In the years to come, quantum computing will find applications in different industries - from IT and finance to transportation. Within the medical industry, quantum technology has the potential to reduce the time it takes to develop new drugs as well as speed up the computationally demanding tasks of analysing and interpreting large amounts of biological data. The new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center Quantum for Life based at the University of Copenhagen has taken up this challenge. But new quantum hardware alone will not get us there. It will require the development of an entirely new type of software – quantum software.