A Brief Introduction to the Legacy Museum: The Patient, the Project, and Partnership

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/25/can-the-immortal-cells-of-henrietta-lacks-sue-for-their-own-rights/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c6fcecd282e3

Source: Legacy Museum

The Project of Mass Producing and Distributing Ms. Lacks's Cells

• Found out Ms. Lacks's cells could reproduce interminably outside her body
• Took her cells without her permission
• Sent to several sites (including Tuskegee University)
• Mass produced Ms. Lacks's cells
• Sent globally without viral, microbial, or cellular contamination
• Used cells as the alternate primary host cell source for the polio vaccine

The Partnership

• Tuskegee University is in partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
• The partnership uses 8 components to implement its work
  1. Scientific research
  2. Research training and career development
  3. Cancer education
  4. Community outreach
  5. Recruitment
  6. Planning and evaluation
  7. Biostatistics
  8. Bioethics
• Tuskegee University researchers continue to use Ms. Lacks's cells to find cures for different cancers

Sources:
tuskegee.edu
msm.edu/
cancercenter.uab.edu/

• John A. Kenney was the second Medical Director at the Tuskegee University Hospital
• The Bioethics building is dedicated to John A. Kenney
• The current facility you are actually standing in used to be a hospital!
• The hospital was called The John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital

Keep in mind, that all of the exhibits you see today are connected together