Johns Hopkins lands up to $52M from ARPA-H to build AI that decodes protein misfolding
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-10-28
A Johns Hopkins-led team backed by up to $52M from ARPA-H will build an AI model to decode how proteins misfold in Parkinson's, cancer and other diseases, aiming to predict harmful conformations and design drugs that target only the harmful form.
The poster argues a contrarian take: today's AI is purely classical computation while biology involves quantum as well as classical computation, so AI as it works today cannot truly understand biology.
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