Michael Hund, CEO, EB Research Partnership

Michael Hund is the CEO of EB Research Partnership (EBRP), a trailblazing medical research organization focused on curing Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a life-threatening genetic skin disease. Under his leadership EBRP has accelerated the landscape from 2 to over 40 clinical trials and via their award winning venture philanthropy methodology funded the first FDA approved treatment for EB in 2023, the first ever topical gene therapy. In Michael’s tenure, EBRP’s innovative business model has garnered recognition from Harvard Business School, Yale University, MIT, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Rolling Stone, and Forbes. With a background at the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, he has dedicated his career to transforming healthcare.

Michael received his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Yale University, CORe credential from Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of the MIT Solve Horizon Innovation Award, Social Innovations Journal Leadership Award, Top 100 Magazine Innovators, and Authority Magazine’s Social Innovators. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Sarah and four daughters.

Episode Transcript

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You imagine being a parent. You'venever heard the words epidermalysis belosa before.
Our big, bold, audacious goalat EBRP is to cure EB by the
end of this decade and pioneer anew innovative business model that can apply to
the four hundred million people on thisplanet with a rare disease. You know,

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it's hard to compare, but it'sparticularly one of the more devastating disease
I've worked with. Skin is thelargest organ in the body, and for
those born with EB, the skinjust simply doesn't work. The good news
is eb's a monogenetic disease, whichmeans it's caused by one genetic mutation that
we know. So that gives ushope, courage, optimism to charge forward
with endless urgency to reach that targetof a cure by twenty thirty. So

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