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Xanadu Quantum Technologies and the University of Alberta have formed a research partnership to explore quantum algorithms for designing photosensitizers used in photodynamic cancer therapy.
The collaboration will combine Xanadu’s quantum algorithm expertise with Professor Alex Brown’s research in computational modeling of photosensitizer systems.
The research aims to investigate whether quantum computing can help model light-matter interactions involved in developing new cancer treatment compounds.
Press release – Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“Xanadu”; NASDAQ/TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and the University of Alberta, have announced a strategic research partnership to pioneer novel quantum algorithms for cancer treatment. This partnership, led by the Xanadu algorithms team and Professor Alex Brown from the University of Alberta, aims to develop a quantum computing framework that can accelerate the design of next-generation photosensitizers used in photodynamic therapy, a powerful, non-invasive therapeutic cancer treatment.
