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Jul 27, 2024, 08:41

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.
Source: David Fajgenbaum/X

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).