Dr. David Fajgenbaum
Physician-Scientist at UPenn, Co-Founder & President at Every Cure, Best-selling Author, TIME100, 2025 TED Speaker
- Draws on his experience as both a physician-scientist and patient who discovered his own life-saving treatment to teach organizations how to turn adversity into bold, actionable solutions.
- Leverages breakthroughs from advancing 13 repurposed treatments and co-founding Every Cure, a $100M+ initiative, to show how data-driven innovation and collaboration can transform industries.
- Shares lessons from publishing 100+ scientific papers, securing top NIH and FDA grants, and building global networks that leaders can apply to accelerate progress and drive impact.
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About David Fajgenbaum
Download ProfileDavid Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is Co-Founder and President of Every Cure and a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania where he is one of the youngest tenured professors ever at Penn Medicine. He is also battling a deadly disease as a patient and alive thanks to a repurposed treatment he discovered and described in his national bestselling memoir ‘Chasing My Cure‘. He has advanced 13 more repurposed treatments for cancers and rare diseases and co-founded Every Cure to unlock more hidden cures, which has received over $100M from ARPA-H and TED’s Audacious Project.
One of the youngest ever awardees of multiple top NIH and FDA grants, Dr. Fajgenbaum has published over 100 scientific papers in leading journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He has been profiled by The New York Times, GMA, TODAY, and Forbes 30 Under 30 and awarded the 2016 Atlas Award along with then VP Biden, 2022 NDRI Service to Science Award alongside Nobel Laureates Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, and 2023 Philadelphia Citizen of the Year award. Dr. Fajgenbaum earned a BS from Georgetown University, MSc from the University of Oxford, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, and MBA from The Wharton School. Beyond his coursework, David was a Division I college quarterback and founded and led a national grief support network during college and graduate school.
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How nearly dying helped me discover my own cure (and many more)
How nearly dying helped me discover my own cure (and many more)
Speech Topics
Download TopicsUnlocking the Hidden Potential of Every Approved Drug: How AI, data, and collaboration can revolutionize drug repurposing.
The Relentless Pursuit of Hope and Healing: A deeply personal and inspiring story about surviving against all odds and leading change.
Building a Global Research Network: The Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and the playbook for collective impact.
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