TLDR: Researchers proved viability of quantum computers for non-trivial research questions in their field (protein research).
While working with simplified models and thus being still years away from the complexity of problems solved right now with classical supercomputers, results are promising. Instead of running Monte-Carlo simulations and achieving about 80% accuracy (for even small amino acid chains), it's easy to achieve 100% with the quantum annealer. Still two to three generations of quantum computers expected to be needed for most research problems like drug research.