In 2010, Dr. David Fajgenbaum was a third-year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania when suddenly, his health took an unexpected turn. Over the course ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- David Fajgenbaum went from a standout athlete at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh to a successful young doctor. He even has a business degree from the prestigious Wharton School of the ...

David Fajgenbaum was 25 years old the first time he almost died. He was in his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. His goal was to become an oncologist — an ambition born ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Brought to the brink of death five times, a local doctor has spent the past 10 years spearheading the international search for the cure to his own rare disease right here in ...

David Fajgenbaum's life went into overtime the moment a priest read his last rites in November 2010. At least that's how the Penn Medicine immunologist views his last nine years. That belief has ...

Tredici (WPVI) -- What is your relationship with death? In this installment of Overheard at Tredici, we talk with a remarkable individual who's made it his life's work. In the summer of 2010, ...

Dr. David Fajgenbaum has spent much of the last decade searching for a cure for his own rare disease. The Penn Medicine immunologist has slowed that pursuit in recent months to join the worldwide ...

David Fajgenbaum, Penn medical and Wharton MBA graduate, recently published his book "Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action". (Photo from David Fajgenbaum) A professor in the ...

Dr. David Fajgenbaum knows firsthand how using a repurposed drug can save lives: He found an existing medication that rescued his own life from an immunity disorder he acquired in medical school. Now ...

Perelman School of Medicine graduate and Penn Medicine immunologist David Fajgenbaum was recently awarded the John Scott Award, one of the oldest science awards in the United States. The John Scott ...