Thanks to everyone who participated in Folding@home this past year, and happy new year to you and yours!
With your help, we’ve made a lot of progress towards understanding biology and informing new medical advances.
This past year, we helped repurpose a diabetes drug to treat heart disease, laying the groundwork for development of new drugs for heart disease. Work continues on new antivirals, like the potential coronavirus treatment that we published just over a year ago. We’ve also continued to develop new strategies for combating Ebola and related filoviruses and to advance our understanding of drug resistance, particularly in the case of cancer.
These biomedical applications are all enabled by our ongoing work on basic biology. Our contributions range from developing new simulation algorithms to understanding how signaling molecules work and the mechanisms that membrane proteins use to move material in and out of cells.
We also hope you’re enjoying technical advances, likely the entirely new version of our client software that we released. This version is dramatically streamlined and open source, so we’re excited to have more of our community engage in development, especially of the user interface.
Thanks again, and we look forward to continue working with you in the coming year!