Dec. 12
Dr. Rongxiang Xu, the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" and a renowned life scientist and medical scientist, addresses The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet's initial statement regarding his lawsuit filing last week against the Academy citing Libel and unfair competition… Full article: http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c140/597493.html
Stem cell scientist sues Nobel Prize for medicine
Published: 7 Dec 12 07:31 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/44904/20121207/
A stem cell research pioneer is suing the Swedish assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims it made about this year's winners, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Rongxiang Xu, who describes himself as the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" claims he made a key discovery credited to the Nobel winners a decade before they did.
He filed a lawsuit in California this week against the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, which awarded this year's prize to Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of the UK.
The two scientists won the prize in October for work in cell programming, a research area that has nourished dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease. Specifically, they found that adult cells can be transformed back to an infant state called stem cells, the key ingredient in the vision of regenerative medicine.
In awarding the prize, the Nobel jury said: "Their findings have revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop," and "created new opportunities to study diseases and develop methods for diagnosis and therapy."
Describing his lawsuit as a first against the Nobel assembly, Xu said he discovered "regenerative" cells in 1984 while studying treatments that have benefited 20 million burn victims in 73 countries.
Alleging libel and unfair competition in the suit filed in Orange County, southern California, the Los Angeles based scientist claims his good reputation was defamed by the Nobel Assembly.
Xu claims the Nobel assembly's statement "is false, as he was the scientist who made the discovery a decade earlier, therefore defaming his exemplary reputation," said a statement announcing the lawsuit.
"My main priority for filing this suit was to clarify the Academy's mistaken and misleading statements for the preservation of humanity and future generations," he was cited as saying.
There was no immediate comment to emailed requests for reaction from the Sweden-based Nobel Assembly at
Karolinska Institutet or British Nobel laureate Gurdon.
AFP/The Local/at
Self-Proclaimed Father of Regenerative Cell Science Sues Nobel Prize
A doctor, who claims to have discovered ``human body regenerative restoration science'' filed a suit in Orange County
A scientist filed a lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court against the Nobel Prize organization, claiming this year's award-winners for physiology or medicine were falsely credited with pioneering a form of stem cell research.
Dr. Rongxiang Xu claims to be a founder of ``human body regenerative restoration science.'' His lawsuit, filed Monday, seeks unspecified financial damages and a demand that the Nobel committee rescind some of its statements explaining why John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka won this year's prize for physiology or medicine.
"It should be noted that Dr. Xu has no interest in challenging the Nobel Prize, in discounting the work or discoveries of the scientists who won the prize,'' the lawsuit states. ``Dr. Xu's main interest is in rehabilitating his dominant position as the owner, pioneer of the scientific achievement characterized in the publication at issue.''
Xu claims that in 1984 he ``discovered'' how to regenerate cells, research that he says has benefited 20 million burn victims in 73 countries. The lawsuit was filed in Orange County because the law firm representing Xu -- Ardent Law Group -- is based in Irvine.
Gurdon is credited with a 1962 discovery that a cell's maturation could be reversed. He removed the nucleus from a frog's egg cell and replaced it with a cell from a tadpole, and the modified egg developed into a normal tadpole.
In 2006, Yamanaka discovered how to reprogram mature cells into less- developed cells that could be developed into all types of cells, according to the Nobel committee.
The discoveries have led to the cloning of mammals.``These groundbreaking discoveries have completely changed our view of the development and cellular specialization,'' according to a Nobel Assembly news release announcing the award for Gurdon and Yamanaka.
``Textbooks have been rewritten and new research fields have been established. By reprogramming human cells, scientists have created new opportunities to study diseases and develop methods for diagnosis and therapy.''
Officials with the Nobel Assembly could not be reached for comment on the lawsuit.
- City News Service
PR Newswire
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Rongxiang Xu, the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" and a renowned life scientist and medical scientist, has filed a lawsuit today against The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, a Swedish corporation, aka, Nobelforsamlingen. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet is a body which awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The suit filed in Superior Court of the State of California, Orange County Central Justice Center cites Libel and unfair competition.
Dr. Xu, one of the leading scientists in the world, discovered in 1984 the existence of "regenerative cell" which was confirmed to be keratin-1 positive stem cell after 2000 (US patent 6991813B2), during his study of burn treatments that has benefited 20 million burn victims in 73 countries, claims his good reputation in the community was defamed by a statement published by defendants, The Nobel Assembly, causing damages to Dr. Xu by their conduct. The suit alleges The Nobel Assembly has been successful in garnering media attention for their Nobel Prize announcements in essentially every major news organizations and publications world-wide, proving they can affect the perception of an individual by misreporting information...
Stem cell pioneer sues Nobel Assembly in US
PTI
Los Angeles, Dec 7:
A pioneer of stem cell research is suing the assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit,over claims that it made about this year’s winners, a spokeswoman said.
Rongxiang Xu, who describes himself as the founder of “human body regenerative restoration science” claims that hemade a key discovery credited to the Nobel winners a decade before they did.
He filed a lawsuit in California this week against the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute, which awarded this year’s prize to Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain.
The two scientists won the prize in October for work in cell programming, a research area that has nourished dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease.
Specifically, they found that adult cells can be transformed back to an infant state called stem cells, the key ingredient in the vision of regenerative medicine.
In awarding the prize, the Nobel jury said: “Their findings have revolutionised our understanding of how cells and organisms develop,” and “created new opportunities to study diseases and develop methods for diagnosis and therapy.”
Describing his lawsuit as a first against the Nobel Assembly, Xu said he discovered “regenerative” cells in 1984 while studying treatments that have benefited 20 million burn victims in 73 countries.
Alleging libel and unfair competition in the suit filed in Orange County, southern California, the Los Angeles-based scientist claims his good reputation was defamed by the Nobel Assembly.
Xu claims the Nobel Assembly’s statement “is false, as he was the scientist who made the discovery a decade earlier, therefore defaming his exemplary reputation,” said a statement announcing the lawsuit.
“My main priority for filing this suit was to clarify the Academy’s mistaken and misleading statements for the preservation of humanity and future generations,” he was cited as saying.
There was no immediate comment to emailed requests for reaction from the Sweden-based Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet or British Nobel laureate Gurdon.
US researcher sues over British Nobel
David Charter and Catherine Nixey
Published at 12:01AM, December 8 2012
Only days before a British biologist is presented with the Nobel prize, the body that selects the laureates is being sued by a researcher who claims that he made the breakthough for which the prize is being given.
As Sir John Gurdon arrived in Sweden to receive his joint award with Shinya Yamanaka, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said that it had never heard of the Los Angeles-based plaintiff who filed a lawsuit against them in California. The assembly, which awards the Nobel for medicine, comprises 50 staff at the institute.
THE AUSTRALIAN
Stem cell pioneer sues Nobel assembly
AAP DECEMBER 07, 201210:18AM
A PIONEER of stem cell research is suing the assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims it made about this year's winners, a spokeswoman says.
Rongxiang Xu, who describes himself as the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" claims he made a key discovery credited to the Nobel winners a decade before they did.
He filed a lawsuit in California this week against the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, which awarded this year's prize to Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain.
The two scientists won the prize in October for work in cell programming, a research area that has nourished dreams of replacement tissue for people crippled by disease.
Specifically, they found that adult cells can be transformed back to an infant state called stem cells, the key ingredient in the vision of regenerative medicine.
In awarding the prize, the Nobel jury said: "Their findings have revolutionised our understanding of how cells and organisms develop," and "created new opportunities to study diseases and develop methods for diagnosis and therapy".
Describing his lawsuit as a first against the Nobel assembly, Xu said he discovered "regenerative" cells in 1984 while studying treatments that have benefited 20 million burn victims in 73 countries.
Alleging libel and unfair competition in the suit filed in Orange County, southern California, the Los Angeles-based scientist claims his good reputation was defamed by the Nobel Assembly.
Xu claims the Nobel assembly's statement "is false, as he was the scientist who made the discovery a decade earlier, therefore defaming his exemplary reputation," said a statement announcing the lawsuit.
"My main priority for filing this suit was to clarify the Academy's mistaken and misleading statements for the preservation of humanity and future generations," he was cited as saying.
There was no immediate comment to emailed requests for reaction from the Sweden-based Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet or British Nobel laureate Gurdon.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/stem-cell-pioneer-sues-nobel-as... 2025/12/10
Dec. 8
US researcher sues over British Nobel
SOURCE: The Times
Only days before a British biologist is presented with the Nobel prize, the body that selects the laureates is being sued by a researcher who claims that he made the breakthough for which the prize is being given…
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3625098.ece
Dec.7,
Stem cell pioneer sues Nobel Assembly in US
SOURCE: PTI
LOS ANGELES, DEC 7: A pioneer of stem cell research is suing the assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims that it made about this year’s winners, a spokeswoman said….
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/stem-cell-pioneer-sues-nobel-assembly-in-us/article4173772.ece
Dec. 7
Stem cell pioneer sues Nobel assembly
SOURCE: AAP
A PIONEER of stem cell research is suing the assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims it made about this year's winners, a spokeswoman says….
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/stem-cell-pioneer-sues-nobel-assembly/story-fn3dxix6-1226531935594