First Clinical Trial Led by UT Southwestern Researchers (IMAGE)

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First Clinical Trial Led by UT Southwestern Researchers

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Dr. Abhimanyu Garg examines Dwanna Swan, a generalized lipodystrophy patient whom he has been treating for 14 years. The drug that Mrs. Swan has been taking as part of a clinical trial, metreleptin, was approved by the FDA today for treatment of this rare disease.

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