The Frederick News-Post
by Kate Masters
October 28, 2017
The goal itself is jaw-dropping. Cut the development for cancer-fighting drugs — a notoriously lengthy and expensive process — from six years to one.
But leaders with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, along with three partnering organizations, are convinced they can do it with the power of supercomputing.
“This is appropriately called a moonshot because we’re trying to do something that could never be done before,” said David Heimbrook, the Frederick laboratory’s director. “But the overarching need is strikingly clear. It takes six years or more to go from identifying a target in oncology to developing a compound. It’s a very expensive process and it’s a very long process, and in the meantime, patients are dying”…
