The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.
Seeking treatment?
Our approach makes us different from most children’s hospitals. Learn more about seeking treatment for your child at St. Jude.
Our history
Founder and entertainer Danny Thomas opened the doors to St. Jude in 1962 with the dream that “no child should die in the dawn of life."
Why support us?
Unlike any other hospital, the majority of our funding comes from individual contributions. And thanks to generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude.
No child should die in the dawn of life.
Cost to family: $0
Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
Saving kids worldwide
St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
Our goal: 100% survival
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago.
Our stories
Meet our patients, families, supporters, and staff and experience the innovative research, pioneering treatments and inspirational stories that happen at St. Jude every day. Experience our stories.
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Working at St. Jude is one of my proudest accomplishments
Learn more about the role of Legal Services in hospital operations.
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Physicist finds meaning in numbers to enhance proton therapy treatment
Find out how medical physicists work with clinicians to ensure the effective delivery of proton therapy treatment.
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Loving what you do is key to doing your best work
Learn how Sanjay Verma forged a successful medical technologist career.
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One family, two journeys
Raeleigh's mom brought her baby sister into the world on the same day that Raeleigh was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Meet Mary Browder
When St. Jude patient Mary Browder was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, her family never believed she would get back to a normal life. Today, her diagnosis is just one part of her story.
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Cryo-EM: It’s a Small, Small World
Scientists in the new St. Jude Cryo-EM and Tomography Center zoom in on staggeringly small structures to better understand biological systems.
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Dawn of a New Era for Aggressive Brain Tumors
Relapsed brain tumors have been difficult to treat, but a new approach at St. Jude offers a ray of hope.
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Dance of the T Cells
A new therapy at St. Jude called CAR T-cell therapy holds hope for many children who have cancer that returns or is hard to treat.
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Science Alliance: Fighting PKAN Together
Married St. Jude researchers broaden their collaboration to develop a novel medication for pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), a life-threatening neurological disorder.
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Flu Fighters: How the Immune System Protect Infants from Influenza
St. Jude investigators discover how guardian T cells help combat influenza in infants and young children.
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St. Jude and WHO Unite to Save Lives
The greatest predictor of survival for a child with cancer is where that child happens to live. St. Jude and World Health Organization join forces to change that sobering fact.
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Sharing Smiles
Delta Dental and the Smile180 Foundation have donated $2 million to support St. Jude treatment, research and awareness.
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A Cancer Chameleon: Mixed-phenotype Acute Leukemia
Features of mixed-phenotype acute leukemia can change, enough to switch the diagnosis from one acute leukemia to the other.
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Caregiving has been a lifelong passion for ICU nurse
Learn how Angel Parker made a career from years of caregiving experience.
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Meet Maverick
On NYE of 2017, Maverick went to the hospital with abnormal bloodwork. His family entered the new year facing a terrifying diagnosis: blood cancer.
