DreamLab app lets you fight Covid-19 using your smartphone

For those who want to get involved the steps are few and easy. Step one, download the DreamLab app. Step two, activate the app before falling asleep. There is no step three. 

Vodafone Foundation and Imperial College London are hoping that as many people as possible will connect so that millions of calculations can be processed to push the research regarding the infectious virus forward.

Dr Kirill Veselkov from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London, who is leading the research, says: “We urgently need new treatments to tackle Covid-19. There are existing drugs out there that might work to treat it; and the great thing about repurposing existing drugs is that we already know they are safe and therefore could get them to patients quickly. However, we have to do difficult and complicated analyses using artificial intelligence and all of this takes a huge amount of computing power. DreamLab creates a supercomputer that enables us to do this important work in a relatively short timeframe.”