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Patient Receives First-Ever Gene Therapy For Parkinson's At New York Weill Cornell Medical Center

Yahoo News:

Surgeons at NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first gene therapy for Parkinson's disease on a 55-year-old New York man on Monday, August 18. The historic surgery, which also marked the first-ever in vivo gene therapy in the brain, was part of a Phase I clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration in October 2002.