Wolfe is Writer-Director of this Harpo Films drama in association with Your Face Oprah Winfrey, Carla Gardini, Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi and Lydia Dean Pilcher. Rebecca Skloot is a co-executive producer of the film with executive producers The politics, ethics, racism and research surrounding the death of Henrietta LacksĪnd the Lacks’ family struggle to correct the injustice surrounding the use of herĬells. On Saturday, April 22, at 8PM EST, HBO will debut The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, based on the bestseller by Rebecca Skloot. School of Medicine as Emeritus Physician Scientist and Professor of Obstetrics andīronze Statue of Henrietta Lacks located in the National Center for Primary Care at Pattillo remains intrinsic to the fabric of Morehouse The HeLa Women’s Health Conference recently celebrated Of Medicine, in honor of Henrietta Lacks and often invited members of the Lacks family Pattillo began hosting a Women’s Health Conference at Morehouse School Maintained in continuous culture, and CaSki and DoT, of cervical origin. His own cell lines, BeWo, the first human trophoblastic endocrine cell type to be
His research was inspired by his early exposure to HeLa cells and he eventually developed The Medallion of the International Trophoblast Society for his stem cell research. Residency program was established during this same period. Of Obstetrics and Gynecology of MSM from 1996 to 1998. Pattillo, a certified ObstetricianĪnd Gynecologist and Gynecologic Oncologist served as the interim Chair of the Department Wisconsin, he eventually transitioned his laboratory and his passion for the HeLaĬell scientific potential to Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), bringing along hisĮnduring close relationship with the Lacks Family. Pattillo’s tenure at John Hopkins University and the Medical College of Roland Anthony Pattillo, Professor Emeritus Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,Īfter Dr. This experience would ultimately birth her bestselling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written in 2010.ĭr. Rebecca Skloot, for him to facilitate the introduction that led to her interviewing In fact it took several phone conversations between he and author, Previously unmarked grave and emerged as a champion for and gatekeeper to access to Pattillo’s interest in and compassion for the Lacksįamily led him to become well acquainted with them. Gey, the researcher who was able to grow Lacks’ cells from a biopsy when she was being Roland Athony Pattillo was the only African American at Johns Hopkins University to study under Dr. Roland Pattillo: Champion of HeLa & Henrietta Lacksĭr. However recognition of her involuntary donation to science would remain secret untilĭr. Henrietta Lacks’ immortal cells would change the face of medicine forever. Health benefits and enormous economic returns to Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical In more than 80,000 scientific publications, break-through research in cancer and Variations of HeLa cells are used in research all over the world, resulting These cells became the basis for the first immortal human cell line,
SurgeonsĪt Johns Hopkins harvested cells from her tumor without her permission or the knowledge Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951 at the untimely age of 31.
The irony is that immortalityĭoes in fact exist and it was discovered in the least likely of places-the cells ofĪn African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks who lived in the early part of the Of elixirs and fountains of youth, promising immortality to all who drink from them.Ĭountless swashbuckling stories of adventure and heroism have been written and producedįor the Silver Screen chronicling these men and women and their journeys to the remote,ĭangerous and mostly imaginary locations around the world. Toggle left nav The Instrumental and Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksĮxplorers and adventure-seekers have roamed the globe, often to their peril, in search
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