A nonprofit enterprise devoted to discovering the existing drugs that can treat rare diseases that otherwise have no treatment.
Includes use of Artificial Intelligence.
Note: This Innovation example is not yet developed.
Here’s how it might be developed — as a concrete example of the application of Innovation’s fundamentals:
1. Learn the story behind the example:
- Search online and read the amazing story of Every Cure’s founder, David Fajgenbaum, who “chased his own cure” for a rare disease when he was a medical student and nearly died five times. As a young physician scientist, he founded Every Cure.
- You could begin with this short account from the New York Times.
- Plus this longer, dramatic story, from another article, describing Dr. Fajgenbaum’s own experience of serious illness, failed treatments, and his discovery of a successful treatment for the rare disease that nearly killed him.
2. Draft the story as an offering profile for the gallery:
How does Every Cure demonstrate innovation’s fundamentals?
- Overall, how does it represent “change by way of value?”
- What value does Every Cure offer?
- For what customers?
- What were the key innovation hypotheses for Every Cure, regarding “what could be” and “how it could become”?
- How do hypotheses of science complement, or fit into, Every Cure’s innovation hypotheses?
- What types of knowledge did Every Cure’s innovation hypotheses draw upon? What were the key connections of knowledge that the founder detected?
- What types of fellow innovation practitioners did the Every Cure founder need to join him in making this offering possible?
- What resources does the offering leverage?
- Did the offering’s new value catalyze change? Has the offering been utilized as envisioned?
3. What tags would you give Every Cure to highlight its innovation variations?
4. Identify gaps in the story & try to interview the innovation agent:
- Try to contact the founder for an interview, so that the founder can confirm the account and fill in gaps in the story as it represents a concrete example of Innovation’s unifying concepts (including gaps that you’ve identified in advance).
- Ask the founder for permission to include the profile in a gallery of Innovation examples, for the purpose of supporting learning.