QC Ware, a leading quantum software and services company, announced the results of a joint research project with one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. The project uncovered new discoveries in medical imaging analysis and diagnostics, leveraging quantum computing to better detect the presence and type of diabetic retinopathy. The research showed that novel simulated quantum computing machine learning algorithms in some cases outperformed classical computing in analyzing open source retinal medical images. This announcement highlights the potential of quantum computing to dramatically optimize data science in medicine.