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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Testimony in shocking supermodel stem cell fraud case: “I lied to patients”

Posted on by @ Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Blog


Testimony in shocking supermodel stem cell fraud case: “I lied to patients”

The Biomark case swept across the globe including the U.S., the Netherlands, and South Africa.

Importantly the two defendants in the Biomark case were Americans, Stephen van Rooyen and his “supermodel” wife, Laura Brown (pictured at left partying together). 

The plaintiff was one Justine Asher. She sued van Rooyen and Brown, who ran the company called Biomark International in the U.S. until it was shut down in 2003 related to alleged criminal activity.

Prior to treating Asher in the Netherlands, van Rooyen and Brown had several years earlier reportedly fled the U.S. as fugitives to escape a federal criminal indictment (you can read it here) listing dozens of charges for their actions at Biomark.

The U.S. then reportedly was working to have Brown and van Rooyen extradited back to the U.S. as recently as last year.

Reportedly Brown and van Rooyen also gave many (more than 50 in the U.S. alone) patients “stem cell treatments” for MS and ALS..............

Continue reading @ Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Blog

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