The Cancer Game Team @ Folding@Home

Use your computer's spare time to help research the cure to diseases.

As many of you may know, I battled Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer, when I was a teenager. I had extensive chemotherapy, some radiation therapy, and a bone marrow transplant to help cure me of the disease. I am now cancer-free over eleven years.

I grew up playing computer games, it was always a passion for me. While I was in college, I co-developed The Cancer Game, a fun, short video game intended to help cancer patients visualize their bodies destroying cancer. It was a very successful project, it helped me grow academically and was one of my main dreams in life: to create a video game.

Computers have just got faster and faster over the years. Often times, we just use them for simple tasks, like checking e-mail, messaging friends, surfing the web, typing documents. Rarely do these tasks use up our full computer's speed, yet we have our computer own, spending maybe 10% of its "brain" doing our tasks. What if we could use the other 90% of its "brain" to help find the cure to more cancers and other serious diseases that plague humanity, affecting us personally and affecting our family and friends? What if running a screensaver brought a cure just one day closer?

Obviously, the details are much more complicated than this. But the concept is perfect: Our computers often have extra processing power than we use, and we can "donate" that time to a project that is used to speed along scientific research. You don't need to be a scientist or a doctor to participate, just download an application called Folding@Home from Stanford onto your computer. Installing this package will allow your computer to use its spare time to speed up research for the cure for many diseases.

Click Here to Learn How to Install Folding@Home. Thank you!

In celebrating the spirit of The Cancer Game, I have launched an official team to keep track of people who are joining the Folding@Home project through this page. When you install the software, enter team: 171873.

You can check our team stats with this link, and also check out some of the other top successful teams!

Main Project Page: Folding@Home

Wikipedia Entry on Folding@Home: wiki/Folding@Home

cancergame.org team number: 171873

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