Quantum News Briefs May 30: IQM Quantum Computers expands to Poland & inks MoU with Gdańsk University of Technology • QAIVentures announces second set of quantum startups for Accelerator program • Cleveland Clinic and IBM researchers apply quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction

Press release summaries below:

IQM Quantum Computers expands to Poland and inks MoU with Gdańsk University of Technology

IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a global leader in building quantum computers, is expanding its global operations into Warsaw, Poland, according to company news release May 29. This marks the company’s seventh global office, joining offices in the US, APAC, and four top European quantum countries, with talents from 47 nationalities.

As part of the expansion, IQM has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Gdańsk University of Technology, a leading technical university in Poland, to develop cutting-edge quantum applications, focusing on transformative fields such as personalized medicine.

Poland is one of Europe’s most developed tech hubs, has a growing talent pool in software, physics, engineering, and the government is committing to actively pursuing the development of deep tech and AI. The country is also part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

IQM a Gold Sponsor at IQT Vancouver/Pacific Rim June 4-6

IQM a Diamond Day Sponsor at IQT Nordics

QAIVentures announces second set of quantum startups for Accelerator program

QAIVentures announced on May 28 the selection of the second cohort of startups for the QAI Ventures Accelerator program. These visionary startups from Europe and North America are set to drive significant advancements in quantum computing, sensing, and communications.Those cohorts are:

• Commutator Studios (Germany) – Developer tools to boost quantum application performance. https://commutatorstudios.com

• Munich Quantum Instruments (Germany) – Scalable photonic quantum sensors for groundbreaking discoveries. https://munich-quantum-instruments.com

• QCentroid (Spain) – QuantumOps platform revolutionizing enterprise computational solutions. http://qcentroid.xyz

• QPerfect (France) – Advanced quantum operating system for high-performance quantum computing. https://qperfect.io

• Quantized Technology (Canada) – Next-gen quantum data encryption for unprecedented security. https://quantizedtech.com

• Scenario X (Switzerland) – AI-powered platform for economic forecasting and risk modeling. https://scenario-x.ai

• ZuriQ (Switzerland) – Scalable quantum computer hardware based on trapped ions. http://www.zuriq.com

Cleveland Clinic and IBM researchers apply quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and IBM recently published findings in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that could lay the groundwork for applying quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction, according to a May 29 news release by Cleveland Clinic

By accurately predicting the structure of a protein, researchers can better understand how diseases spread and thus how to develop effective therapies. Cleveland Clinic postdoctoral fellow Bryan Raubenolt, Ph.D., and IBM researcher Hakan Doga, Ph.D., spearheaded a team to discover how quantum computing can improve current methods.

The research team applied a mix of quantum and classical computing methods. This framework could allow quantum algorithms to address the areas that are challenging for state-of-the-art classical computing, including protein size, intrinsic disorder, mutations and the physics involved in proteins folding. The quantum-classical hybrid framework’s initial results outperformed both a classical physics-based method and AlphaFold2T.