article_snippet.sent: A lawsuit filed this week alleges Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation helped conduct a similar study in Guatemala from 1945 to 1956.
article_snippet.sent: The plaintiffs' essential claim in this case is that prominent Johns Hopkins faculty members' participation on a government committee that reviewed funding applications was tantamount to conducting the research itself and that therefore Johns Hopkins should be held liable," Johns Hopkins and the Rockefeller Foundation said.
article_snippet.sent: a class-action federal lawsuit alleges the Rockefeller Foundation funded Johns Hopkins' research into public health issues, including venereal disease, and employed scientists who monitored the Guatemala experiments.
article_snippet.sent: a class-action federal lawsuit, Johns Hopkins and the Rockefeller Foundation
article_snippet.sent: the Rockefeller Foundation said, "seeks improperly to assign 'guilt by association' in the absence of compensation from the United States federal government.
article_snippet.sent: The suit says Johns Hopkins and the Rockefeller Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation designed, supported and benefited from the Guatemala experiments.
article_snippet.sent: The lawsuit says John Hopkins controlled and influenced the appointed panels that authorized funding for research into venereal disease.