 Whatever we do, there is always a human being at the center of it. Someone who could benefit from our work. I am Nilkan Patel and I am a computational biochemist at USC. Addiction to opioids is a major issue in the United States. Our goal is to develop drugs that can relieve pain without the high risk of addiction. Developing new drugs can take as long as a decade and cost billions of dollars. We start with a library of over half a billion virtual compounds. Navigating this vast ocean of compounds is challenging. But we are always thinking of that person waiting at the end of our journey. How can we get to them sooner? Working with Google Cloud, we have managed to narrow down 680 million compounds to the 120 most promising ones. Doing this job with our lab computers would have taken a year. Instead, we did it in just 24 hours. Meaning, we are that much closer to alternative medications. And that much closer to helping those who might need them.