article_snippet.sent: Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceutical group and that company's owner, Mead Johnson, also are defendants.
article_snippet.sent: Bristol-Myers Squibb supplied drugs for the Guatemala experiments, The suit says.
article_snippet.sent: On Saturday, a spokeswoman for Bristol-Myers Squibb sent Johns Hopkins and the Rockefeller Foundation to CNN: "CNN've only just received the complaint in this matter.
article_snippet.sent: Bristol-Myers Squibb played an important role in the development of penicillin in the past and today we continue to focus we work on developing breakthrough medicines for serious disease.
article_snippet.sent: As a company dedicated to patients, we take this matter very seriously and are reviewing the allegations.
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Deanna Hackney contributed to this report.