nature 652, 1100-1101 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01236-x

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