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Wendy Finerman, Jonathan E. Lim’s City Arts Developing Medical Thriller ‘Chasing My Cure’
EXCLUSIVE: Biotech entrepreneur Jonathan E. Lim, M.D.’s production and financing company City Hill Arts and Forrest Gump Oscar winner Wendy Finerman are producing the feature take of Chasing My Cure. The project is based on the true story of David Fajgenbaum, a former star quarterback-turned-medical student who began a furious charge to save his own […]
The story centers on Fajgenbaum, once a beast-like Georgetown quarterback and now a brilliant medical student, who is struck down with a fatal disease and given only six months to live. Dr. Fajgenbaum and his team at Every Cure and the University of Pennsylvania were recently chronicled in the New York Times for their work using AI to repurpose existing medications to treat rare diseases. But audiences will connect with the unwavering determination to live, and the love and ingenuity that helped make it possible, that defines David’s story.
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