1996-2000 News Release Archive

 
07/31/2000
St. Jude opens Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

St. Jude unveils a high-tech, front-line biomedical research facility

 
 
07/12/2000
 
 
12/05/1999
St. Jude doctors implement model pediatric cancer program in El Salvador

Featured at American Society of Hematology Meeting, December 6

 
 
07/03/1999
St. Jude researchers develop ways to prevent brain tumors in pediatric leukemia survivors

Study identifies genetic defect that predisposes patients to develop secondary cancer

 
 
05/12/1999
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announces a $1 billion expansion

Marlo Thomas, Vice President Albert Gore and his wife, Tipper, joined St. Jude Children's Research Hospital officials as they announced today that the hospital will embark on a $1 billion, five-year expansion...

 
 
12/16/1998
President Bill Clinton appoints St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Director to National Cancer Advisory Board

President Bill Clinton announced Arthur Nienhuis, M.D., is one of six new members appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Dr. Nienhuis is the Director of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

 
 
08/27/1998
Milestone reached in treatment of most common pediatric cancer; trial of newest protocol enrolls first patients

A world milestone in the treatment of the most common form of pediatric cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), has been achieved in the United States and efforts are already underway to test a new treatment protocol that researchers hope will lead to even higher cure rates for this once-deadly disease.

 
 
10/16/1997
AIDS vaccine program begins at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Gets first step FDA approval -- Phase I safety trial to get underway

 
 
10/07/1996
Dr. Peter Doherty, St. Jude Hospital Immunologist, wins Nobel Prize

Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D., chairman of the immunology department at St. Jude, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel, M.D., immunologists whose experiments revolutionized the field by explaining the mechanism of T-cell recognition in cell-mediated immunity, have won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

 
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