A lighthouse for discovery. Quantum capacity that helps Florida’s researchers find their way to new medicines.
Molecules obey quantum mechanics. That puts medicine among the first fields quantum computing will change. Florida has the clinicians and research centers to lead the way. We place quantum systems right beside them.
Life Sciences
The value pool
Value quantum computing could add to pharmaceuticals and medical products, up to 12 percent of the industry’s projected sales. McKinsey & Company, 2026.
The reference model
Cleveland Clinic put clinicians, algorithm developers and hardware engineers in one building. Five years in: more than 50 joint projects and the largest protein simulated on quantum hardware.
Optimization pays first
Hybrid quantum-classical planning at Pfizer’s Freiburg plant cut makespan by two thirds against its baseline, with no deadline violations. 2025.
Chemistry pays most
A quantum-accelerated workflow simulated a key small-molecule reaction step for AstraZeneca more than 20 times faster than prior benchmarks. 2025.
The Network
Systems, corridors and centers placed where Florida already has strength, linked by quantum-secure fiber.
First phase under wayPalm Beach → Miami-Dade
Nearly 100 miles of quantum-key-secured fiber over Florida LambdaRail, connecting three institutions. It is the first phase of a statewide fabric for research and clinical data.
Deploying 2027Boca Raton
A $20M quantum computer at Florida Atlantic University, the first hosted by a Florida university, deploying next year. An annealer, built for the scheduling and routing problems that pay first.
Deploying 2027Miami
Miami’s first quantum computer, a full-stack gate-model system at Florida International University. Research spans drug development, materials and energy, and national security.
In progressWest Palm Beach
A $7M workforce and training center at Palm Beach State College, building the technicians and translators the industry says it cannot find.
PlannedJupiter
The center itself: quantum compute and incubator space for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Exploring space in Jupiter now.
Why Florida
Florida ranks first for the economic impact of clinical trials and second for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. More than half of its universities’ research spending is in the life sciences, yet no public program connects its health systems to quantum hardware.
Learn more
“Most of what slows a new medicine is waiting for an answer. Quantum computers will shorten the wait, and the first patients to benefit will live near the places that started early.”
The Center
A planned commercialization center in Jupiter for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Compute
Hybrid simulation and optimization workloads run in the building, not in a cloud queue.
Incubator
Lab and office space for startups and corporate teams turning quantum methods into products.
Engagements
Work starts from a bottleneck a company owns: a reaction step, a production plan, a toxicity screen.
Neighbors
Near the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, Max Planck Florida and the FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute.
Missions
Medicine leads, because Florida’s clinical base is large enough to set real problems. Defense and logistics run on the same machines.
Drug discovery. Binding energies, metal centers and the reaction steps classical chemistry approximates badly.
Clinical operations. Trial sites, operating rooms and patient flow, scheduled at the scale of Florida’s health systems.
Manufacturing and cold chain. Production planning and cold-chain routing for drug and device makers and 16 deepwater seaports.
National security. Post-quantum cryptography, sensing and secure communications for three combatant commands.
Briefing · September 2026
Ten pages on the value pool, the published results, the Cleveland Clinic model and where Florida stands. Most of the life-sciences figures on this site come from it.
Download the brief
