Alexandra Tillmann
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50 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 28 Feb
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All right, David, Kia, thank you so much for being here.
Let's jump in.
Can you both share when you realized that life couldn't just happen to you, that you had to actively start choosing a path forward?
David, I'll start with you.
You know, as you both talked about, our life is shaped by our circumstances, right?
Some more formative than others.
You nearly lost your life.
And some we can control more than others, but they all contribute to where we head, right?
As I shared, you know, these can be dramatic or they can be small.
David, you know, your near-death experience with Castleman's disease led you to become both patient and researcher really simultaneously.
And Kia, as you just shared, the economic resources of your family that you were born into really affected kind of what you dreamed for your future.
These are the realities of your lives, but you managed to use it for your creative fuel, for your energy.
Can you talk a little bit about how you took those things out of your control and used them to expand rather than to contract, which I think can be a very natural experience for some people?
It's incredible.
I love that.
Kia, you just were touching on something.
You were talking about the fragility of healthcare across the country, which really led you to start Serum.
In your work, you often confront systems that are not easy to change or that aren't fair.
And you've witnessed, as you shared, families that are making impossible choices between being able to afford medicine, being able to get food on the table for dinner.
These are issues we're all hearing about every day on our news, too.
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