Told He Would Die, He Found His Own Cure and Now He’s Saving Others

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, an associate professor of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, survived multiple life-threatening episodes of Castleman disease while he was a student in the Perelman School of Medicine by identifying a drug already on the market that could help treat his disease. “I’m not supposed to be here,” Fajgenbaum told CNN’s Sanjay Gupta. Fajgenbaum is now using AI to uncover new uses for other already FDA-approved drugs that could be sitting on your local pharmacy shelf.