New Life for Old Drugs with Dr. David Fajgenbaum
When David Fajgenbaum nearly died of Castleman disease for the fifth time, he decided to take fate into his own hands. Using his medical training, he searched for an existing drug that might save his life—and found one. Now his organization, Every Cure, is scaling the same approach to uncover hidden treatments for other diseases with no known cure.
David and Claudia discussed:
How Every Cure is using AI to test 75 million possible disease-drug combinations
The perverse incentives that keep generic drug repurposing in the shadows
Why the hardest part of innovation isn’t discovery, it’s getting…
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