First In Human

2017
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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 Admission
11/18/17
Season-only
Four patients with serious illness arrive at NIH's Building 10. In one last hope to be cured, they enter potentially ground-breaking clinical trials.
2 Treatment
11/25/17
Season-only
Leukaemia patient Bo's reaction to experimental treatment almost killed him. Will he try it one more time? And seven-year-old Lucy gets an experimental bone marrow transplant.
3 Prognosis
12/2/17
Season-only
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.

About this show

Narrated by Jim Parsons, FIRST IN HUMAN takes viewers inside the crucial beginning phase of scientific research. The powerful series follows four diverse patients as they participate in a “First in Human” trial – the initial time when a new therapy is tested in humans.