David Fajgenbaum — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Physician-Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is one of the youngest faculty members ever to receive tenure at Penn Medicine.
Co-Founder & President of Every Cure, a non-profit focused on repurposing drugs, which has received over $100M from ARPA-H and TED’s Audacious Project.
Co-Founder of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and Actively Moving Forward.
Discovered a treatment that saved his own life from idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease and has advanced 13 more repurposed treatments for cancers and rare diseases.
National bestselling author of 'Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action', which is being adapted into a film.
Serves on the Board of Directors for the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA.
Holds an MD from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from The Wharton School, an MSc from the University of Oxford, and a BS from Georgetown University.

Biography

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is a distinguished physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds tenure at Penn Medicine. He is also the co-Founder and President of Every Cure, a non-profit dedicated to repurposing existing medicines to unlock new treatments. Fajgenbaum is the national bestselling author of 'Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action', a book currently being adapted into a film.