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Jesse Gelsinger

Jesse Gelsinger was the first person publicly identified as having died in a clinical trial for gene therapy. Gelsinger suffered from ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, an X-linked genetic disease of the liver, the symptoms of which include an... Wikipedia
Born: June 18, 1981
Died: September 17, 1999 (age 18 years), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA