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Nature Medicine 13, 1124 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1007-1124a

Poor trial design leaves gene therapy death a mystery

Meredith Wadman1

  1. Washington, DC

The gene therapy trial during which a 36-year-old Illinois woman died in July was inappropriately designed, experts said at the 17 September meeting of the government panel investigating her death.Researchers affiliated with Seattle-based Targeted Genetics injected a gene therapy treatment into Jolee Mohr's right knee first in February and again on 2 July.

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