The NQCC has funded a Highlight Call on Quantum Computing through its User Engagement Programme, SparQ. The call is aimed at stimulating industry engagement and interactions with the NQCC. As part of this Quantum Highlight, we are pleased to announce the following successful projects:
Project 1:
| Lead organisation | Consortia | Sector | Project title |
| Applied Quantum Computing Ltd (AQC) | AQC, The Public Service Consultants Limited, NQCC, Digital Analytics and Research Team – Innovation Transformation Directorate, NHS England | Operational Healthcare | Investigating the application of near-term quantum computing techniques to addressing operational healthcare use cases important to NHS health and care provision |
Project 2:
| Lead organisation | Consortia | Sector | Project title |
| Capgemini UK Plc | Capgemini UK Plc, GSK | Pharma | Data-driven warhead reactivity prediction using computed quantum features for drug discovery |
Project 3:
| Lead organisation | Consortia | Sector | Project title |
| The ANSWERS Software Service, part of Energy, Safety and Risk Consultants (UK) Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of Jacobs U.K. Ltd | The ANSWERS Software Service, National Nuclear Laboratory, Sellafield Ltd, University of Cambridge, National Quantum Computing Centre | Nuclear | Quantum Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulation |
Project 4:
| Lead organisation | Consortia | Sector | Project title |
| Zaiku Group Ltd | Zaiku Group Ltd, North East Yorkshire Genomics Lab Hub | Healthcare | Federated Quantum Machine Learning for Genomics Data |
In addition to the above projects, we would also like to congratulate the following project leads and their partners, who were awarded under the #CCPOC funded by the STFC Business and Innovation:
- 3Dmagination partnering with St Luke’s Radiology Oxford, CHUV | Lausanne university hospital, Borwell
- Addie App partnering with the Innovation Agency – part of the AHSN Network and ORCHA
- Agile Life Sciences partnering with the Innovation Agency – part of the AHSN Network
- Glow New Media partnering with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Innovation Agency – part of the AHSN Network
- Gravitilab Aerospace Services partnering with The University of Manchester
- Ionech Limited partnering with Mallatite Limited
- MedPredict partnering with Flint Studios Ltd, Innovation Agency – part of the AHSN Network, Atos
- Omanos Analytics partnering with EOLAS Insight Ltd, Satellite Applications Catapult
- Trade in Space partnering with Environment Systems
- IoT Horizon Ltd partnering with the Campus Technology Hub STFC, EnOcean and STFC Hartree Centre / IBM UK Research
- Stress-Space partnering with ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
- Kayser Space Ltd partnering with CELLULAR AGRICULTURE LT