Coming for Cancer With Quantum Power
An excerpt from my diary.
This is my next mission, the thing I’m building toward, not just funding research or writing cheques but actually building the infrastructure, the partnerships, and the quantum-accelerated pipelines that will make cancer was.
Cancer took too much from me already. I’m not waiting for it to take more.
My next big mission is to make cancer was. The way smallpox was a global killer. The way polio was a childhood terror. Cancer will be something our grandchildren read about in history books, not something they watch destroy their families.
“Cancer was a terrible disease” –> makes a great PR-FAQ.
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Cancer killed my grandmother. It killed my mum. My sister fought it and won, but she lost a part of herself in the process. Thank God she’d finished having kids by then.
This is personal. I have two daughters. Cancer came for three generations of women in my family. My daughters won’t be next.
So I’m coming for it first, with everything I’ve got.
You don’t feel the pain and urgency until it happens to you. It kills slow. It leaves flashbacks that wake you up in the middle of the night with tears running down your cheeks.
I believe the current paradigms around cancer research, diagnostics, and treatment are too politicized and too incremental. If you think otherwise, I respect it, but you don’t feel the urgency if you’re not in the hit. The world needs urgency, boldness, and radical clarity. And that urgency has to be channeled through advanced technology, especially the rising frontier of quantum computing.
Quantum computing offers a chance to reimagine what’s possible: simulating molecular and cellular dynamics at speeds and scales we’ve never had before; detecting cancer earlier; designing smarter therapies; personalizing treatments in ways old systems can’t approach. Researchers have already used quantum-classical models to design molecules targeting proteins once considered “undruggable.”[1] Quantum computers have solved problems in minutes that would take classical supercomputers thousands of years.[2]
The infrastructure is emerging. Research institutions and technology companies around the world are proving what can be done. But we need more. We need speed. We need people who won’t settle for incremental progress while people die waiting.
I’m coming for it. I believe we can use technology to make cancer was. This is my life’s mission. The results may come long after I’m gone, but I have to fight.
If you’ve got tips, or want to join me in forming an interest group, let’s connect.
References
[1] Aspuru-Guzik, A. et al. (2025). “AI and quantum computing used to target ‘undruggable’ cancer protein.” University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science. https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/ai-and-quantum-computing-used-target-undruggable-cancer-protein
[2] “Quantum Computing Cancer Research: Transforming Healthcare.” (2024). Infiniti Research. https://www.infinitiresearch.com/thoughts/quantum-computing-in-cancer-research-a-new-era-of-drug-discovery-and-treatment/
