UC San Diego Joins IBM World Community Grid’s Search for Zika Treatment

Drug discovery scientist teams up with crowdsourced research project.

IBMs World Community Grid and scientists from Brazil, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have launched OpenZika, a project to find drug candidates to treat Zika, a fast spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.

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