Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Credit: Will Kirk BALTIMORE, MD — More than 650 people attended the 15th Henrietta Lacks Memorial ...

Join the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Saturday, Oct. 4, for the 15th anniversary of the Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, honoring the enduring legacy of Henrietta ...

Join the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Saturday, Oct. 4 for the 15th anniversary of the Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, honoring the enduring legacy of Henrietta ...

The Henrietta Marie was an English slave ship that mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West in 1700. It was returning from a trip to Jamaica where 191 slaves were sold. Nearly 300 years later, a ...

Henrietta Lacks's story brings to light the intersection of medical ethics, race and the treatment of marginalized communities in research and healthcare. The keynote speaker for this year's lecture — ...

Henrietta Lacks’ journey from an unknown daughter of Halifax County to a worldwide symbol of medical advancement came full circle Friday with the unveiling of a statue in her honor at South Boston’s ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks can proceed with a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company that uses the Baltimore County woman’s “immortal” cell line to develop medical treatments, a federal judge ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Forever changing the medical industry — a black woman from Roanoke known as “the Mother of Modern Medicine” played a pivotal role in American history. But it’s a name many don’t ...

Dr. Roland Pattillo and his wife Pat O'Flynn Pattillo paid for Henrietta Lacks' permanent headstone, a smooth, substantial block of pink granite. It sits in the shape of a hardcover book. Henrietta ...