STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Donavon Decker knew a gene therapy experiment wouldn’t help him. To help others, he still said yes Long before there was Sarepta's gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, there was Donavon Decker and his offer to test a gene therapy. https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/gene-therapy-pioneer-donavon-decker-remembered/ statnews.com