DreamLab - Powering Research Software

What is DreamLab?

DreamLab is a mobile app developed by the Vodafone Foundation in partnership with Imperial College London. The app uses the collective power of mobile phones to fast track Covid-19 and cancer research. DreamLab harnesses the processing power of mobile devices to examine health data and find more effective combinations of drugs that can be tailored to patients to improve treatments and save lives. The app is free to download and use, and users can choose which project to support and how much mobile data the app uses every month.

***Temporarily, this app is being used to support research to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19.*** Imagine if you could really make a difference and help to speed up time in the fight against Covid-19 and cancer.

this app is a multi-award winning app from the Vodafone Foundation, in partnership with Imperial College London, which uses the collective power of mobile phones to fast track Covid-19 and cancer research. this app exists to help find answers quicker and the more people who use this app, the faster it works.

 Medical research currently generates huge volumes of health data around the world every day, but access to computing power to crunch and make sense of this data is limited. Your mobile device contains a huge amount of computing power needed to run everything from email to music and video streaming apps, but is mostly dormant while you plug it in to charge overnight. this app harnesses this processing power, of yours and thousands of other mobile phones, to examine such health data to look specifically at how existing drugs can be repurposed to help in the fight against cancer.

 this app taps into this invaluable resource to find more effective combinations of drugs that can be tailored to patients to improve treatments and save lives. As a Dreamer you can even choose which project to support and also select how much mobile data the app uses every month (or only on WiFi). Just one PC running 24 hours a day would need 300 years to process the data required to complete the project. However, 100,000 smartphones running this app for six hours a night could fast track the job in just three months.

 Download the this app app today and start making a difference to lives in the fight against cancer.

 Charge
 Download the this app app, choose a project to support and each time your phone is plugged in, charged and connected to the internet, you’ll be helping to save lives in the fight against Covid-19 and cancer.

 Sleep
 Charge your phone overnight and while you #SleepLikeAHero, this app taps into its unused processing power to support vital cancer research.

 Fight Covid-19 and Cancer Alongside thousands of other this app users, while you sleep you’ll be using your phone to power a virtual supercomputer, capable of processing billions of calculations – and helping fast track research into better ways to fight Covid-19 and cancer.

 When you plug your phone in and power this app, it downloads tiny parts of a huge research project from the cloud to calculate and sends the results back to the team at Imperial College London. The more people who power this app, the faster we can find the right drugs and treatments to beat cancer. All you need to do is set up this app once and it will get to work each time you plug your phone in.

 To help the fight against Covid-19 and cancer, and find the drugs and treatments needed to fight them, simply download the app (#) and choose which Project you’d like to support. You can also track the contribution you’ve made and keep up to date with news.

 this app supports cancer research globally and is powered by the Vodafone Foundation.

 https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/this app

 * A compatible handset is required. Downloading this app will consume mobile data. Once downloaded, this app can be used when your device (i) is connected to a charging source and (ii) has mobile network or WiFi connectivity. 

 # By downloading, installing or otherwise using the this app application on your device, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions found at https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/this app If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, you should not download, install or otherwise use this app Application.