Object Details
- artist
- DeSilva, Ashanthi
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- To learn more about the first NIH gene therapy trials, see object
- 1999.0008.01, the blood cell separator.
- Source:
- Accession File
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1991
- ID Number
- 1993.3185.01
- catalog number
- 1993.3185.01
- nonaccession number
- 1993.3185
- Object Name
- drawing
- drawing, gene therapy
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- crayon (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- orange (overall color)
- red (overall color)
- yellow (overall color)
- periwinkle (overall color)
- brown (overall color)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 23 cm x 30.2 cm; 9 1/16 in x 11 7/8 in
- overall: 1/8 in x 12 in x 9 in; .3175 cm x 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: Ohio, North Olmsted
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Biotechnology and Genetics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1147997
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-ce3a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
