DreamLab

What is DreamLab?

The DreamLab app, a collaborative effort from the Vodafone Foundation and Imperial College London, harnesses the collective computing power of mobile devices to accelerate cancer research. By leveraging the dormant processing capabilities of smartphones while they charge overnight, DreamLab enables users to contribute to vital medical research that aims to uncover new treatment possibilities and improve patient outcomes

Highlights

• Crowdsourced cancer research: The app distributes complex cancer-related data across thousands of participating mobile devices to analyze and process this information more efficiently than a single computer could
• Customizable research focus: Users can choose to support research into specific cancer types, including breast, ovarian, prostate, and pancreatic
• Adjustable data usage: The app allows users to control the monthly mobile data consumed by the research tasks, ensuring a seamless integration with their personal data plan
• Accelerated discovery: By tapping into the combined computing power of many smartphones, DreamLab can complete research projects in a matter of months that would have taken a single computer decades to process.