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Physician-Scientist @ UPenn | National Bestselling Author, Chasing My Cure | Co-Founder @ Every Cure & CDCN
At 25 years old, my doctors didn’t think I was going to survive. They had run out of options for treating my rare and deadly disease. A priest even read me my last rites as my family said their final goodbyes. I somehow survived, thanks to a regimen of seven different chemotherapies, but I knew I would relapse again if I didn’t treat the underlying cause of my disease. I started running experiments on my cells and found that a communication line called mTOR was turned into overdrive. The best part was that there was already a drug made for a different disease that inhibited mTOR. I began taking that drug and have now been in remission for over 10 years! It begs the question: What other diseases could we find cures for if we maximized the uses of existing drugs? That’s why I co-founded @EveryCure, a non-profit that utilizes artificial intelligence to unlock the full potential of existing drugs! Go to EveryCure.org to join us on this mission! #medicine #raredisease #doctor
David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc David thank you for sharing your incredable story and for the amazing mission and work you and your team are driving within Every Cure
CEO | Best-Selling Author | Speaker | Researcher--Empowering Happiness, Productivity, The Brain 🧠 Matrix, Resilience
2moDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc Thanks for sharing your incredible journey. Repurposed drugs have tremendous potential. Among the many initiatives, my team and I are assessing a number of disease states —pathogeneses of which current therapeutics work only partially or are not sustainable. Keep up the great work. Keep up the “good fight”… Brain Matrix Alliance