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David Fajgenbaum

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

So as opposed to you taking one of the medicines and monitoring your symptoms, you were actually able to apply the medicine to your blood in some kind of way.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Hard was just the figuring out which of these T cells or immune cells were the ones that were problematic.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

That feels hard enough right there.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Because I'm like asking for this IVIG.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

That was going to be one of my questions.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Were you able to prescribe yourself this stuff because you had your medical degree or were you reliant?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

And how hard is it to get other doctors to sign on to this approach?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

It was like a 10-year-old drug at the time.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Been on the market 15 years.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

The question I don't want to ask, but I got to ask is how many of these drugs your body kind of adapts?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Well, to me, Eleven's like, you've definitely passed that window where stuff stops.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Okay, so you come out of this and I don't know in order, but you get a job as a professor at Penn in the medical school.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

That's right.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

And you have a lab.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

And you decide to really dedicate yourself to exploring these other 18,000 diseases with these 4,000 medicines that exist to see what off-label stuff could exist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Are you immediately employing AI?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

When does AI enter the picture?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

Because it's got to be almost impossible without AI.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
David Fajgenbaum (on repurposing medicine)

You would.