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When Pratyush Tiwary arrived at the University of Maryland in 2017, he hit the ground running.

The nation’s leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease, is often referred to as the “silent killer” because detecting symptoms early is so difficult. Current testing methods are time-consuming, expensive and inaccessible, especially for low-income and other disadvantaged patients.

The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)—a research powerhouse focused on quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum cryptography—recently received a renewal of federal funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).