Mot-clé Medical Breakthrough

L'histoire vraie du médecin qui a considéré qu'il était immoral de ne pas chercher un médicament qui guérirait syphillis.

Breakthrough raconte la quête d'un scientifique renégat pour trouver un remède au cancer, la maladie qui a tué sa mère. Le Texan Jim Allison est lauréat du prix Nobel 2018 pour avoir découvert comment inciter le système immunitaire d'un patient cancéreux à vaincre sa maladie, mais pendant des décennies, il a mené une lutte souvent solitaire contre le scepticisme douloureux de l'establishment médical.

The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-packed with passengers heads for Aomori from devastated Tokyo. On the train is Takahara Miki and her sister Sachi. Miki and Sachi are the daughters of a wealthy landlord living in a village in the Tsugaru area in Aomori prefecture, but they have been living in Tokyo since before the war to attend school. After seeing her village does not have a doctor, Miki is determined to become a rural doctor.

With unprecedented access to the halls of Building 10, First In Human reveals for the first time how the medical breakthroughs of tomorrow make their way out of the hi-tech research laboratories and into the hands of our world’s medical professionals. The series explores the lives of the doctors, researchers, and patients who together make progress possible in this cutting-edge testing ground.