David Fajgenbaum
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2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 26 Nov
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It's just amazing.
Sure, yeah.
So I went from being this healthy third-year med student at Penn, where I know we both were students, to becoming critically ill.
My organs started to shut down, my liver, my kidneys, my bone marrow, my heart, my lungs.
And I went from being this totally healthy med student to being critically ill.
And so 15 years ago was when I went into the hospital and the ICU.
And...
Nearly died five times over the course of a three-year period from this horrible disease called Castleman disease before eventually getting a diagnosis, getting to receive chemotherapy, and then discovering a drug that wasn't made for my disease that could save my life.
A drug that was made for organ transplant rejection I thought could maybe help.
treat my disease.
And I started testing it on myself.
And it's been 11 and a half years that I've been in remission on this medicine.
Thank you.
I mean, the moment that this drug started saving my life, all I've been able to think about is how many more drugs are out there that are made for one disease that could actually save way more lives.
And that's just become my complete obsession.
And now we've got this nonprofit working on it.
I know there's something out there.
but they weren't made for my disease.
And I kept thinking to myself, everyone's telling me there's no drugs for Castleman's, but you keep giving me chemotherapy and they don't work long-term, but they're saving my life.
Maybe there's another drug made for another disease.
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