David Fajgenbaum: Everything from drug repurposing to what it’s like to win the Nobel Prize
David Fajgenbaum shared a post on X:
“We had such a great time sitting down with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Drew Weissman a couple weeks ago at the Every Cure All-Hands Meeting!
We discussed everything from drug repurposing to what it’s like to win the Nobel Prize!
Check out our full discussion with timestamps below:
0:00- Intro
0:30- The moment Dr. Weissman won the Nobel Prize
3:47- The photocopier that led to a Nobel Prize
6:22- How Dr. Weissman reacted to the COVID pandemic
8:44- Dr. Weissman’s famous pet cat
10:08- What does Dr. Weissman think of repurposing
12:53- How to ensure global access to vaccines
17:38- Dr. Fauci helped diagnose Dr. Fajgenbaum’s rare disease
19:16- Why Does UPenn Cultivate Scientific Discovery
21:40- How can RNA technology cure rare diseases
26:15- Was there a race to discover a COVID vaccine?
28:23- How do you collaborate effectively for scientific discovery
29:45- How to pick which scientific ideas are worth exploring
31:02- Where do you see the future of AI in healthcare
33:07- Who are the people who impacted Dr. Weissman’s life the most
34:33- How does it feel to win a Nobel Prize
35:44- What’s a ‘day in the life’ of Dr. Weissman
36:25- How do we detect harmful contaminants in the medicines we produce
39:06- What kept you motivated to pursue RNA technology
40:10- Did you know the COVID vaccine was going to work right away
41:41- How did you feel when you saw the COVID deaths drop thanks to the vaccines.”
Proceed to the video attached to the post.
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David C. Fajgenbaum is the co-founder and President of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN), the Founding Director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory (CSTL), Associate Director of Patient Impact for the Penn Orphan Disease Center, and an Associate Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Fajgenbaum is also the national bestselling author of “Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action” and a patient battling idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD).