NVIDIA Foundation Awards $400,000 to Two Trailblazers in Cancer Research

[HardOCP News]

Hand-to-hand combat with cancer. That describes how two research teams are approaching their fight, using accelerated computing to battle the disease at the most basic levels of human biology. Each group will receive $200,000 from the NVIDIA Foundation, our employee-led philanthropic arm, to further research that could lead to new and more targeted treatments. The two grants are part of the NVIDIA Foundation’s Compute the Cure effort, which supports projects that use parallel computing technology to yield breakthroughs in cancer treatment and diagnostics. A group of NVIDIA employees, with the support of researchers at the National Cancer Institute, chose the recipients from among nearly 20 proposals submitted from around the world.

 

[Great Tiger]

Am I the only one that can't make sense of a 200k grant for research?

 

[Chimpee]

Am I the only one that can't make sense of a 200k grant for research?

Too low of an amount or too high of an amount?

 

[DeathFromBelow]

The human genome project cost roughly $3 billion dollars spread over 15 years.