The Human Trial

2022

Action / Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 99% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 99% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 77 77

clinical trials diabetes stem cell research

Plot summary

In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills over five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers got unprecedented access to a clinical trial – only the sixth ever stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate decade-long journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything for everybody else. The Human Trial peels back the headlines to show the sweat, passion, and sacrifice behind every breakthrough cure. For the millions of patients suffering around the world, these breakthroughs can’t come fast enough.

Director

Lisa Hepner Photo
Lisa Hepner

Top cast

Lisa Hepner Photo
Lisa Hepner as Self
Guy Mossman Photo
Guy Mossman as Self
Maren Badger Photo
Maren Badger as Self
Eugene Brandon Photo
Eugene Brandon as Self
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1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MEMangan 7 / 10

Science is hard. Clinical trials are even harder.

The process of science, even at the level of benchwork in the lab, is full of ups and downs. Highs and lows. Things that work. Things that don't work.But you have to accept that sometimes the things that don't work teach you a lot as well. Success is hard won, and it is not quick.Adding in the variable of having to test your ideas in actual humans--that's a huge challenge and carries real risk. Yest there are some incredibly brave humans who are willing to take those risks to provide us with knowledge for the future.This film offers a look at what that process is like from the clinical trial patient's perspectives. And it shows that their efforts are just as important at those of the researchers--maybe even more.Huge respect to those who take the chances to help us learn things and move forward. It really is a brave choice. Thank you.
Reviewed by brionh 8 / 10

It's Very Good, You Should Watch it, However....

I've been type 1 Diabetic since I was 2 years old. I am about to turn 49. The documentary is very well done, the 93 minutes flew by, I was engaged the whole time, and left me wanting more. Seeing Lisa at the very beginning open Loop/FreeAPS on her iPhone, lets those that know: This is going to be good. "We are not waiting".I understand that the point of this documentary, and even the name of it, is about following 2 people through a human trial, the researchers that are trying to cure the disease, the hope of fellow suffers of the disease, and ultimately, a cure from this human trial.However.I just feel disappointed. The ultimate question is: "Where are we with a cure for diabetes". Viacyte or not. This human trial, or others. I am not sure how or why Brian Shelton wasn't interviewed or mentioned in this. I am not sure why it wasn't mentioned at all that Viacyte was bought out by Vertex, other than maybe that news came later than the final edit of this film, but still could have somehow had a mention on an end screen.We are farther ahead in curing Type 1 Diabetes than the ending of this documentary would suggest. I get why Viacyte was the sole focus, but there are so many more equally, if not better than, promising leads from other biotech companies as well. To name just a few off the top of my head, Itolerance, Sernova, and especially Vertex: who had the first in human, lab grown, can be mass produced, islet cells, put into Brian Shelton, and worked at a
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