BIONUMERIK $6 MIL. DRUG DESIGN CRADA WITH LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB
Executive Summary
BIONUMERIK $6 MIL. DRUG DESIGN CRADA WITH LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB will focus on developing faster pharmaceutical discovery software able to run on high-performance parallel computer systems for the design of cancer and cardiovascular drugs. At a June 15 Capitol Hill press conference held by Sen. Boxer (D-Calif.), and Everet Beckner, PhD, principal deputy assistant secretary for defense programs for the Department of Energy, which runs Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory, said DoE would provide $3 mil. over three years toward the research, with San Antonio-based BioNumerik contributing the remaining $3 mil.