IBM Enlists World Community Grid to Combat Tuberculosis

IBM’s World Community Grid has launched the “Help Stop TB” project, an effort to stamp out tuberculosis, led by the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

The aim of the project is to help science better understand the TB bacterium, so that more effective treatments can be developed. Tuberculosis is caused by infection from a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb).

Started in 2004, World Community Grid is a philanthropic initiative of IBM Corporate Citizenship, the corporate social responsibility and philanthropy division of IBM.