We Announced the $48.3M Federal Partnership at the White House!
It was incredibly special for me to speak at the White House on Wednesday about our funding from the federal government and what it will mean for patients like me.
While on stage, I couldn’t help but think back to 14 years ago when I was fighting for my life in the ICU. I never could have imagined that one day I would be able to turn those horrible moments into a mission with the potential to help millions of patients all over the world.
The Wall Street Journal Profiled Our Repurposing Work to Help Patients like Kaila
Amy Marcus of the Wall Street Journal profiled Every Cure, the drug repurposing landscape, and patients like Kaila whose life was saved thanks to repurposed drugs that we uncovered! Click here to read the full article.
We are building an AI platform that aims to identify treatments for millions of patients
Every Cure is scaling the approach I used to discover my own cure to unlock additional life-saving uses for every drug. We are using the federal funding to leverage novel AI techniques to analyze the world’s biomedical knowledge and identify 100 potential treatment opportunities in the next five years and advance 25 into further research, including clinical trials. Promising early leads include arginine for sickle cell disease, folinic acid for autism spectrum disorder, and bosutinib for ALS.
Repurposing existing drugs to treat COVID19 provides our best opportunity to save lives ASAP. As I like to say, we’ve got to teach old dogs new tricks! I know the power of drug repurposing: I’m alive today thanks to a repurposed drug. Given the overlap between COVID19 and Castleman disease, I’ve suspected that treatments used…
Our family grew! We welcomed our second little one into the world On November 5, 2021, we welcomed baby David into the world. He is the sweetest little brother to Amelia. It feels like such a dream to have this incredible family when I think back to when I was on my deathbed 13 years…
You’ve probably seen the term “cytokine storm” in the news a lot recently. That’s because COVID19 is able to unleash a cytokine storm in the most sick cases. As someone who has survived 5 deadly COVID19-like cytokine storms due to idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease and who studies cytokine storms in my lab, I thought I’d…
As I’ve shared before, repurposing existing drugs to treat COVID19 (and every other disease) is our best opportunity to save lives as quickly as possible. One drug that is being repurposed and has gotten a lot of attention is tocilizumab (Actemra). As I shared in #ChasingMyCure (excerpt below), it was originally developed by my friend…
