Fighting pandemics with urgent computing in drug discovery

BioDT Talks

What does computer science have to do with fighting pandemics?

In our fifth BioDT Talks episode, Prof. Gianluca Palermo of Politecnico di Milano reveals how in-silico drug discovery and urgent computing are revolutionising medicine.

With drug development costing up to $2 billion per medication, computer simulations are accelerating research by evaluating thousands of potential treatments against disease targets before expensive lab testing begins. We all have in mind what happened five years ago during the COVID19 pandemic. During a pandemic, time is a critical factor: finding a medical treatment or a vaccine in short time can limit and reduce the spread of a virus. Well, supercomputers helps a lot in this. Discover how supercomputers with urgent computing protocols helped combat COVID-19 by tracking viral spread, understanding infection mechanisms, and identifying potential treatments, all at unprecedented speed.
Watch now to see how computational power is becoming one of our most powerful tools against future health crises!

BioDT is a research project funded by the European Union that aims to develop a digital twin prototype for the study and analysis of biodiversity, in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. The Biodiversity Digital Twin prototype provides advanced models for simulation and prediction capabilities, through practical use cases addressing critical issues related to global biodiversity dynamics. The BioDT Talks is the new 6-part series exploring how data, science, and technology are reshaping our response to the biodiversity crisis.

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