Read this link from the Rosetta Site written by it seems David Baker, Ph.D.
Director, Rosetta@home

To get to link you could click on Rosetta website "about"

then click on

"Disease Related Research"

or follow the link directly below

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_medical_relevance.php

Is says after a long list of diseases (see below)

Malaria:
Anthrax:
HIV:
Other viruses
Alzheimer's disease:
Cancer:
Prostate Cancer:

" The above projects are NOT currently running on BOINC because we don't yet have an efficient queuing system which lets people submit jobs easily, but look for them soon! "


So my problem being why in the hell not and what diseases are we actually supporting research on ?

I was always of the belief that the number crunching was primarly for research on the above diseases