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As shown in the new documentary, The Human Trial, there are brave new frontiers being explored to help find cures for type 1 diabetes. As we enter an inflection point in cure research—a moment of acceleration that allows scientists to develop in one year what used to take 10—funding research and the development of medical cures is more crucial than ever.

The Human Trial is a gripping new documentary about the brave men and women who volunteer to test a radical new treatment for type 1 diabetes.

In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills more than five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes, the filmmakers were given unprecedented, real-time access to a clinical trial—only the sixth-ever embryonic stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate journey with the patients and scientists who put themselves on the line to be first.

The Human Trial peels back the headlines to show the sweat, passion and sacrifice poured into every medical breakthrough. It interweaves the stories of the patients who have borne the physical and financial burdens of type 1 diabetes with the researchers who epitomize the struggle of innovating cures. Director Lisa Hepner—whose own type 1 diabetes fuels her search for a cure —becomes the bridge between these two worlds. The narrative arc is the clinical trial itself. Visit TheHumanTrial.com to learn more.

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• All donations submitted by donors through this site will be donated to JDRF, for use in connection with JDRF’s mission to fund research regarding type 1 diabetes.

How to Watch

• Coming to Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and other digital platforms on November 11, 2022. Visit thehumantrial.com/watch for more information.

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• Interested in bringing THE HUMAN TRIAL to your campus or community, either in-person or virtually? Find out here.

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• Support The Human Trial and check out the awesome merch tied to the film here.

Press

• The New York Times: The Long, Long Wait for a Diabetes Cure
• The diabetes cure: A Century after Banting and Best’s ‘message of hope,’ science is actually close
• Vic Report Cover Story: Lisa Hepner and The Human Trial
• ‘Human Trial’ Film Follows ‘Disruptive Research’ Toward a Diabetes Cure
• More here.

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