He Cured His Own Disease; Reader’s Digest, May 2020

With doctors and researchers around the world searching for effective treatments for COVID-19, many drugs approved to treat other diseases are being used in hopes that they’ll be effective against the virus, a use that’s known as “off-label.” A volunteer army that Dr. David Fajgenbaum assembled has catalogued every use documented in medical literature so…

Inspired by my journey discovering a drug that could be repurposed to save my life, I co-founded Every Cure in September 2022 to unlock the full potential of existing medicines to treat every disease and every patient possible. I had the opportunity to announce Every Cure’s launch during the Opening Session of the Clinton Global…

I’m thrilled to share that my paper on Cytokine Storms with Carl June, MD, was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine! A “cytokine storm” is an immune response that spirals out of control and occurs with Castleman disease, CART, severe COVID19, and other conditions. We developed the first unifying definition of a…

I’m so proud of my team at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Study & Treatment of Lymphadenopathies & Cytokine Storms. Today, five years worth of research into mechanisms involved in the idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) cytokine storm, which has major implications for other cytokine storms like COVID19, were published in two high-impact journals….

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…

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HFHfTd9-Y8[/embedyt] Check out the above video about our COVID19 drug repurposing work or go to: https://youtu.be/0HFHfTd9-Y8 Thank you to Jimmy Baggott for making this amazing video! #ThinkItDoIt #FromHopeToAction #ChasingMyCure #ChasingCOVIDsCure   David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, Chasing My Cure: A…