Lorenzo Michael Murphy Odone
May 29th,1978 - May 30, 2008

American adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) patient whose parents, Augusto and Michaela Odone, sought a treatment for the disease. He was also the subject of the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil which starred Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon.

With the limited research available, his father Augusto invented Lorenzo's oil, which is the first agent to have shown therapeutic benefit in halting the destruction of the myelin sheathing of nerves caused by this disease. His parents' quest for a treatment for Lorenzo was depicted in the 1992 film Lorenzo's Oil.

Lorenzo died at his home in Fairfax, Virginia on May 30, 2008, one day after his 30th birthday, with his father Augusto and his life long friend Omouri Hassane at his side. He had come down with aspiration pneumonia after getting food stuck in his lungs. He began bleeding heavily, and before an ambulance reached his home he was dead.

He had lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted and was the oldest survivor of ALD

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