New Way Now: Every Cure launches 9 drug repurposing programs with Google Cloud support

*Featured in this video:* Dr. David Fajgenbaum, Co-founder & President, Every Cure *Executive summary:* There are approximately 4,000 FDA-approved drugs for approximately 4,000 diseases — but there are another roughly 14,000 diseases that do not have treatments. That’s partly because there’s almost no financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to find new use cases for existing drugs. Dr. David Fajgenbaum created Every Cure after his own life-threatening diagnosis revealed both this critical treatment gap and how existing drugs can be repurposed for diseases beyond their intended purpose. Now, the nonprofit is on a mission to save lives with the drugs we already have. *Challenge:* While 4,000 FDA-approved drugs exist for about 4,000 diseases, another 14,000 diseases remain without treatments. That's partly because there's no financial incentive for pharmaceutical companies to find new use cases for existing drugs. Dr. David Fajgenbaum created Every Cure after his own life-threatening diagnosis with Castleman's Disease revealed both this critical treatment gap and how existing drugs can be repurposed for diseases beyond their intended purpose. To make it possible to scale drug repurposing across all 3,000 drugs and 22,000 diseases — which equals 66 million possible combinations — Every Cure uses Google Cloud. *Solution:* While most drug repurposing efforts take a single drug or disease and look for a possible match, Every Cure's MATRIX platform pioneered "computational pharmacophenomics,” which looks at all drugs and all diseases simultaneously and quantifies the strength of evidence between them. Google Cloud — particularly Gemini, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and GPUs — enables this unprecedented approach by scanning across the world's knowledge of all medicines, human biology, and diseases in one unified platform. Gemini supercharges predictions so researchers can focus on the best opportunities, while BigQuery and Cloud Storage ensure seamless work across to