Drawing, Gene Therapy
date: label: date made
content: 1991
name: label: artist
content: DeSilva, Ashanthi
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: In September 1990, four-year-old Ashanti DeSilva became the first patient to participate in the National Institutes of Health’s first human gene therapy trial. She made this colored pencil drawing, depicting her experience undergoing apheresis for her treatment, on October 9, 1991.
label: Description (Brief)
content: To learn more about the first NIH gene therapy trials, see object
label: Description (Brief)
content: 1999.0008.01, the blood cell separator.
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content: Accession File
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, North Olmsted
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3185.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3185.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1993.3185
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Name
content: drawing, gene therapy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: crayon (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: orange (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: periwinkle (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23 cm x 30.2 cm; 9 1/16 in x 11 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 12 in x 9 in; .3175 cm x 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm