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The definitive account of Michael Milken's lifelong leadership in accelerating medical breakthroughs and transforming public health to provide all of us with longer, healthier, more meaningful lives. An inspirational and hopeful road map for the future. What if humans could speed up the historically slow churn of science--and change the course of history forever? Considered science fiction less than a decade ago, some therapies now available in the clinic are resulting in millions of longer, happier, and healthier lives. Many of these advances can be traced back to Michael Milken and his half century of inspired leadership. Faster Cures combines Milken's personal journey throughout his life with his quest to unravel the mysteries of disease. This helped revolutionize the process of medical research and the impact of public health. His memoir details the history of medicine's advancement from its dark past to its incredibly bright future, and explains how the field of medicine will transform society through meteoric progress in research into areas such as cancer, infectious diseases, the brain, the immune system, organ transplants, and CRISPR gene editing. This is the exciting, decades-long story of how Milken marshalled his formidable innovations in finance and remarkable scientific insights to transform medical research and public health. This book celebrates astounding progress in the laboratory and the clinic, sounds the alarm on where the system must change, and lays out a road map for future innovators.