Penn Medicine Researcher Who Found Treatment For His Own Rare Disease Hopes To Find Treatment For COVID-19

By Stephanie Stahl, CBS Philadelphia

September 8, 2021

With the growing number of COVID-19 cases, there’s a big push to find better treatments, which has involved a lot of trial and error. Researchers at Penn Medicine are playing a key part in figuring out what works and what doesn’t.

At the heart of the CORONA Project is a doctor who discovered an unknown treatment for his own rare disease, and he now hopes to do the same with COVID-19.

“This is the list of drugs that look most promising,” Penn Medicine Dr. David Fajgenbaum said.

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