Feb 28 2023, 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, Room 2264, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Join the Immunotherapeutics Research Cluster for a screening of In Good Company: The Human Trial.
In 2011, filmmakers Lisa Hepner and Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes, the married couple secured unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial in San Diego — only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first.