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

[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…

As I was driving down to North Carolina to visit my family at the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic, I found myself hoping and praying that COVID-19 would not have the kind of impact that was being projected. This wasn’t the first time I hoped and prayed for something that felt so out of…

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….

Reflecting on 10 Years in Overtime – Time I Never Thought I’d Have At Every Cure, we are utilizing artificial intelligence to identify the most promising new uses for existing drugs across all 3,000 drugs and 20,000 diseases and we need your help to make the biggest impact possible! Whether it’s forwarding this email to a friend or…

I am beyond honored to be named the 2023 Philadelphia Citizen of the Year by The Philadelphia Citizen. This recognition is a testament to our amazing team’s work and the support that so many of you have shared with us! It has been the honor of a lifetime to work with our amazing teams at…

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…