St. Jude History & Growth

When late entertainer Danny Thomas opened the doors to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 1962, he was not just changing the lives of children who would walk through its doors—he was changing lives across the world. When St. Jude completed its $1 billion, five-year expansion in 2005, it bolstered the hospital's efforts to find cures for the catastrophic diseases of childhood. The growth more than doubled the size of the hospital’s original campus. The expansion included the Children's GMP, LLC—the nation's only pediatric research center on-site facility for production of highly specialized treatments and vaccines—an expanded Department of Immunology and more. Now with the addition of the Chili’s Care Center, a larger, rejuvenated Kay Kafe cafeteria for employees and patients, and renovations to the medicine room and rehabilitation areas, the hospital is more poised than ever to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.

St. Jude History & Growth
St. Jude completed its $1 billion, five-year (1999-2005) expansion that bolstered the hospital's efforts to find cures for the catastrophic diseases of childhood. The expansion moves St. Jude much closer to ultimately realizing the dream of founder Danny Thomas that "no child should die in the dawn of life."
St. Jude Through the Years - The Future
St. Jude's future - you can be a part of it.
St. Jude Through the Years - The Present
St. Jude's history - the present.
St. Jude Through the Years - Breakthroughs Begin/Progress Continues
Breakthroughs Begin/Progress Continues ...
St. Jude Through the Years - The Early Years
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded in 1962.
St. Jude History & Growth - Outreach
The mission of the International Outreach Program (IOP) is to improve the survival rates of children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases worldwide, through the sharing of knowledge, technology and organizational skills.
St. Jude History & Growth - New Center
The mission of the St. Jude Children's Infection Defense Center (CIDC) is to eliminate catastrophic infectious killers of children by unlocking mysteries of how our bodies fight off disease and how viruses and bacteria cause disease.
St. Jude History & Growth - Physical Expansion
With the growth of St. Jude's clinical and research efforts, the hospital's physical facilities had to grow. The expansion has more than doubled the size of the campus.