Volunteering: When Lauren Moran isn't typing on her laptop, it's busy with heavy-duty computations for medical research projects. | Photograph by Joao Canziani
Ibm's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research.
At Grid HQ: "We're opening up the field of bioinformatics," says Ibm VP Robin Willner. Photograph by Reed Young
For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full-time job -- "stat geek" on the New York Yankees' media relations staff -- Moran screens drug candidates daily. And continuously. She conducts experiments while talking on the phone to her parents, attending games at Yankee Stadium, and watching episodes of The Office in her Bronx apartment. Even in the dead of night.
When she's not trying to cure cancer, she's busy cracking other monumental problems: AIDS.
Ibm's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research.
At Grid HQ: "We're opening up the field of bioinformatics," says Ibm VP Robin Willner. Photograph by Reed Young
For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full-time job -- "stat geek" on the New York Yankees' media relations staff -- Moran screens drug candidates daily. And continuously. She conducts experiments while talking on the phone to her parents, attending games at Yankee Stadium, and watching episodes of The Office in her Bronx apartment. Even in the dead of night.
When she's not trying to cure cancer, she's busy cracking other monumental problems: AIDS.
- 4/26/2010
- by Chuck Salter
- Fast Company
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