How can the health and life sciences sectors embrace quantum technologies?
Our own Pavel Kalinin posed this question at Quantum Effects in Stuttgart recently, when he moderated a panel on how to accelerate commercial applications of quantum tech in the health and life science sectors.
Here are some insights from the conversation:
- The industry needs to collaborate with quantum technology providers to discover problems to fix
- Industry end-users need to build expertise in-house by partnering with technology providers, who at the same time help make it easier by focusing on the interaction layer with actual solutions that the tech can provide, versus underlying technology
- What is unique is the support that exists in the industry, as well as the tremendous excitement for the potential of quantum tech. NOW is the time to capitalise (both for startups as well as for end-users) on this support to bring about eventual real-world applications
- In terms of potential use cases: Sensing already has physical products that can improve imaging (e.g. measuring cells at quantum scale). Simulation use cases (complex molecular and materials simulations, predict atomic-level processes) will require more co-development and integration, and communications and security also have a role to play
Thanks to the panelists for their input:
- Maud Einhorn, Technical Account Executive at Quantinuum
- Romana Schirhagl, founder and CSO, QT Sense
- Krisztian Benyo, Ph.D., Technical Business Development Manager, Pasqal
- Michael Marthaler, CEO & Co-Founder, at HQS Quantum Simulations