The Lacks estate filed a suit against Ultragenyx, a California firm whose cell and gene therapy operations are concentrated in Massachusetts, in a federal court in Maryland on Thursday.
with Thermo Fisher Scientific over the use of their ancestor's cells, Henrietta Lacks' descendants have sued a second biopharma with a presence in Massachusetts: Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.
The Lacks estate filed a suit against Ultragenyx , a California firm whose cell and gene therapy operations are concentrated in Massachusetts, in a federal court in Maryland on Thursday. The family members allege that Ultragenyx has"made a fortune" from products made using Lacks' cells, which were taken from their ancestor, a Black woman who was treated for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s, without her knowledge or consent during the treatments.
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