David Fajgenbaum

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is co-Founder & President of Every Cure and one of the youngest faculty members ever to receive tenure at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A physician-scientist and patient battling a deadly illness, he discovered a repurposed treatment that saved his own life and others—a story he chronicled in his national bestselling memoir ‘Chasing My Cure‘, which is being adapted into a film by Forrest Gump producer Wendy Finerman. Dr. Fajgenbaum has since advanced 13 more repurposed treatments for cancers and rare diseases and co-founded the nonprofit Every Cure to unlock more hidden cures from existing medicines. Every Cure has received over $190M from ARPA-H and TED’s Audacious Project and is on a mission to treat 15-25 devastating diseases with repurposed drugs by 2030. Dr. Fajgenbaum has published 100+ scientific papers in leading journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine and been profiled by The New York Times, Good Morning America, and TODAY. He has been honored with the Atlas Award alongside then-VP Joe Biden, 2023 Philadelphia Citizen of the Year Award, and 2025 TIME100 Health list of “the world’s most influential people in health” and TIME100 Next List of “the leaders shaping the future.” Prior to Every Cure, Dr. Fajgenbaum founded a nonprofit for grieving college students and a nonprofit to cure Castleman disease. Dr. Fajgenbaum earned a BS from Georgetown University, MSc from the University of Oxford, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, and MBA from Wharton.