http://www.stjude.org/ Top stories for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Copyright 2009 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:24:49 CST http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2fa3e673de0b4210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2fa3e673de0b4210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-11-02 Arthur Nienhuis, M.D., of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, is the recipient of the 2009 Mentor Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH). http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f437d6a85f794210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f437d6a85f794210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-10-28 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators were recently awarded a $23 million federal grant to launch a national study of the drug hydroxyurea to prevent first strokes in children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia (SCA). http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3b9f71508a594210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3b9f71508a594210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-10-27 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been listed among the top 10 “Best Places to Work in Academia” by The Scientist magazine—this year’s seventh place ranking is the fourth straight year the institution has placed in the top 10. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=011d6527dee44210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=011d6527dee44210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-10-19 Researchers identified a new chromosomal abnormality in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that appears to work in concert with another mutation to give rise to cancer. This latest anomaly is particularly common in children with Down syndrome. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=61b60c96f6144210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=61b60c96f6144210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-10-12 Michael Kastan, MD, PhD, and Mary Relling, PharmD, of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a prestigious branch of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f0bea9dbedb24210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f0bea9dbedb24210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-10-08 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have discovered how destructive immune cells gain access to insulin-producing cells and help cause diabetes. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=8042d1980a614210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=8042d1980a614210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-10-05 Adults who survived childhood cancer return to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to celebrate victory over disease and mark the After Completion of Therapy (ACT) Clinic’s 25th anniversary. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f0216669efeb3210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=f0216669efeb3210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-09-15 September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, but for researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital it is a year round mission to research new ways to help more children live long, active lives while also working to better understand the challenges childhood cancer survivors face. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=55a92ea620a13210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=55a92ea620a13210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-08-17 Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have identified inherited variations in two genes that account for 37 percent of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), including a gene that may help predict drug response. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=76a2817788013210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=fa1113c016118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=76a2817788013210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=fa1113c016118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-08-13 Mary Lynn Carver has joined St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as senior vice president of public relations. Carver comes to Memphis, Tenn. from London where she was most recently global head of group internal communications at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals’ world headquarters. In her new role, Carver will oversee communications strategy and the management of public relations activities for St. Jude. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6dadedc5d21f2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6dadedc5d21f2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-08-10 At least one strain of the H5N1 avian influenza virus leaves survivors at significantly increased risk for Parkinson’s disease and possibly other neurological problems later in life, according to new research from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=20d5f3e8bacb2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=20d5f3e8bacb2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-07-27 The most comprehensive analysis yet of the genome of childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML) found only a few mistakes in the genetic blueprint, suggesting the cancer arises from just a handful of missteps, according to new findings from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=21beda03e99b2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=21beda03e99b2210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-07-27 Switching off a key DNA repair system in the developing nervous system is linked to smaller brain size as well as problems in brain structures vital to movement, memory and emotion, according to new research led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c8149eddd5e92210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=c8149eddd5e92210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-07-21 Researchers have uncovered the first cases in which HIV almost certainly was transmitted from mothers or other caregivers to children through pre-chewed food. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=512cba7ea0282210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=512cba7ea0282210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-07-15 The molecular machinery that helps brain cells migrate to their correct place in the developing brain has been identified by scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The finding offers new insight into the forces that drive brain organization in developing fetuses and children during their first years. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=944cdb33ae272210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=944cdb33ae272210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-07-13 Robert Webster, PhD, is recognized by the world’s oldest scientific academy for his contributions to the field of virology. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=525775ce5f012210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=525775ce5f012210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-06-24 Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) can be successfully treated using a carefully personalized chemotherapy regimen without cranial radiation, investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found. Such radiation of the brain was once a standard ALL treatment to prevent recurrence of the leukemia in the central nervous system (CNS). http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=382fdf798b9e1210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=382fdf798b9e1210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-06-16 Charles Mullighan, MD, PhD, an assistant member in the Pathology Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been named a 2009 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. He is the fourth St. Jude scientist honored. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a81d6f1699951210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a81d6f1699951210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-05-19 Results of collaborative study could lead to development of new diagnostic tools and a new therapeutic target in high-risk disease. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a265b2ecc5451210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a265b2ecc5451210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-05-18 St. Jude study of the nocturnal owl monkey suggests that evolution needed only a few genetic changes to profoundly alter eye anatomy http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3fb2d69aaacf0210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3fb2d69aaacf0210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-05-01 As the world watches the developing story of the influenza A (H1N1) outbreak, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is working collaboratively with other research centers to help develop an effective vaccine. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=9e7b68e86bf90210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=9e7b68e86bf90210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-04-14 Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital who represent the interdisciplinary team studying acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have been recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) with the AACR Team Science Award. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e29a7c53dec50210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e29a7c53dec50210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=11444cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-03-31 Nurses and staff in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have been recognized by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence. The award recognizes the nation’s top adult critical care, pediatric critical care and progressive care units. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=888d1d8ccf850210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=888d1d8ccf850210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-03-30 Cells isolated from the eye that many scientists believed were retinal stem cells are, in fact, normal adult cells, investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=805c87e30f040210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=805c87e30f040210VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-03-26 Michael Dyer, a faculty member at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, has been tapped as one of the nation’s leading scientists by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=49d3ae3a1c81f110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=49d3ae3a1c81f110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-01-27 Scan of thousands of inherited genetic changes reveal specific variations linked to treatment failure and the fate of chemotherapy drugs in the body for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=966d8afd1cade110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=966d8afd1cade110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-01-15 St. Jude scientists’ findings in ataxia telangiectasia-like disease and Nijmegen breakage syndrome offer insight into the links between brain disease and cancer vulnerability in people carrying the diseases. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=06b6d10d897be110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=06b6d10d897be110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-01-08 Results of St. Jude study could shape new treatments for secondary pneumonia http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=98d220e1fa2be110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=98d220e1fa2be110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&vgnextchannel=eea54cc6a671e110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2009-01-07 Scientists have identified mutations in a gene that predict a high likelihood of relapse in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Although the researchers caution that further research is needed to determine how changes in the gene, called IKZF1 or IKAROS, lead to leukemia relapse, the findings are likely to provide the basis for future diagnostic tests to assess the risk of treatment failure. http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=708113c016118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD&rss=medicalscience http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=708113c016118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD&rss=medicalscience 2007-05-24 Medicine & Science News