-IBM Social Contribution Program-
Help Fight Childhood Cancer (HFCC) Project

Japanese

Project members:

Akira NAKAGAWARA
(Director, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute)

Tyuji HOSHINO
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University)

Yutaka TAMURA
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University)

Project outline:

This project is drawn up for research and development of new therapeutic drugs specified to neuroblastoma ‐TrkB, ALK, and SCxx are specifically planed for as targeted  molecules‐using the computer imaging processes. Neuroblastoma is one of refractory diseases in childhood cancer and the need for the improvement of survival rate has been loudly called.

IBM, the world's largest computer company, has a mission called "World Community Grid" as a contribution toward human society and this project will be supported by this mission. As IBM says that the success of this project depends on individuals‐ like you‐collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor, you can donate the power of your computer to researchers through the enormous virtual computer while you are asleep.

About 10 projects including Extermination of AIDS and Dengue Fever, Hunger Relief, Cancer Diagnosis and Measures for Global Warming have been going with this mission. This year, the Drug Discovery Project for Childhood Cancer‐Joint Research between Chiba Cancer Center and Chiba University‐is involved for the first time in Japan.

More about the Help Fight Childhood Cancer 'HFCC' project (the latest status updates)
World Community Grid 'Help Fight Childhood Cancer' (IBM)

Keywords:

HFCC, World Community Grid, Childhood cancers, Neuroblastoma, Imaging, Drug discovery, AutoDock, IBM social contribution