It has been a little over a year since researchers at the University of Saskatchewan gained access to one of the world’s most powerful machines, the quantum computer .

Now, the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) team is partnering up with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), along with several other researchers, to help speed up vaccine development.

“A lot of places in the world are working on just getting quantum computers up and running and saying at some point we will be able to do something good with it… we’re not waiting,” said the USask director for the quanTA centre, Steven Rayan.

The researchers will identify pathogens of concern and use the quantum computer to make a digital twin of the virus or bacteria. Then, they will use the c

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