SEEQC UK
Company · London
UK arm of SEEQC, maker of superconducting digital control chips for qubits, which led the QuPharma drug-discovery quantum computing project.
Completed Consortium
QuPharma: Quantum Enhanced Computing Platform for Pharmaceutical R&D
A SEEQC-led consortium linking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer to model drug properties.
Project data last updated 11 October 2026
About this project
QuPharma ran from March 2022 to March 2025. Merck was the end user. STFC's Hartree Centre, its Scientific Computing Department and the National Quantum Computing Centre took part.
The stated aim was to speed up parts of drug development by a factor of ten. The first focus was simulation tools for photodynamic cancer therapies.
Lead organisation
Partners (6)
Medicines Discovery Catapult
Research organisation · Alderley Park
Merck
Company · Darmstadt
Oxford Instruments
Company · High Wycombe
Riverlane
Company · Cambridge
Science and Technology Facilities Council
National lab · Swindon
University of Oxford
University · Oxford
Funders
Innovate UK
Funder · Swindon
UK Research and Innovation
Funder · Swindon
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