‘The Human Trial’: Filming Diabetes Cure Research in Action
Clinical Trial News Wednesday, August 28th, 2013Diabetesmine: August 27, 2013
Sometimes, all the latest headlines on steps towards curing diabetes can seem like a broken record — just researchers crying wolf about how big and bad their science projects are.
Fellow type 1 Lisa Hepner in California gets that, and as someone living with diabetes for more than 20 years, she often agrees. But the progress in the past few years involving islet cell transplantation and encapsulation still gives her hopeful goose bumps, and that hopeful feeling is what’s behind the feature documentary she’s creating about the research race to find a cure, The Human Trial, which she’s filming with her husband, Guy Mossman.
She knows these projects don’t always produce the desired results, but hopes her film will make type 1 is better understood and recognized as a condition that needs more funding and public attention. Read More
