Family´s delight as statue of 医療の 開拓する Henrietta 欠如（する）s is 明かすd
A statue of a 黒人／ボイコット woman whose 独房s led to 決定的な 医療の 前進するs has been 公然と 明かすd for the first time ? on the 70th 周年記念日 of her death.
The artwork of Henrietta 欠如（する）s is the first public sculpture of a 黒人／ボイコット woman made by a 黒人／ボイコット woman in the UK.
It was 明かすd at the University of Bristol by members of Mrs 欠如（する）s’s family who had travelled from the US for the occasion.
欠如（する）s, a young mother born in 1920 in the US, died from an 積極的な form of cervical 癌 in 1951 and 見本s of her 独房s were collected by doctors without her or her family’s knowledge.
It was during 外科 that a 見本 of 独房s was taken from the tumour in Louisiana-born Ms 欠如（する）s’ 団体／死体 before she died in Baltimore, 老年の 31.
It was sent to a 研究室／実験室 where they were 設立する to be the?first living human 独房s ever to 生き残る and multiply outside the human 団体／死体.
研究 on the 独房s led to the polio ワクチン, 遺伝子 mapping and IVF 治療 の中で other 前進するs and resulted in her 存在 指名するd the “mother” of modern 薬／医学.
They became known as HeLa 独房s, taking the first two letters of Henrietta 欠如（する）s’ first and last 指名するs. HeLa 独房s are used in almost every major hospital and science-based university in the world.
It was only in 1975 that by chance the family 設立する out about her 遺産／遺物.
Mrs 欠如（する）s’ son, Lawrence, was joined by her grandson, Alan Wilks and his wife, Pam; granddaughter, Jeri 欠如（する）s-Whye; and 広大な／多数の／重要な-granddaughters Victoria Baptiste and Veronica Robinson for the 明かすing.
Mr 欠如（する）s, who was 17 when his mother died, said: “I want to thank everybody for coming and making me so proud.
“My whole family have come together today to make everything work and not to fight against each other.
“It is something I am very proud of and I am very happy to see this happen. I thought at the beginning it was impossible but now I 設立する out nothing is impossible with my family.
“They do everything they 始める，決める out to do.”
広大な／多数の／重要な-granddaughter Victoria Baptiste said: “It feels like we are coming 十分な circle from losing her the way we did, to show how many 広大な／多数の／重要な things are happening through that 悲劇.”
Veronica Robinson said: “My 広大な／多数の／重要な-grandmother’s 遺産／遺物 doesn’t just live on through the statue, it lives on through every one of her 親族s.
“The significance of having a statue for the first time of an African-American woman by a 黒人／ボイコット woman from Bristol, after a statue of Edward Colston, a former slave 仲買人, （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する, and this statue to go up shows how things have come 十分な circle for our family.”
Artist Helen Wilson-魚の卵, who created the statue, said: “As a child growing up in Bristol there were no statues of 黒人／ボイコット women that I could identify with.
“So, knowing that my children and their grandchildren and 広大な／多数の／重要な grandchildren will be able to see Henrietta’s statue, is just fantastic, 特に at this time when Bristol is starting to 演説（する）／住所 its past.”
Professor Jeremy Tavare, dean of the faculty of 生命科学s at the University of Bristol, said: “Many of our biomedical science 研究員s whose work uses human 独房s have used Henrietta’s 独房s in their 研究 or with 協力者s, 含むing myself. We all 借りがある Henrietta an enormous 負債 of 感謝.
“I am 絶対 delighted to be able to host this beautiful statue of Henrietta on our campus so we can visually honour her 出資／貢献 to important 発見s we have made in Bristol over the last 70 years.
“I feel intensely proud that her family have been so supportive in our doing so. Her statue will do so much to raise her profile with our students and also with children in our 地元の communities.”
