EMAIL DETAILS

Howard D. Krein MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Div. of Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery
Dept. of Otolaryngology/ Head and Surgery
Thomas Jefferson University
215-955-6760

StartUp Health
Chief Medical Officer
Howard@startuphealth.com

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Peter Kash <Peter@kashfam.com>
> Date: May 5, 2016 at 1:09:48 PM EDT
> To: "howard@startuphealth.com" <howard@startuphealth.com>
> Cc: Steven Krein <steve@startuphealth.com>
> Subject: great speaking
>
> Howard,
>
> Great talking with you last night as always, (hope you enjoy my newest book it truly took 5 years of research and sometimes waking up Donna at 2am while researching on the computer). It is exciting doing book tours around the worl; “For Knowledge that is not shared is simply Knowledge but when it is shared it becomes Wisdom.” First quote in Chapter One, I know you probably liked the Cliff Notes J
>
> Howard, I was holding back for several months until I had data back and was going to share at Andie’s Bat Mitzvah to you and Steve that in honor/memory of your brother-in-law Beau instead of planting another tree in Israel in his memory I wanted to do something special for you for I knew how close you were.
>
> As you know for 25 plus years I have been funding and helping develop a host of compounds for the war on cancer. Recently, I am involved in a couple of companies that are in various stages of drug development for GBM. One of them an early but promising drug from Israel is tackling the EGF receptor which interestingly targets such cancers as Vulva, Penile, Lung as well as GBM. For one of the animal trials (data back in June) will hopefully lead to an IND next year we are coding “009”. The significance it is numeric value is that Beau corresponds with the Hebrew letters בוא ( a bet, vav, and aleph which together equals 9). Based on Gematria or Kabbalistic numerology, for example the word for Life in Hebrew is Chai which corresponds to numerical value “18”.
>
> Interestingly the Amidah perhaps after the Shema is the most versed prayer said three times daily has various blessings; the 9th one is the prayer “seeking blessing from God on all humanity and earth itself, a year of good bounty for food”. Something truly beautiful, for like Beau from what I have read, sacrificed so much for others well-being before considering his own well-being.
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> We are actually coding other numerical values in other trials for others we know who have passed fighting this dreadful disease and for sure helps the researchers as well as the families in this long and winding road in finding cures.
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> I will keep you informed as this trial and others progress; I am helping another scientist here in the US using stems cells to fight GBM and he has excellent preliminary results in humans. What is fascinating today unlike from 25 years ago is that all the scientists from competitive companies and labs speak openly with one another sometimes with or without CDA’s abetting and encouraging one another with no ego, to find a treatment/cure. This is what keeps my faith in humanity going.
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> First beer is on you at the Bat Mitzvah, the second on me J
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> Big Hug,
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> Peter
> =2