abstract:Jesse Gelsinger (June 18, 1981 - September 17, 1999) was the first person publicly identified as having died in a clinical trial for gene therapy.
In the most notorious gene therapy disaster, teenager JesseGelsinger died after being injected with a gene therapy treatment at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.
Most prominently, teenager JesseGelsinger died from multiple organ failure a few days after receiving a massive dose of virus-based gene therapy in a trial at the University of Pennsylvania.