A nonprofit enterprise devoted to discovering the existing drugs that can treat rare diseases that otherwise have no treatment.
Now includes use of Artificial Intelligence.
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.
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How does Every Cure demonstrate innovation’s fundamentals?
- How does it represent “change by way of value?”
- What value does Every Cure offer?
- What resources does it leverage?
- 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 tags would you give Every Cure to highlight its innovation variations?