Geeta Anand

The book that inspired the movie, Extraordinary Measures , starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, and Keri Russell, The Cure by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is the remarkable true story of one father’s determination to find a cure for his terminally sick children even if it meant he had to build a business from scratch to do so. With three beautiful children, a new house, and financial security, John and Aileen Crowley were on top of the world—until their two youngest children, fifteen-month-old Megan and five-month-old Patrick, were diagnosed with Pompe disease and given only months to live. Refusing to accept a death sentence, John quit his financial consultant job and invested his life savings in a biotechnology start-up to research the disease and find a cure. Battling scientific setbacks, conflict of interest accusations, and business troubles, John and Aileen would be tested to their limits as they valiantly fought, and succeeded, in finding revolutionary new treatment for the disease—offering hope to Megan, Patrick, and the many children and families affected by Pompe disease around the world.

When John and Aileen Crowley’s two children were diagnosed with a fatal muscular disorder, their perfect world crashed. So rare was Pompe disease that no drug company had yet produced a cure. Determined to find scientists who could develop an enzyme that would keep his children alive, John invested himself and his savings in a biotech start-up. The company went on to make medical and business history, but the struggle to save his children was far from over. Powerful, gripping and inspiring, The Cure is the story of a couple who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

The Cure

Cure