That's the goal of Graham Richards, chairman of the chemistry department at Oxford University and director of the National Foundation for Cancer Research Center for Computational Drug Design, a virtual collaboration set up last August with a $750,000 NFCR grant.
Richards recently got some help from a computer program called THINK, developed by United Devices of Austin, Texas, and from another company that knows a little about computers: Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif. In early April, the chipmaker launched the Intel® Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program in a special news briefing at company headquarters. Joining Intel president and CEO Craig Barrett on the podium were Richards; Sujuan Ba, science director for the NFCR; Ed Hubbard, CEO of United Devices; and John Seffrin, president of the American Cancer Society.
 THINK at work |
Through this effort, all of those involved hope that eventually millions of computer users will each perform their own form ...
