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For over 20 years, Folding@home has relied almost exclusively on government agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) for financial support. We’ve also been fortunate to collaborate across academia and with various industry collaborators (perhaps the most famous example being our collaboration with Sony around the PS3). Now, the combination of the pandemic and scientific advances presents a broad array of new opportunities to increase Folding@home’s impact on science and human health. First and foremost, it is increasingly clear that the technology that the Folding@home community has helped develop (in concert with the broader scientific community) is ripe for translational applications that improve global health. Our work has helped repurpose a flu drug for use against other threatening viruses, and a clinical trial was just about to...

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