David Fajgenbaum

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TED Talks Daily · How do you turn hope into action? A doctor and a public health expert answer | David Fajgenbaum and Celina de Sola · 26 Sep 2025 podcast

It was just sort of that simple of a concept.

It's like, these things work, maybe something else could work.

And then the other was just the realization that I had no other option.

I didn't have a billion dollars in 15 years to create a brand new drug.

If I wanted to survive, I would have to find something that existed.

So it was sort of the constraints of the system.

And then what's been so crazy is just how many drugs there are out there that can help more people that we've been neglecting for so long.

To make the most of that.

And can you maybe share about an individual that has really been touched by your work?

I'd love to hear a personal story.

Well, thank you.

I mean, just as you said before, this is it's all about impact.

That's why we do what we do.

And for you, your impact is so broad reaching and also so deep within these individuals within communities and for us similarly.

We have a very bold and broad mission, and that's to save and improve lives with the drugs we already have by repurposing medicines.

We're called EveryCure, which is a big, broad remit.

But I'll share with you about one patient in particular named Joseph.

And actually, he was at the TED Talk that I gave just a few months ago and was able to be there in the audience, which was so special because I told his story during the talk.

And his story is that

He was critically ill with a horrible rare cancer called Poem Syndrome.

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