Jesse Gelsinger

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A young patient who died at 18 during an early gene therapy trial in 1999 at the University of Pennsylvania, due to a severe immune response to the adenovirus vector used to correct an enzyme defect in his liver.

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A young patient who died at 18 during an early gene therapy trial in 1999 at the University of Pennsylvania, due to a severe immune response to the adenovirus vector used to correct an enzyme defect in his liver.