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Dr. David Fajgenbaum

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Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

And so we've intentionally taken the approach of let's use AI and data to find the best uses for the best drugs possible.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

so that we can move them forward so that way we aren't doing Hail Marys.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

But the reality is, Latif, is that people are suffering all the time, and we are contacted all the time, and we want to help any way we can.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

And we're going to be making our algorithms publicly available in about nine months' time.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

But until then, we want to continue to improve them.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

We feel this tremendous responsibility that once we share it, that it's out, right?

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

And so we're going to continue to improve it over the next nine to 12 months, but then we will share it.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

So the intention will be for doctors and researchers to use it.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

So that way they can come up with new areas for research.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

They can think about it for their patients.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

But the reality, I think, is that patients will also use it.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

How do you use it?

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Yeah, so we call it the matrix.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

So it's an acronym.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Everything has to have an acronym in my life.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

It's so it's ML aided therapeutic repurposing and extended uses matrix.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Repurposing R, I in, and then it gets a little sloppy then, extended.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

We're using the X in extended for matrix uses.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Oh, okay.

Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine

Then Eustace.