Egg Donators Sue State Over Stem-Cell Scandal
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[April 23, 2006]

Egg Donators Sue State Over Stem-Cell Scandal

(Korea Times Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)By Kim Tong-hyung

Two women who donated their eggs to now-disgraced cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk have filed a lawsuit against the state and two medical centers, claiming they had not been informed about potential risks posed by egg retrieval processes.

In the suit filed with the Seoul Central District Court Friday, the donors, including a 20-year-old identified as A, are each seeking 32 million won ($33,600) medical compensation against the state, local fertility clinic Mizmedi Hospital and the Hanyang University Medical Center.



The two hospitals collaborated with Hwang, a gene-scientist formerly employed by Seoul National University (SNU), on his studies on cloned human stem cells, recently exposed as fraudulent.

Civic groups, such as the Korea Women's Association United (KWAU) and the Lawyers for a Democratic Society (Minbyun), plan providing consulting and financial support to the two throughout the trials.



Hwang, once considered among the world's leading cloning experts, was the toast of the science world when he published two separate papers in the U.S. journal ``Science'' in 2004 and 2005, claiming the creation of stem cell lines from cloned human embryos. They would have been world-first achievements if the studies were valid.

Science recently retracted both articles after a SNU investigative panel concluded the studies were fraudulent, saying the stem cells described in the studies did not genetically match with the egg donors.

Hwang, who was fired by SNU last month, is currently under a criminal investigation by the Seoul District Prosecutors' Office, and could be indicted for fraud or embezzlement if it is confirmed he received state research funds based on false accomplishments.

Hwang appealed to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development over SNU's decision to dismiss him as a professor.

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