DreamLab Status

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.  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.  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.  To help the fight against Covid-19 and cancer, and find the drugs and treatments needed to fight them, simply download DreamLab (#) and choose which Project you’d like to support.  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.  Charge your phone overnight and while you #SleepLikeAHero, this app taps into its unused processing power to support vital cancer research.  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.  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. * A compatible handset is required.  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.  As a Dreamer you can even choose which project to support and also select how much mobile data DreamLab uses every month (or only on WiFi).  The more people who power this app, the faster we can find the right drugs and treatments to beat cancer.  Download the this app app today and start making a difference to lives in the fight against cancer.  Just one PC running 24 hours a day would need 300 years to process the data required to complete the project.  ***Temporarily, this app is being used to support research to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19.  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.  All you need to do is set up this app once and it will get to work each time you plug your phone in.