Dr. David Fajgenbaum
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Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
At EveryCure, our nonprofit, we don't take a score and then put that drug into a person.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
We evaluate it by MDs, PhDs, and MD-PhDs.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
And then we do laboratory studies.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
We work with experts to get into guidelines.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
So we want other people to take a similar process.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
A couple of things immediately come to mind.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
I mean, number one is patient harm.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
A patient taking a medicine that causes harm to them that had not undergone the studies necessary to evaluate it in that disease.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
Now, the good news is that every drug we score is already FDA approved for something.
Radiolab
The Medical Matchmaking Machine
So we're not, there's no drugs on there that like someone would be like, oh my gosh, just never got a regulatory approval.