Ending Disease
Directed by: Joe Gantz Released: 2020 (educational) Year of Production: 2019 Running Time: 122 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Physical and Mental Health, Science and Nature Ending Disease is a documentary series that follows patients and their doctors in the first generation of FDA-approved clinical trials for stem cell, CAR-T cell, and antibody therapies. Granted unprecedented access to groundbreaking trials taking place at top research facilities in the United States, our crew filmed through the duration of ten clinical trials that used regenerative medicine to treat brain cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, HIV, spinal cord injury, eye disease, and SCID.Over the course of four episodes, the patients put their hope and their faith in the trials, and we witness as their illnesses are profoundly transformed by pioneering treatments. Meanwhile, the scientists on the forefront of medical science must fight for