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Stan Crooke

Stan Crooke

Physician-scientist and pioneer of RNA-targeted antisense medicine; former CEO of Ionis Pharmaceuticals and founder/CEO of the n-Lorem Foundation, developing personalized treatments for ultra-rare diseases.

Sep 25, 2026

On Rare

On Rare

On Rare Innovators: The Dream Merchant. Stan Crooke and the founding of N-Lorem

Sep 25 · 31m

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2:04
introduced me to the joy of
Stan Crooke
Stan CrookeGUEST
2:07
science at the leading edge of science.
Stan Crooke
Stan CrookeGUEST
2:08
I had no idea what real science was and the privilege of being a physician.
Stan Crooke
Stan CrookeGUEST
2:13
Once I was introduced to science and the responsibility of another person's life, everything changed for me.
Stan Crooke
Stan CrookeGUEST
2:19
I knew what I was supposed to do.
Stan Crooke
Stan CrookeGUEST
2:21
I was just finishing medical school and I was on a hematology team and we had a young man referred to us with an abdominal mass.
Stan Crooke
Stan CrookeGUEST
2:29
And the local physician thought it was Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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David RintellHOST
19:01
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