By: Dr. Anna Croft University of Nottingham, UK 28 Sep 2018 Summary In this update, principal investigator Dr. Anna Croft shares two recent milestones for the Help Stop TB research team, and discusses their continuing search for additional researchers. The Help Stop TB (HSTB) project uses the massive computing […]
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The research team members pictured above are (from left to right): Vladimir Gligorijevic (Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute), Tommi Vatanen (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard), Tomasz Kosciolek (University of California San Diego), Rob Knight (University of California San Diego), Rich Bonneau (Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute), Doug Renfrew (Simons Foundation’s Flatiron […]
By: Dr. Akira Nakagawara, MD, PhD CEO of the Saga Medical Center KOSEIKAN and President Emeritus, Chiba Cancer Center 5 Jun 2018 Summary The Smash Childhood Cancer research team recently chose several new target molecules as the focus of their current work. Learn more about the significance of these […]
By: Dr. Anna Croft University of Nottingham, UK 29 Mar 2018 Summary The Help Stop TB researchers are looking to expand their team as they analyze the large amount of data generated by World Community Grid. Read about their plans in this update. Dr. Athina Meletiou (pictured above speaking […]
By: The OpenZika research team 3 Oct 2017 Summary The OpenZika researchers are continuing to screen millions of chemical compounds as they look for potential treatments for the Zika virus. In this update, they report on the second stage of the project, using a newly prepared, massive library of […]
The Clean Energy Project research team at Harvard would like to thank the volunteers who supported us through two phases of the project! Currently, we are getting ready to share our findings in at least one publication and a conference. We are also weighing different options for further work with […]
ZIKV NS3 helicase bound to RNA with the predicted binding modes of five approved drugs (from our second set of candidates) selected by virtual screening. These candidates are shown as surfaces with different shades of green. The identification of these candidates and the video were made by Dr. Alexander L. Perryman. We […]
Background Every year, approximately 300,000 children are diagnosed with cancer and about 80,000 die of cancer. In 2009, World Community Grid joined the battle to improve these grim statistics by supporting Help Fight Childhood Cancer. With the aid of more than 200,000 volunteers who donated their devices’ computing time, the […]
By: Dr. Carlos Muskus López Coordinator, Molecular Biology and Computational Unit, PECET University of Antioquia 14 Nov 2016 Summary The Drug Search for Leishmaniasis research team has created an online database of the highest-scoring results from their research on World Community Grid. This database will help accelerate the work […]
By: The OpenZika research team 3 Nov 2016 Summary The OpenZika researchers are ready to begin laboratory testing for five chemical compounds which may lead to potential treatments. In this update, the research team discusses why the search for an anti-Zika drug is so important, describes the process of […]
By: Dr. Carlos Muskus López Coordinator, Molecular Biology and Computational Unit, PECET University of Antioquia 8 Sep 2016 Summary The Drug Search for Leishmaniasis team recently published their findings in the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. Using World Community Grid’s computing power, they have identified several drug compounds which […]
Help Stop TB Researchers Begin First Stages of Data Analysis 21 Jul 2016 Summary In Help Stop TB’s first project update, researcher Athina Meletiou gives an overview of why this project is important and what the team is doing with the early data. Help Stop TB researcher Athina Meletiou […]
Lay Summary: The Help Fight Childhood Cancer project researchers have published a paper on serendipitous results they found from the drug candidate search run on World Community Grid. The project originally searched for candidate compounds that targeted specific proteins to help cure a childhood brain cancer called neuroblastoma. Some of […]
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the biggest global killers. In 2014, there were 9.6 million newly diagnosed cases and more than 1.5 million people who died from the disease. More than 1 million of these new cases, and 140,000 deaths, were estimated for children. The World Health Organization has declared […]
Sandflies, such as the P. papatasi shown above, are responsible for the spread of leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis, which is one of the most neglected tropical diseases in the world, infects more than two million people in 97 countries. There are no available vaccines to prevent the disease, and the treatments can […]
Overview Our FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2 team is getting acclimated to running the research software on this very powerful yet unconventional computational resource. We are analyzing preliminary results from the first batches of research tasks, which were used to test different simulation approaches, and honing in on the most efficient […]
