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Family of Henrietta Lacks files new lawsuit over cells harvested without her consent​

August 10, 2023

BALTIMORE (AP) — Just over a week after Henrietta Lacks’ descendants settled a lawsuit against a biotech company they accused of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations, the family’s attorneys have filed another claim against a different corporation.

The new lawsuit, which targets California-based biopharmaceutical company Ultragenyx, was filed Thursday in Baltimore federal court, the same venue as the recently settled case. Lawyers for the family have said they plan to bring a series of lawsuits against various entities that continue to reap rewards from the racist medical system that took advantage of

The complaint says Ultragenyx has made a fortune by using HeLa cells to develop gene therapy products.


“Medical research has a long, troubled racial history,” attorneys for the family wrote. “The exploitation of Henrietta Lacks represents the unfortunately common struggle experienced by Black people throughout American history. Indeed, Black suffering has fueled innumerable medical progress and profit, without just compensation or recognition.”

A spokesperson for Ultragenyx didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment Thursday evening.

The lawsuit filed Thursday claims Ultragenyx leadership failed to seek permission from Lacks’ descendants after realizing where HeLa cells came from.
“Ultragenyx’s choice to continue utilizing HeLa cells despite the cell line’s origin and the concrete harm it inflicts on the Lacks family can only be understood as a choice to embrace a legacy of racial injustice embedded in the U.S. research and medical systems,” attorney Ben Crump said in a statement. “Like anyone else, Black people have the right to control their bodies.”
Crump, a civil rights attorney, has become well known for representing victims of police violence and calling for racial justice, especially in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. After the recent settlement, Crump said the family was planning to file more lawsuits

 

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introduced a bill to posthumously award Henrietta Lacks the Congressional Gold Medal, recognizing her enduring legacy in medical science and her pivotal role in some of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the past century.

U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) announced the Henrietta Lacks Congressional Gold Medal Act on Monday. The legislation honors Lacks for the cells that were taken from her without her consent during cancer treatment in 1951, and later became the first immortal human cell line. The discovery, though unknown to Lacks or her family at the time, reshaped modern medicine.

The Lacks family, who only learned about the use of her cells decades after her death, welcomed the news.

“This Mother’s Day has even more meaning,” said Alfred Lacks Carter Jr., Lacks’ grandson. “I applaud the introduction of this Act in the spirit of my mother, Deborah Lacks, who worked tirelessly to ensure that her mother, Henrietta Lacks, was celebrated as the Mother of Modern Medicine,”

Veronica Robinson, Lacks’ great-granddaughter and senior adviser to the HELA100 initiative, noted the timing of the bill coincides with what would have been Lacks’ 105th birthday.

“Our Hennie’s contributions to science, medicine and research have saved lives and created cures,” Robinson said. “... As the next generation, we are reclaiming her story to make certain the world recognizes her impact.”

The Congressional Gold Medal, if awarded, be one of few formal acknowledgments of Lacks’ contribution. The medal has served as Congress’s highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions since the American Revolution.

"During a time in our country where the Trump administration shamefully seeks to erase Black history from the American story, the legacies of Black history makers like Mrs. Lacks must be uplifted, and we must continue to deliver our message back to President Trump: you erase it, we will replace it," Mfume said.