WIKIMEDIA, JONATHUNDERIn a personal narrative, Rongxiang Xu wrote that in 2003, Chinese and Swedish reporters wondered how many Nobel prizes Xu would win for his impressive work on regenerative science. To their flattery he replied, “I did not conduct scientific researches for any prizes, as ‘God’ had endowed me with this mission and the enthusiasm; all I could do was realize my true value as a human being.”
Still, he was stunned last October when John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on reprogramming mature cells into versatile, pluripotent ones. His own work, Xu claims, was just as critical, if not more so, to the field of regenerative science, and he is suing the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden for unjustly injuring his “reputation, occupation, and profession” and exposing him to “contempt and ridicule.” On February 22, the Assembly filed to transfer the case from a state court in Orange County, California, to a federal court in the same area.
Xu is a Chinese surgeon living in Los Angeles and the founder of the Beijing- and L.A.-based regenerative science corporation MEBO. ...
