
In this week’s final episode of First in Human: The Trials of Building 10, the four patients meet with their doctors a final time to discover if their experimental treatments have worked or not. One of them is young Canadian Bo Cooper, a patient of Dr. Terry Fry who heads the Hematologic Malignancies Section in the Pediatric Oncology Branch. Bo came to the NIH complex with his parents Carla and Robert Cooper. At just 20 years of age, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia before a battle lasting several years as he went in and out of remission. Building 10 is the largest...read more