Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, and IBM Team Finalists for Gordon Bell Prize for Quantum-Classical Simulation of 12,635-Atom Protein

A multidisciplinary team from Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, and IBM has been named a finalist for the 2026 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. They achieved a breakthrough by simulating the largest biologically meaningful molecules—a 12,635-atom protein—ever modeled with quantum computers, utilizing a quantum-centric supercomputing framework. This advance expands the potential of quantum and classical computing in life sciences research.