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The mindbodygreen PodcastHow surviving death 5x led him to reinvent drug discovery | David Fajgenbaum, M.D.“There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of drug repurposing opportunities just waiting to be uncovered,” explains David Fajgenbaum, M.D.
David Fajgenbaum, M.D., physician-scientist, bestselling author of Chasing My Cure, co-founder of Every Cure, and leader in the global push for drug repurposing, joins us today to explain why the cures of tomorrow may already be on pharmacy shelves today—and how his team is racing to uncover them.
- From college athlete to ICU (~3:15)
- Finding a cure (~7:20)
- Hope needs to drive action (~9:45)
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2025-12-2151 min
from Dreamers to DisruptorsHow Drug Repurposing Unlocks New Uses for Existing Medicines: Every Cure’s David FajgenbaumDavid Fajgenbaum’s relationship to drug repurposing is personal, professional, and one of the most inspiring stories in modern medicine. Diagnosed with Castleman disease and running out of treatment options, David used his research skills to identify an existing drug that saved his life.Join David and Medidata CEO Anthony Costello to explore the origins of Every Cure—and how David’s experience became the seed for a nonprofit that uncovers life-changing uses for treatments already approved for other conditions. Discover Every Cure’s innovative approaches to data, the scope of unmet needs across healthcare, and how pharmace...
2025-12-1548 min
Off the RakTurning Personal Crisis into a Drive for a Cure with Dr. David FajgenbaumHow do you make the journey from being given last rites in a hospital bed to founding an organization that has saved thousands of lives through medical innovation? Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a physician-scientist, Castleman disease survivor, and the co-founder of Every Cure. From medical student to patient to leader, David shares how he turned personal health challenges into a driving force for innovative research, drug repurposing, and AI-driven discovery to help rare-disease patients. Tune in to explore what resilient leadership looks like and what future breakthroughs he’s hopeful to see on his purpose-driven mission to cu...
2025-12-0227 min
AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)Repurposed Miracles: David Fajgenbaum on Saving Lives — Armchair ExpertWhen a doctor becomes a patient, curiosity can rewrite treatment possibilities. This condensed version distills a 2-hour Armchair Expert conversation into 6 minutes, with hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman interviewing physician-scientist David Fajgenbaum about using existing drugs to treat rare, life-threatening conditions. Learn how Fajgenbaum’s own battle led to identifying mTOR hyperactivity and treating it with sirolimus, the three-step blueprint for drug repurposing (read the literature, unite experts, validate with patient samples), and how Every Cure uses AI and a biomedical knowledge graph to prioritize promising drug-disease matches. Key takeaways include practical examples (POEMS, angiosarcoma, cerebral folate deficiency), the ro...
2025-11-2606 min
Armchair Expert with Dax ShepardDavid Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)David Fajgenbaum (Chasing My Cure, Every Cure) is an immunology researcher, professor, and author. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being recruited to play football at an assortment of Ivy League schools before ending up at Georgetown, the promise he made to his mother to pursue medicine before she passed away, and starting a foundation in his mom’s honor to help college students with grief. David and Dax talk about the sudden onset of symptoms that meant his liver and kidneys were shutting down, gaining 100 pounds of fluid almost overnight, and nearly dying multiple times amid a di...
2025-11-261h 33
The Other 80New Life for Old Drugs with Dr. David FajgenbaumWhen 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 shadowsWhy the hardest part of innovation isn’t discovery, it’s gettin...
2025-11-1936 min
Business Leadership SeriesRace for the Cure with Dr. David FajgenbaumListen to this powerful interview with Dr. David Fajgenbaum who has an incredible new memoir, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action". David’s story is truly unique; it’s a tale of learning to live, while dying: a universally relatable story about getting up and fighting back after life knocks you down.A former Georgetown quarterback nicknamed "The Beast," David Fajgenbaum was also a force in medical school, where he was known for his unmatched mental stamina. But things changed dramatically when he began suffering from inexplicable fatigue. In a matter of week...
2025-11-0925 min
Huberman LabsUsing Existing Drugs in New Ways to Treat & Cure Diseases of Brain & Body | Dr. David FajgenbaumMy guest is Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, professor of translational medicine and human genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. He explains how, unbeknownst to most doctors, many approved medications can successfully treat or even cure diseases other than the ones they are typically used to treat. He shares his story of escaping death from Castleman's disease by discovering a life-saving treatment using repurposed drugs that were approved for other purposes. Our conversation explores how researchers, physicians, and you—the general public—can explore novel treatments and cures to conditions the medical profession has deemed untreatable, including cancers. We also discuss the...
2025-11-031h 58
Huberman LabUsing Existing Drugs in New Ways to Treat & Cure Diseases of Brain & Body | Dr. David FajgenbaumMy guest is Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, professor of translational medicine and human genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. He explains how, unbeknownst to most doctors, many approved medications can successfully treat or even cure diseases other than the ones they are typically used to treat. He shares his story of escaping death from Castleman's disease by discovering a life-saving treatment using repurposed drugs that were approved for other purposes. Our conversation explores how researchers, physicians, and you—the general public—can explore novel treatments and cures to conditions the medical profession has deemed untreatable, including cancers. We also disc...
2025-11-031h 59
Huberman LabsUsing Existing Drugs in New Ways to Treat & Cure Diseases of Brain & Body | Dr. David FajgenbaumMy guest is Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, professor of translational medicine and human genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. He explains how, unbeknownst to most doctors, many approved medications can successfully treat or even cure diseases other than the ones they are typically used to treat. He shares his story of escaping death from Castleman's disease by discovering a life-saving treatment using repurposed drugs that were approved for other purposes. Our conversation explores how researchers, physicians, and you—the general public—can explore novel treatments and cures to conditions the medical profession has deemed untreatable, including cancers. We also discuss the...
2025-11-031h 58
The PulseHow David Fajgenbaum Found His Own Treatment & Launched Every CureWhat if treatments or even cures for devastating rare diseases already existed — and were just waiting to be discovered? On this podcast extra, we dive into the extraordinary journey of physician and researcher David Fajgenbaum, cofounder of Every Cure. After facing death five times due to a rare illness called Castleman Disease, Fajgenbaum not only discovered his own treatment, but also launched an ambitious project using AI to unlock existing drugs for countless other conditions. He has a new TED Talk and was recently featured in Time Magazine’s list of “The World’s Most Influential Rising Stars.” F...
2025-10-1420 min
PossibleDavid Fajgenbaum on drug repurposing, AI, and saving his own lifeHow can AI really help advance medicine? Should patients and care teams be seeking second opinions from LLMs? This week, Reid and Aria sit down with physician-scientist Dr. David Fajgenbaum, who repurposes existing drugs to save lives—including his own. David shares his journey from receiving last rites as a young medical student to co-founding Every Cure, a nonprofit using AI to come up with ways existing drugs can be repurposed to treat every disease and every patient possible. On this special episode, filmed live in New York City, David, Reid, and Aria explore the circuit of hope, action, an...
2025-10-081h 07
Game Changer by Empowerhouse CoachingEp.3 | LDS Shooting & Culture Reflections, Jessica Sanchez’s 20-Year Comeback, and Dr. David Fajgenbaum’s Tragedy to PurposeSend us a text📖 Episode 3 SummaryIn this episode of Game Changer by Empowerhouse Coaching, Amanda Escobedo unpacks three powerful stories that reveal how culture, leadership, and resilience show up in defining moments:The LDS Shooting – Leaders responded with statements that were measured and compassionate, choosing not to attack or assign blame. Yet the public quickly turned to online searches, seeking motives and someone to fault. This contrast highlights how deeply blame-seeking remains woven into our culture, even when leadership communication takes a more objective tone.Jessica Sanchez – After 2...
2025-10-031h 16
The Shawn Ryan Show#240 Dr. David Fajgenbaum - Can AI Find Cures to Rare Diseases Using Existing Medicine?Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a pioneering physician-scientist, tenured professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and national bestselling author who transformed his personal battle with the rare, deadly Castleman disease into a global mission to accelerate cures for humanity's 12,000 known diseases.
Diagnosed after losing his mother to cancer, Fajgenbaum endured five near-death experiences before using his medical training to identify sirolimus—a repurposed drug—as a life-saving treatment, achieving remission marking over a decade cancer-free as of 2025.
A Georgetown University graduate with advanced degrees from Oxford and Whar...
2025-09-291h 41
FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnisS14 E1 How AI is Unlocking the Cure for Thousands of Illnesses, with Dr. David FajgenbaumWhat if the cure for deadly diseases is already sitting on a pharmacy shelf? Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a physician, scientist, and co-founder of Every Cure, nearly died five times from Castleman disease before finding an existing drug that saved his life. Now in remission, he’s leading a global mission to unlock hidden uses for thousands of forgotten medicines with the help of AI. In this episode of FOMO Sapiens, David shares his incredible patient-to-scientist journey, the breakthroughs Every Cure is driving, and what it means to turn hope into action, whether in medicine, business, or life. ...
2025-09-1836 min
Murder in IllinoisA Special Re-Release: Case #17: Every Cure Pt.1 (Dr. David Fajgenbaum)We’re celebrating Dr. David Fajgenbaum and revisiting one of our most impactful stories. David was just named to the TIME100 Health list and has a powerful new TED Talk—milestones that reflect the empathy, curiosity, and determination at the heart of his work. Once a college quarterback and competitive weightlifter, David became critically ill at 25. When standard treatments failed to keep him out of the ICU, he and his friend Grant raced to save his life by repurposing existing drugs and laying the foundation for Every Cure. His journey shows what’s possible when we ask tough...
2025-09-0942 minSymptomatic: A Medical Mystery PodcastA Special Re-Release: Case #17: Every Cure Pt.1 (Dr. David Fajgenbaum)We’re celebrating Dr. David Fajgenbaum and revisiting one of our most impactful stories. David was just named to the TIME100 Health list and has a powerful new TED Talk—milestones that reflect the empathy, curiosity, and determination at the heart of his work. Once a college quarterback and competitive weightlifter, David became critically ill at 25. When standard treatments failed to keep him out of the ICU, he and his friend Grant raced to save his life by repurposing existing drugs and laying the foundation for Every Cure. His journey shows what’s possible when we ask tough...
2025-09-0942 min
The Checkup with Doctor MikeThe Doctor Who Cured His Own Disease | Dr. David FajgenbaumHead to http://www.cozyearth.com and use my code DOCTORMIKE for 40% off! And if you get aPost-Purchase Survey, make sure to let them know you heard about CozyEarth right here!Huge thanks to Dr. David Fajgenbaum for coming on the show. Check out his book "Chasing My Cure" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567298/chasing-my-cure-by-david-fajgenbaum/Donate to David's organization just like I did at Every Cure!: https://everycure.org/Follow David on IG: https://www.instagram.com/dfajgenbaum/Check out David’s...
2025-09-072h 09
Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | Health, Lifestyle, NutritionWhy 80% of Life-Saving Drugs Are Being Ignored by the Medical System | Dr. David Fajgenbaum | Be Well MomentsWhat if the drug that could save your life… already exists? In this powerful story from David Fajgenbaum, you'll hear how a man on the brink of death discovered an existing drug, never approved for his illness, that brought him back. But the real shock? No one profits from it, so no one’s looking. Learn the hidden world of drug repurposing, AI-driven discovery, and the mission to match life-saving treatments to the people who need them most.Listen to the full episode here.Watch the full episode on YouTube here.***If you enjoyed this episode you might...
2025-07-1210 min
HealthTech RemedyDrug Repurposing: How Every Cure's AI Platform Unlocks Treatments for Diseases with founder Dr. David FajgenbaumCould a cure for your disease already be sitting on a pharmacy shelf? In this episode, we explore the revolutionary work of Every Cure, a nonprofit on a mission to unlock the hidden potential of existing drugs through a groundbreaking approach to drug repurposing. We sit down with co-founder Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a physician-scientist who saved his own life by discovering a new use for an old drug after being diagnosed with the rare Castleman disease. His journey sparked a global movement to find treatments for the millions of patients suffering from diseases with no approved therapies. ...
2025-07-0935 min
HawkeTalk142: Dr. David Fajgenbaum: Turning His Near-Death Diagnosis Into a Global MissionWhat if the cure for a deadly disease is already sitting on a pharmacy shelf—but no one knows it?In this episode, I sat down with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a former D1 college football player turned physician-scientist who is transforming the way we treat disease. You’ll hear how David went from chasing touchdowns to chasing cures—first for his mom, who died of brain cancer, and then for himself, after nearly dying from a rare disease that had no known treatment.David shares how he used his own blood samples, data, and sh...
2025-06-1040 min
HawkeTalk[Trailer] Dr. David Fajgenbaum: Turning His Near-Death Diagnosis Into a Global MissionWhat if the cure for a deadly disease is already sitting on a pharmacy shelf—but no one knows it?In this episode, I sat down with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a former D1 college football player turned physician-scientist who is transforming the way we treat disease. You’ll hear how David went from chasing touchdowns to chasing cures—first for his mom, who died of brain cancer, and then for himself, after nearly dying from a rare disease that had no known treatment.David shares how he used his own blood samples, data, and sh...
2025-06-1001 min
Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn HoldernessLifesaving Work No One’s Talking About with Dr. David FajgenbaumThere’s this phrase Penn and I say a lot when we’re overwhelmed making goofy internet videos—“It’s okay, we’re not saving lives.” But this week, we talk to a man who actually is saving lives and he needs us to help spread the word. Dr. David Fajgenbaum is the founder of Every Cure, a nonprofit that’s on a mission to do something that sounds impossible—use already-approved drugs to treat diseases they weren’t originally made for. Diagnosed with Castleman disease, Dr. David refused to accept that there was no cure. So, he saved his own life by repu...
2025-06-1044 min
Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | Health, Lifestyle, NutritionHow AI is Revolutionizing Medicine | The Doctor Who Saved Himself With AI | Dr. David FajgenbaumThere are defining moments that split your life into before and after. Moments when everything you thought you knew gets stripped away, leaving only what truly matters. For Dr. David Fajgenbaum, that moment came not once, but five times, each bringing him closer to death and, paradoxically, teaching him how to live.This week's episode explores what happens when the system fails you and you refuse to accept failure. When David was diagnosed with Castleman disease at 25, a rare condition where your immune system turns against your own body, traditional medicine reached its limits...
2025-05-2854 min
LabMindAn Interview With Dr. David Fajgenbaum: Embracing the “Ignorome” To Expedite Clinical ScienceAfter nearly dying from a mysterious disease during medical school, Dr. David Fajgenbaum dedicated his career to breaking down barriers in biomedical research. Fajgenbaum is now an associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and cofounder of Every Cure. In this conversation, we discuss his personal diagnostic journey and the errors and delays he encountered along the way. We also explore why academic medicine needs to go beyond generating disparate pieces of scientific knowledge and instead turn that information into nodes on a network that spans specialty silos to speed the discovery of effective treatments.
2025-05-2140 min
Curveball with Scott Reich#4 The Doctor Who Cured Himself: David Fajgenbaum’s Mission to Treat Rare DiseasesOn this episode of Curveball, host Scott Reich sits down with Dr. David Fajgenbaum—an immunologist, author, and professor at Penn. David’s story is nothing short of extraordinary: after losing his mother to brain cancer as a college student, he channeled his grief into community-building by founding a national support network for grieving students. But life threw him another, even more staggering curveball when, as a promising med student, he was suddenly struck by a rare and deadly condition: Castleman disease. Not only did David nearly die literally five times, but in the face of scant research and litt...
2025-05-1443 min
ReThinkingHow David Fajgenbaum saved his own life — and thousands of othersDavid Fajgenbaum had his last rites read to him at 25 years old after a brutal struggle with an inflammatory disease that attacks the vital organs. As a medical student with two weeks left to live, he repurposed a drug and tested it on himself—and saved his own life. Now, he’s repeating the same process for many others through his nonprofit, Every Cure, with the mission of unlocking the full potential of existing drugs to treat every disease possible. David and Adam discuss the building blocks of resilience, explore the disincentives that prevent hidden cures from coming to ligh...
2025-03-2540 min
Worklife with Adam GrantReThinking: How David Fajgenbaum saved his own life — and thousands of othersDavid Fajgenbaum had his last rites read to him at 25 years old after a brutal struggle with an inflammatory disease that attacks the vital organs. As a medical student with two weeks left to live, he repurposed a drug and tested it on himself—and saved his own life. Now, he’s repeating the same process for many others through his nonprofit, Every Cure, with the mission of unlocking the full potential of existing drugs to treat every disease possible. David and Adam discuss the building blocks of resilience, explore the disincentives that prevent hidden cures from coming to ligh...
2025-03-2540 min
Business Leadership SeriesRace for the Cure with Dr. David FajgenbaumListen to this powerful interview with Dr. David Fajgenbaum who has an incredible new memoir, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action". David’s story is truly unique; it’s a tale of learning to live, while dying: a universally relatable story about getting up and fighting back after life knocks you down.A former Georgetown quarterback nicknamed "The Beast," David Fajgenbaum was also a force in medical school, where he was known for his unmatched mental stamina. But things changed dramatically when he began suffering from inexplicable fatigue. In a matter of week...
2024-11-0325 min
Choiceology with Katy MilkmanA Hero's Journey: With Guests Ethan Gilsdorf, David Fajgenbaum & Kurt GrayLuke Skywalker, Frodo Baggins, Katniss Everdeen, the main characters of many great stories, they all have one thing in common: the shape of their journey. From answering the call to adventure, to undergoing tests of character and strengths, to triumphantly returning home forever changed. It's a classic narrative structure that's inspired countless tales from ancient myths to modern media. But it's not just great for entertainment. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at how this specific type of storytelling can be leveraged to make your life more manageable, exciting, and meaningful. Wri...
2024-10-2139 min
I AM BIOA Doctor Fights to Save His Own Life: The David Fajgenbaum Story.David Fajgenbaum was in his third year of medical school when he was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening disease that began shutting down his organs, bringing him perilously close to death. Although he survived the initial episode, he faced four additional relapses, each pushing him to the brink of death. In this episode, we speak with David about his relentless journey to discover the treatment that ultimately put his disease into remission. We also explore how his personal battle inspired the creation of a groundbreaking approach to help others suffering from rare diseases.Follow us on...
2024-09-1021 min
Everything Happens with Kate BowlerDavid Fajgenbaum: Hope Wears SneakersThis is the story of one young doctor’s race against the clock as he searches for a cure for his own rare disease. In this conversation, Kate and David Fajgenbaum discuss: how love can turn hope into action what limited agency means how small steps can lead to big change This episode originally aired in 2020. Stay tuned to the end to hear an incredible update from David and the work he is up to now. He has expanded from finding the cure for his own incurable disease to developing an organization that does the sa...
2024-07-3042 minMurder in IllinoisCase #17: Every Cure Pt.1 (Dr. David Fajgenbaum)Dr. David Fajgenbaum, once a college quarterback and competitive weightlifter, turned medical researcher, was the picture of health until he became critically ill at the age of 25. After all available treatments failed to keep him out of the ICU, David, with his friend Grant’s help, races to save his own life, repurposing existing drugs to find a cure. * * * * * ******* SPOILER ALERT BELOW ******If you’re looking for information on Castleman disease or if would like to find out more about the work of Grant, David, and the Every Cure team, visit Eve...
2024-07-2340 minSymptomatic: A Medical Mystery PodcastCase #17: Every Cure Pt.1 (Dr. David Fajgenbaum)Dr. David Fajgenbaum, once a college quarterback and competitive weightlifter, turned medical researcher, was the picture of health until he became critically ill at the age of 25. After all available treatments failed to keep him out of the ICU, David, with his friend Grant’s help, races to save his own life, repurposing existing drugs to find a cure. * * * * * ******* SPOILER ALERT BELOW ******If you’re looking for information on Castleman disease or if would like to find out more about the work of Grant, David, and the Every Cure team, visit Eve...
2024-07-2340 min
The Jordan Harbinger Show1005: David Fajgenbaum | Leveraging AI to Cure Rare DiseasesAfter treating his own rare disease, Chasing My Cure author David Fajgenbaum explains how existing drugs can help other sufferers survive the unknown.
What We Discuss with David Fajgenbaum:
Dr. David Fajgenbaum nearly died multiple times from a rare ailment called Castleman disease, for which there was no effective treatment available.
The current healthcare system does not incentivize pharmaceutical companies to find new uses for existing drugs, especially for rare diseases, leaving many potential treatments undiscovered.
Driven by his own experiences, Dr. Fajgenbaum realized that many existing FDA-approved drugs could be used to fight rare diseases f...
2024-06-181h 27
Once Upon A GeneEpisode 228 - Strength In Unity - The Power of Consolidated Rare Disease Advocacy, Collaborative Breakthroughs, and the Every Cure Initiative with Dr. David FajgenbaumONCE UPON A GENE - EPISODE 228Strength In Unity - The Power of Consolidated Rare Disease Advocacy, Collaborative Breathroughs, and the Every Cure Initiative with Dr. David FajgenbaumDr. David Fajgenbaum is is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and national bestselling author of Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action. He joins me to discuss the critical role of unity among our rare disease patient advocacy organizations and why it's important to stick together. We'll also talk about the transformative potential of everycare initiative.
2024-05-0951 min
DoctorPodcasts || Cykiert FilesAI repurposing FDA approved drugs with David Fajgenbaum, M.D.Innovative physician David Fajgenbaum, M.D. @DavidFajgenbaum discusses http://EveryCure.org mission of #AI repurposing FDA approved drugs for treating rare diseases. Read his book http://ChasingMyCure.com for how he won a personal battle with a devastating disease. More on Dr. Fajgenbaum at http://med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8205911… and http://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/david-fajgenbaum-md-msc/… and http://cdcn.org/leadership-team/david-fajgenbaum/
2024-05-0440 min
The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better scienceTLP #28 : Curing with a Community - David FajgenbaumIn this episode, we kick off our Season 3 guests with David Fajgenbaum who shares his extraordinary journey to cure himself from Castleman disease.David shares his very personal story of searching for a cure to his own diseaseHe describes how having a vision for the future helped him to surviveHe insists that patients can be part of the process and can be active collaborators in the search for curesHe pleads for a shift from an Investigator initiated model to a Community initiated model involving collaboration between researchers, clinicians and patientsDavid also insists that approved drugs could...
2024-04-301h 11
Two Disabled Dudes243 - EveryCure and the Power of Collaboration w/ Dr. David FajgenbaumIn this episode, Dr. David Fajgenbaum shares his journey of discovering a drug that saved his own life. He emphasizes the importance of repurposing existing drugs for new uses and highlights the potential of artificial intelligence in identifying such opportunities.Dr. Fajgenbaum discusses his nonprofit organization, EveryCure, which aims to unlock new uses for existing FDA-approved drugs. The organization utilizes biomedical knowledge and AI algorithms to analyze connections between drugs, genes, proteins, pathways, and diseases. The goal is to find potential treatments for various diseases by evaluating existing drugs.VIEW THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE
2024-03-0450 min
3 Thoughts On...#34 - Chasing Our Cure with Dr David FajgenbaumToday my guest is Dr David Fajgenbaum. David is the co-founder and President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN), Founding Director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), Associate Director of Patient Impact for the Penn Orphan Disease Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania.
David’s story is truly fascinating. While in medical school in 2010, David became critically ill with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD); he had his last rites read, and had four deadly iMCD relapses. During this time, David decided to find w...
2024-02-2139 min
The Coach Mark Gottfried ShowEp. #6 | Dr. David Fajgenbaum: Fighting For Your Life Against All OddsCoach Mark Gottfried sits down with Dr David Fajgenbaum, who is the youngest tenured professor ever at Penn Med, the doctor who cured himself of a fatal diagnosis, National bestselling author of Chasing my Cure and Castleman Disease Collaborative Network founder along with Everycure co-founder. Coach Gottfried & Dr Fajgenbaum cover everything from playing in overtime, his new movie deal on his experiences while living like every second counts to curing diseases & living a meaningful life.
2023-11-2258 min
The Zack Arnold PodcastTOP 5: What Five Near-Death Experiences Can Teach Us About Living | with Dr. David FajgenbaumGiven the vast amounts of fear & uncertainty surrounding the current job market I thought I’d give you a dose of inspiration, motivation, and dare I say, even a little gratitude to remind us all of the resilience and adaptability of the human race. On the heels of my recent conversation with Brad Stulberg who wrote the book Master of Change which provides practical ways to adapt and develop resiliency in the face of change, as well as my recent conversation with disability advocate Taylor Lewis, this upcoming series is sure to give you a new appreciation for the grow...
2023-09-2656 min
Brilliantly ResilientEpisode 175: Brilliantly Resilient Reading List Week 5! Creating Silver Linings with Dr. David Fajgenbaum"Create a silver lining. Do something, build something, create something." ~ Dr. David Fajgenbaum, Chasing My Cure Dr. David Fajgenbaum: Chasing My Cure David Fajgenbaum, a former Georgetown quarterback, was nicknamed the Beast in medical school, where he was also known for his unmatched mental stamina. But things changed dramatically when he began suffering from a form of Castleman disease, an extremely deadly and rare condition. When he relapsed while on the only drug in development and realized that the medical community was unlikely to make progress in time to save his life, Fajgenbaum turned his desperate hope for...
2023-08-0142 min
The Doctor's ArtThe Physician Who Cured Himself | David Fajgenbaum, MDAs a medical student, former college quarterback David Fajgenbaum, MD was at the peak of his health and physique when he suddenly came down with a mysterious disease that, within weeks, led to multiple organ system failure. Dr. Fajgenbaum found himself on the brink of death over and over again in the intensive care unit, at one point receiving his last rites, with all of his doctors baffled about the cause of his illness. When the culprit was eventually found to be Castleman Disease, a rare disease entity that to...
2023-08-011h 05
Re:solve TalksDr. David Fajgenbaum turns hope into action for those living with rare diseasesDr. David Fajgenbaum understands better than most what it is like to live on both sides of medicine. He has been both patient and caregiver, taking his experiences over the past 13 years to inform his work as a rare disease advocate and innovator, working to find ways to unlock the potential of existing drugs and repurpose them as new treatment solutions. Back in 2010, when he was a third-year medical student, he became critically ill.
He was diagnosed with Castleman disease -- a rare immune disorder. He nearly died five times. At one point, he was even read h...
2023-07-1924 min
Around the Rheum with Drs. Daniel Ennis & Janet PopeEpisode 30: Chasing my Cure with Dr David FajgenbaumThis month, we're thrilled to have Dr. David Fajgenbaum on our podcast. He is a clinician scientist, rare disease patient, author, and all-around incredible human being. On this episode, he tells the riveting true story of his battle with Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman’s Disease (IMCD), including his brush with death (a priest gave him last rites), and his subsequent journey to discovering his own cure. David later wrote a book about his journey called ‘Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action” and co-founded ‘Every Cure,’ a nonprofit organization aimed at unlocking the full potential of every approv...
2023-04-2742 min
In the Bubble with Andy SlavittAn Easier Path to Curing Disease Under Our Nose (with David Fajgenbaum)Dr. David Fajgenbaum nearly died five times from Castleman Disease before deciding to find a cure for the rare disorder himself. As the clock was ticking, he discovered that the inexpensive kidney transplant drug sirolimus could save his life. Nine healthy years later, Andy speaks with David about how that experience motivated him to save more lives by finding new uses for existing medicines. Keep up with Andy on Twitter and Post @ASlavitt. Follow David Fajgenbaum on Twitter @DavidFajgenbaum. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus...
2023-04-2440 min
Behind The Knife: The Surgery PodcastDoctor Cure Thyself: An Interview With Dr. David FajgenbaumDO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE! Need a little inspiration? Tune in for Dave's story. Links from the show:
Chasing My Cure: https://chasingmycure.com/ CDCN: https://cdcn.org/
Every Cure: https://everycure.org/
AMF: https://healgrief.org/actively-moving-forward/young-adult-grief/
David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Founding Director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), Associate Director, Patient Impact of the Penn Orphan Disease Center, and Co-Founder/President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and co-founder o...
2023-03-0936 min
The Student Performance PodcastThe Man Who Cured His Own Fatal Disease | Dr. David FajgenbaumImagine that you’re in medical school and were diagnosed with a rare condition that gave you a year to live. But imagine that the condition was so rare that none of your doctors knew how to treat it. So you said screw it, you’re going to do it yourself. You set out on a journey to find your own remedy even if it meant almost dying 5 times in the process. Meet Dr. David Fajgenbaum the man that found his own cure at 27 years old. In the episode of the student performance podcast, I interview Dr. Fajgenbaum to unlo...
2022-10-0741 min
Raise the LineChasing Lifesaving Cures for Himself and Others - Dr. David Fajgenbaum, President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network“I knew I wasn't going to survive unless I found a drug that could save my life,” says Dr. David Fajgenbaum, who has almost died five times from the rare disorder idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease, which he developed while in medical school. Now a physician and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Fajgenbaum has led research efforts into a cure for Castleman, discovering a drug that has kept him disease-free for eight years and is helping other patients. As he continues pursuing new therapies for Castleman, Fajgenbaum is also spearheading an effort to create a system for identifying alte...
2022-08-3126 min
Business Black BeltsDr. David Fajgenbaum, Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on life saving work: Business Black Belts Episode 118David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and one of the youngest individuals to be appointed to the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. An NIH-funded physician-scientist, he has dedicated his life to discovering new treatments and cures for deadly disorders like idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD), which he was diagnosed with during medical school. After spending months hospitalized in critical condition, having his last rites read, and having four deadly relapses, he is now in his longest remission ever thanks to a treatment that he identified in...
2022-08-0933 min
Healing Ground MovementHow to Improve the Quality of Your Whole Life with Guest Dr. David FajgenbaumDr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and national bestselling author of Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action. After nearly dying five times of Castleman disease, Dr. Fajgenbaum discovered a treatment that is saving his life as well as others. Now he is advancing drug repurposing for COVID-19 and other diseases through the Corona Project at the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory. In this episode, he talks about his near-death story, the importance of accessing both lifestyle medicine as well as emergency medical care when ne...
2022-05-1648 min
RemakeDavid Fajgenbaum: How I Saved My Life with DataTODAY'S GUEST Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and author of the national bestselling memoir, Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action, which has been translated into five languages and named one of the "Best Non-Fiction Books" by the Next Big Idea Club. Best known as the 'doctor who cured himself', Fajgenbaum went from being a hyper-fit college quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school and nearly dying four more times battling Castleman disease. To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an in...
2022-03-171h 00
Chatter that MattersDr. David Fajgenbaum - A CURE MATTERS 'This med student was given his last rites before he found a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions more.' David Fajgenbaum, MD, is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, and speaker. His memoir, Chasing My Cure, is bringing awareness to how common drugs can be repurposed to cure rare diseases. Today, Dr. David Fajgenbaum is my guest, but he should not be here. Known by his friends as 'the beast' - he went from being a fit young man, champion weightlifter and college quarterback – to fighting a rare disease that nearl...
2022-03-1141 min
The PathPod PodcastBeyond the Scope: Dr. David Fajgenbaum, author of ”Chasing My Cure, A Doctor’s Race To Turn Hope Into Action”In this episode of Beyond The Scope, our host, Dr. Kamran Mirza (@KMirza) speaks with award-winning author, physician-scientist, Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Warrior, pathologist-admiring all-round badass, Dr. David Fajgenbaum (@DavidFajgenbaum), author of "Chasing My Cure, A Doctor’s Race To Turn Hope Into Action" - Learn more about David’s story; living life as if its in overtime; the silos in medicine and research; repurposing what we have already discovered; turning scientific hypotheses on their head; social media; and last but not least, pathologists. Get your copy of Chasing my Cure here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524799610 and check out...
2022-03-1149 min
Physicians Off The Beaten Path06- Physician-Writer Series: David Fajgenbaum, MD (Castleman Disease Collaborative Network)What is it like to navigate the healthcare system both as a healthcare professional and as a patient? What is the state of research for rare diseases right now? Is an MBA important for docs to consider? In this episode, we answer all these questions and more with our guest David Fajgenbaum, MD.
David is an assistant professor of medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. He's also the founding director of the center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL). He is the co-founder/president of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN). David...
2021-09-0842 min
The State of Health with Gunnar EsiasonTurning Hope into Action with Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the Castleman Disease Collaborative NetworkDr. David Fajgenbaum joins Gunnar on the podcast to talk about his New York Times Bestselling book, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action" and his journey from division 1 college football quarterback and medical student to a rare disease patient up against the clock to find a treatment for his suddenly diagnosed Castleman Disease. Gunnar and Dr. Fajgenbaum talk about the hurdles that often stand in front of rare disease patient populations like decentralized patient organizations, a lack of a single scientific strategy and the absence of capital required for therapeutic development. Dr. Fajgenbaum ha...
2021-07-1426 min
This Week in VirologyThe CORONA project with David FajgenbaumDavid joins TWiV to relate how his near-death experience with Castleman’s disease motivated him to found the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory and the CORONA project to identify and track all treatments reported for COVID-19 in an open-source data repository. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: David Fajgenbaum Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode CORONA project Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory Castleman Disease Collaborative Network Chasing My Cure Letters read on TWiV 766 Timestamps...
2021-06-101h 26
Game Changer Mentality – Strategies and Tactics to Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Your Positive PotentialChasing Our Cures: How To Live A Life Full Of Hope And Vision With David FajgenbaumWhen you’re at your lowest point in life, there’s one thing that you have to have, and that is hope. That is how David Fajgenbaum survived Castleman disease. David is a physician, scientist, author, and Co-founder of Castleman Disease Collaboration Network. Diagnosed with this very rare disease, he was at his wit's end but found hope just as things were about to get worse. David found his cure, and he narrates the story of his journey with the disease and the treatment that saved him in his book, Chasing My Cure. Today, David joins Rodney Flowers to talk ab...
2021-06-0348 min
Game Changer Mentality – Strategies and Tactics to Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Your Positive PotChasing Our Cures: How To Live A Life Full Of Hope And Vision With David FajgenbaumWhen you’re at your lowest point in life, there’s one thing that you have to have, and that is hope. That is how David Fajgenbaum survived Castleman disease. David is a physician, scientist, author, and Co-founder of Castleman Disease Collaboration Network. Diagnosed with this very rare disease, he was at his wit's end but found hope just as things were about to get worse. David found his cure, and he narrates the story of his journey with the disease and the treatment that saved him in his book, Chasing My Cure. Today, David joins Rodney Flowers to talk about h...
2021-06-0348 min
Design Lab with Bon KuDesigning Cures | David FajgenbaumDr. David Fajgenbaum is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and author. He went from being a beast-like college Quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school and nearly dying four more times battling Castleman disease. To try to save his own life, David spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and discovered a treatment that is saving his life and others. He described his journey and lessons learned in Chasing My Cure, which has been translated into five languages, named one of the “Best Non-Fiction Books of 2019,” and profiled by Good...
2021-05-1342 min
Doing it Right: The Stories that Make UsDoing it Right! Ep. 104 | Dr. David Fajgenbaum – Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaWhat would you do if you suddenly contracted a rare disease that had no cure? Dr. David Fajgenbaum developed Castleman’s Disease during his 3rd year of Med School.Just prior he could bench press 375 lbs.—a healthy former football star and promisingdoctor. The disease almost killed him not once, not twice—but five times. That’s whenDavid decided to experiment on his own body in hopes of finding a cure.You won’t want to miss the most miraculous story ever to be featured on Doing It Right.Teachable...
2021-04-0535 min
EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine GounderS1E63 / Chasing the Cure / David Fajgenbaum"When we think about a virus we don't think as much about the immune response to the virus but it is just so, so critical." -David FajgenbaumWhere do treatments come from when there's a new disease like COVID-19? The vast majority of drugs prescribed to treat COVID during the pandemic are actually old drugs. Some of the most effective have been around for as much as 70 years. In this episode of EPIDEMIC, we’re going to hear how David Fajgenbaum's quest for a treatment for his rare disease is helping find effective treatments for COVID — and othe...
2021-02-2522 min
The Health Design PodcastDavid FajgenbaumDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN), and Associate Director, Patient Impact for the Penn Orphan Disease Center.
David Fajgenbaum is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action. He went from being a beast-like college Quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school and nearly dying...
2021-01-2531 min
Frank Buckley InterviewsDr. David Fajgenbaum, Disease HunterDr. David Fajgenbaum is a medical doctor and University of Pennsylvania researcher who experimented on himself to save his own life. Dr. Fajgenbaum discovered he had Castleman disease, a rare disease that ravaged his body and nearly killed him. After experiencing several bouts of the disease, he set about researching his condition to determine what if anything could be done to “cure” it. He chronicles the story in his book “Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action.” His research into the cytokine storms he experienced as a Castleman disease patient is now helping in the fight a...
2020-12-1641 min
Mission Evolution with Gwilda WiyakaME: Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD - COVID-19 Drug RepurposingDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action." Labeled the ‘doctor who cured himself’ by NY Times, Fajgenbaum went from being a college quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school. He nearly died four more times battling Castleman disease, a deadly cytokine storm disorder. To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network discovering a treatment that has put him into his longest remiss...
2020-09-231h 00
Mission Evolution with Gwilda WiyakaME: Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD - COVID-19 Drug RepurposingDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action." Labeled the ‘doctor who cured himself’ by NY Times, Fajgenbaum went from being a college quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school. He nearly died four more times battling Castleman disease, a deadly cytokine storm disorder. To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network discovering a treatment that has put him into his longest remiss...
2020-09-231h 01
Good Life ProjectChasing My Cure | Dr. David FajgenbaumAs a kid, all David Fajgenbaum could think about was football. It consumed his life, being the quarterback on a top college team was his singular mission. And, he accomplished that, landing a spot on Georgetown’s team. But, fate would soon step in, when the loss of his mom to aggressive brain cancer would change his focus and inspire a new devotion, to help find a cure and support families moving through loss. But his dance with illness was just beginning. In the blink of an eye, Fajgenbaum went from being a beast-like college quarterback to rec...
2020-09-211h 01
Once Upon A GeneDavid Fajgenbaum - Chasing My Cure - A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into ActionDavid Fajgenbaum - Chasing My Cure - A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into ActionDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and author of the national bestselling memoir, Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSCan you tell us about your diagnosis of idiopathic multicentric castleman disease (IMCD)?What were your symptoms and how quickly were you hospitalized?How did you eventually get a diagnosis?What incentives need to be in place t...
2020-08-1353 min
The Gifters: Your Story is a Gift to the WorldEp. 815: David FajgenbaumDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and one of the youngest individuals to be appointed to the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. An NIH-funded physician-scientist, he has dedicated his life to discovering new treatments and cures for deadly disorders like idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD), which he was diagnosed with during medical school. After spending months hospitalized in critical condition, having his last rites read, and having four deadly relapses, he is now in his longest remission ever thanks to a treatment that he identified in...
2020-07-2314 min
Wharton Moneyball7/22/2020: COVID-19, Sports, David FajgenbaumDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc is a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action. Fajgenbaum went from being a beast-like college Quarterback to receiving his last rites while in medical school and nearly dying four more times battling Castleman disease. To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an innovative approach to research and discovered a possible treatment that has put him into an extended remission. Now, he is spreading this approach to advance cures for other diseases and sharing lessons he learned...
2020-07-221h 45
The Art of ExcellenceDavid Fajgenbaum: Chasing a cure for the rare Castleman Disease David Fajgenbaum is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the associate director for the Orphan Disease Center. He is also cofounder and executive director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and the cofounder of the National Students of Ailing Mothers and Fathers Support Network. He has received numerous awards including the Forbes "30 Under 30" for healthcare and the RARE Champion of Hope Award for science. His memoir is titled Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action. Some interesting insights from this episode: David has a hyperfocus vari...
2020-07-2247 min
The Oncology PodcastThe OJC Meets David FajgenbaumSend us a textThe Oncology Podcast - An Australian Oncology PerspectiveThe Oncology Podcast, brought to you by www.oncologynews.com.au, is proud to present this full length interview of David Fajgenbaum, who give the opening address at ASCO 2020. David is a truly groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker and author of the bestselling memoir Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action. He speaks candidly to Eva Segelov about his experiences as a patient, advocate and researcher, trying to improve outcomes for himself and...
2020-07-1754 min
COVID-19: Commonsense Conversations on the Coronavirus PandemicMEDICINE: Chasing Cures for Rare Diseases and COVID-19 | David Fajgenbaum, MDRecorded June 5, 2020.Your host is Dr. Ted O’Connell, family physician, educator, and author of numerous textbooks and peer-reviewed articles. He holds academic appointments at UCSF, UC Davis, and Drexel University's medical schools and also founded the Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano Community Medicine and Global Health Fellowship, the first program in the U.S. to formally combine both community medicine and global health. Follow Ted on Instagram (@tedoconnellmd) and Twitter (@tedoconnell)!Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a groundbreaking physician-scientist, disease hunter, speaker, and bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir, "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope...
2020-06-1034 min
Docs Outside The Box161 - Believe in yourself… Your life depends on it with David FajgenbaumSEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show!What’s good! On the surface, David Fajgenbaum appears to have it all. He’s married, has a child, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania. You don’t have to dig too deep to learn the determination of this man. In medical school, David had death knocking on his door 5 times after being diagnosed with the extremely rare Castleman disease. Running out of treatment options, he took matters into his own hands by dev...
2020-05-1856 min
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael GervaisLiving with Urgency —Why Tomorrow Isn't Promised | Dr. David FajgenbaumThis week’s conversation is with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a groundbreaking physician-scientist and disease hunter.The timing of his insights is incredibly relevant for us right now.David is best known as the ‘doctor who cured himself’ – he received his last rites while in medical school and nearly died four more times battling Castleman disease.To try to save his own life, he spearheaded an innovative approach to research through the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and discovered a treatment that has put him into his longest remission ever.Now, he is spreading th...
2020-05-131h 07
Everything Happens with Kate BowlerDavid Fajgenbaum: Hope Wears SneakersThis is the story of one young doctor’s race against the clock as he searches for a cure for his own rare disease that brought him to the brink of death too many times to count. In this episode, Kate and David Fajgenbaum speak about facing impossible odds and how love can turn hope into action. CW: Death of a parent, chronic illness For show notes, the transcript, and discussion questions: https://katebowler.com/podcasts/david-fajgenbaum-hope-wears-sneakers/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com...
2020-05-1233 min
The Zack Arnold PodcastWhat Five Near-Death Experiences Can Teach Us About Living | with Dr. David FajgenbaumAs we’ve learned over the last several weeks (or is it months? Or years? I’ve lost track), there is very little we have control over in life. But if there’s one meta-lesson I hope to take away from current events it’s that although we have no control over what happens around us, the one thing we do have control over is how we react to the circumstances in our lives.And now more than ever, we could all use an injection of inspiration!Dr. David Fajgenbaum, the author of ‘Chasing My Cure,’ is...
2020-05-0558 min
Living A Life In FullInnovation in Treating COVID-19 and Other Diseases: Making Personalized Medicine Personal with David Fajgenbaum, MDDr. David Fajgenbaum has been so close to death that Last Rites have performed—five times. While in medical school, David became critically ill with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease. This is his story and his work. He is one the top one-percent youngest grant awardees of a leading NIH grant. He is also Founding Director of the Center for Study and Treatment of Castleman Disease, cofounder of the Actively Moving Forward Support Network (a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting grieving college students), and co-founder and Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network. He's the auth...
2020-05-011h 08
The PennHealthX Podcast54 - COVIDCast #5 - Dr. David Fajgenbaum - Repurposing Drugs in the Fight Against COVIDFor this episode, Jonathan Wakim and my fellow Co-President Logan Brock joined me to welcome back our very first guest on this podcast all the way back in 2017, Dr. David Fajgenbaum.
In the episode we hear about some of the major milestones and highlights of the last 3 years since we last spoke with Dr. Fajgenbaum. These include memories of successfully treating other Castleman patients with the drug sirolimus, the birth of his daughter Amelia at Pennsylvania Hospital, and publishing the book, Chasing My Cure.
We also discuss the decision to transition some of Dr. Fajgenbaum’s lab’s resources to stud...
2020-04-2935 min
WCG Talks TrialsDr. David Fajgenbaum, MD, Castleman’s Disease Survivor, Facing COVID-19 with Research, Action, and HopeIn this COVID-19 focused episode, Dr. David Fajgenbaum chats with President of WCG Patient Advocacy, Steve Smith, to talk about his journey as a medical researcher and patient of a rare disease and about the pandemic facing our daily lives. Known for his best-selling book, Chasing My Cure: Turning Hope Into Action, Dr. Fajgenbaum shares best practices for how everyone facing this crisis can get through these scary and trying times together as a community via hope, prayer, action, humor, and the ability to create silver linings. Their discussion also highlights the importance of social distancing for p...
2020-04-0123 minThe mindbodygreen PodcastLife lessons from a doctor who almost died from an incurable disease | David Fajgenbaum, M.D.David Fajgenbaum, M.D., MBA, M.Sc., FCPP: “I knew that there was no way I would make it to my wedding day unless I found a drug that could keep me alive.”Fajgenbaum, an immunologist and author of Chasing My Cure, sits down with co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how he created his own treatment for the rare Castleman Disease, plus:*Why we should stop waiting for perfect moments**How college football helped prepare him for the ICU**The importance of finding positivity during tough times**Why a day...
2020-03-3148 minBio, Tech & BeyondChasing My Cure with Dr. David FajgenbaumJoin us to listen to Dr. David Fajgenbaum discuss his battle with Castleman's Disease, a deadly auto-immune condition which causes multiple organ failure. During medical school, Dr. Fajgenbuam suddenly became deathly ill. What followed was a multi-year ordeal of chasing a diagnosis and eventually, finding a treatment that can keep the disease at bay. David wrote about his extraordinary experience in a memoir that shares many life lessons and key insights on how to reform our biomedical system to more rapidly search for cures for those who need them most--rare disease patients. As we continually explore on this...
2020-03-151h 03
Digital Health Today 360 with Dan KendallDr. David Fajgenbaum on Chasing a Cure for Rare DiseaseOur guest: Dr. David Fajgenbaum is the co-founder & Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at UPenn. After being diagnosed with Castleman disease as a 3rd year medical student and narrowly escaping death several times, David was told that there were no treatments available that could help him. David realized his only hope was to create a new model for advancing the fight again rare and deadly illnesses.With 25-30 million people with rare diseases in the US alone, there is a tremendous need for new approaches for repurposing...
2020-02-2538 min
The #PopHealth ShowDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, Prof. of Med. @ Univ. of PA School Of Med. - Leadership In Rare DiseasesJoin us today as we speak with David Fajgenbaum, MD, Professor Of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine about leadership in rare diseases.
2020-02-1722 min
Work and Life with Stew FriedmanEp 157. David Fajgenbaum: Turning Hope Into ActionDavid Fajgenbaum is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a memoir called Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action. David is the co-founder and executive director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and an NIH-funded physician-scientist. Diagnosed with Castleman’s disease while in medical school, David has dedicated his life to discovering new treatments and cures for deadly disorders like Castleman disease. For this inspirational work he’s been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 healthcare list, as a top healthcare leader by Becker's...
2020-02-0550 min
4sightHealth Market Corner ConversationsMARKET CORNER CONVERSATIONS: David Fajgenbaum MD, author of Chasing My Cure<p>Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a survivor, physician-scientist, and disease hunter. David Johnson interviews Dr. Dave about his battle with Castleman disease, in which Dr. Dave experienced how the fragmented research ...</p>
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2020-02-0300 min
Game Changers with Molly FletcherDavid Fajgenbaum on What I Learned About Living from Nearly DyingImagine facing a life-threatening disease with no known cure. Now imagine that you are a physician- and the person facing the disease is you. That's the story David Fajgenbaum tells in his memoir, Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race To Turn Hope Into Action. David battles Castleman disease, a rare disease involving the immune system attacking and shutting down vital organs. Faced with lengthy hospitalizations and multiple near-death relapses, David realized that the best person to find a cure might be himself. In our conversation, David shares what it means to turn hope into action and why sometimes you...
2019-11-2646 minTwo Disabled Dudes091 - Chasing Our Cure with Dr. David FajgenbaumDr. David Fajgenbaum has a rare disease called Castleman's Disease which put him on his death bed 5 times as he was in medical school and earning his MBA. He repurposed a drug to treat himself and is now the world's leading researcher in Castleman's Disease. He is now helping other rare disease groups by training them to use his collaborative approach to research. He also just published a book called Chasing My Cure. Please enjoy our conversation with our friend Dr. David Fajgenbaum. @DavidFajgenbaum
2019-10-2836 minFrank Buckley InterviewsDr. David Fajgenbaum, Disease Hunter/Author "Chasing My Cure"Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a medical doctor and University of Pennsylvania researcher who experimented on himself to save his own life. Dr. Fajgenbaum discovered he had Castleman disease, a rare disease that ravaged his body and nearly killed him. After experiencing several bouts of the disease, he set about researching his condition to determine what if anything could be done to "cure" it. He chronicles the story in his new book "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action."During this podcast, Dr. Fajgenbaum details the near-death experiences he had while h...
2019-10-0239 min