Monument unveiled at Tuskegee University to remember Henrietta Lacks and her impact on polio fight

Tuskegee HeLa Cell Recognition Project monument unveiled at Tuskegee University, Monday, March 11, 2024 – Photo from WAKA Action 8 News

A ceremony was held on campus Monday involving the university, Rotary District 6880 and other sponsors and donors. Rotary International has made polio eradication its worldwide charitable focus.Henrietta Lacks was 30 years old when she entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 to be treated for cervical cancer. She later died, but her cancer cells helped change medicine forever.

At Tuskegee University, its Tuskegee Infantile Paralysis Center was launched in 1940, while across campus at the Carver Research Foundation building, scientists were using HeLa cells to help in what would become Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine.“This research benefited an untold number of individuals all over the world and we are grateful that some of those opportunities were developed here at Tuskegee University,” Tuskegee University President Dr. Charlotte Morris told Action 8 News.

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