Scientists launch SF-based effort to dramatically cut cancer drug discovery time

SFGate

by Bay City News Service

October 27, 2017

Two organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and two outside have come together to cut the time it takes to discover cancer drugs from about six years to one, officials with the consortium said today.

The effort, which launched today, brings together experts in drug discovery at the University of California at San Francisco, experts in supercomputing at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, experts in chemical and biological data at GlaxoSmithKline and experts in medicine at the Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research…