BALTIMORE — Design plans were released this week for a 34,000-square-foot building near the medical campus of Johns Hopkins University that will be named after Henrietta Lacks.
Lacks was a Black woman from Baltimore County whose famous ‘HeLa’ cells were taken without her consent at Johns Hopkins in 1951.
The schematics were revealed Thursday at a meeting of the Urban Design & Architecture Advisory Panel, a city board that oversees and approves significant development projects in Baltimore.
