Augusta University Honors the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
January 05, 2018
January 05, 2018
AUGUSTA, Georgia, Jan. 5 -- Augusta University issued the following news release:
In honor of Black History Month, Augusta University has partnered with Paine College and the Columbia County Library to host several events to celebrate the legacy of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in modern medicine.
Lacks, a poor tobacco farmer, changed medical research in 1951 when cells from her cervical cancer biop . . .
In honor of Black History Month, Augusta University has partnered with Paine College and the Columbia County Library to host several events to celebrate the legacy of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in modern medicine.
Lacks, a poor tobacco farmer, changed medical research in 1951 when cells from her cervical cancer biop . . .