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David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, on Repurposing Cancer Drugs to Treat COVID-19

AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer 2021

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David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, of the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his research efforts to find an already-approved drug that could treat his orphan disease—multicentric Castleman disease—and how that methodology may be applied to the coronavirus and the cytokine storm it can cause (Symposium 5).



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