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.
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….
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…
When fighting a war, information really matters. You need to know what weapons have been tried and which ones have been most (and least) effective. This information helps soldiers to adjust their strategy. The same holds true when fighting a global war against a disease like COVID19 (or Castleman disease or any disease!). We need…
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 decided to write Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race To Turn Hope Into Action, because I learned so much about life, hope, and resilience from nearly dying five times and fighting back to find a treatment that is saving my life. I knew these lessons were applicable beyond those battling disease and felt compelled…
