First In Human
TV Show · Documentary

Narrated and co-executive produced by award-winning actor Jim Parsons (`The Big Bang Theory'), this three-part documentary is an unprecedented look inside the Clinical Center -- or Building 10 -- of the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C. Four diverse patients are followed as they participate in a `First in Human' trial -- the initial time when a new therapy is tested in humans. They are cared for at no expense and receive no guarantee that they will benefit from the care -- all in the name of advancing medicine. Because of the risky nature of the trials in Building 10, doctors there can often only partner with patients who have exhausted all the standard options modern medicine has to offer.

2017 · 1h 23m
Starring Jim Parsons
Director John Hoffman

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Admission
    Four patients with serious illnesses arrive at the NIH's Building 10 to enter potentially groundbreaking clinical trials and rest their hopes on the brilliant minds that work there.
    1h 23 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Treatment
    Bo Cooper recovers from a near-death experience, Anita McAlister weighs her treatment options, and patients Lucy Wiese and Deidra Williams receive highly experimental bone marrow transplants.
    1h 23 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Prognosis
    Bo Cooper starts another round of experimental therapy for his end-stage leukaemia. Lucy Weise gets the results of her transplant and sickle cell patient Deidra gets good news.
    1h 22 min

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Cast & Crew

  • Jim Parsons
    Narrator
  • John Hoffman
    Director
  • John Hoffman
    Producer
  • Dyllan McGee
    Producer
  • B‌W
    Beth Wichterich
    Producer
  • Michael Epstein
    Producer
  • Jim Parsons
    Producer
  • Todd Spiewak
    Producer
  • E‌N
    Eric Norsoph
    Producer

About

First In Human

Documentary

Narrated and co-executive produced by award-winning actor Jim Parsons (`The Big Bang Theory'), this three-part documentary is an unprecedented look inside the Clinical Center -- or Building 10 -- of the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C. Four diverse patients are followed as they participate in a `First in Human' trial -- the initial time when a new therapy is tested in humans. They are cared for at no expense and receive no guarantee that they will benefit from the care -- all in the name of advancing medicine. Because of the risky nature of the trials in Building 10, doctors there can often only partner with patients who have exhausted all the standard options modern medicine has to offer.

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Discovery
Released
2017
© 2017 Discovery Communications Inc.

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