The human trial / produced by Kristin Lesko ; produced by Jonathan Formica ; produced by Lisa Hepner ; directed by Lisa Hepner & Guy Mossman ; Bum Pancreas, LLC.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mossman, Guy, director.

Hepner, Lisa, director, producer, screenwriter.

Formica, Jonathan, producer.

Lesko, Kristin, producer.

Film Platform, film distributor.

Bum Pancreas (Firm), production company.

Ro*Co Films Educational (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diabetics.

Diabetes--Treatment.

Diabetes.

Diabetes--Research.

Clinical trials--United States.

Clinical trials.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Sausalito, CA : Ro*Co Films, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that, shockingly, kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial -- only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything to be first. More than a decade in the making, the first-person, verité film is about science, but it's also an emotional, multilayered quest that transcends the genre. It's about believing that the good of the many outweigh the good of the few. It's about innovating in ways we didn't think possible.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed September 16, 2022).

OCLC:

1347494828