Fusion positive pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma (RBD) can come from non-muscle cells with a fusion oncoprotein. Find how the St. Jude discovery may change treatment.
Steven Varga, Ph.D., is the second dean to lead the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, a unique world-class interdisciplinary environment bridging basic and translational research efforts to advance cures for pediatric catastrophic diseases.
During the decade between the 50th anniversary of the founding of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the 60th, one of the institution’s most significant advancements was the founding of the St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Findings from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital shed light on what drives this metabolic disease and provides clues to targeted treatment with pantazines.
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D., of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been named Associate Dean of Students at the St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Pediatric oncologists in the St. Jude Global Child Health master’s program confront COVID-19 in 16 countries to prevent interruptions in their patients’ cancer care. Find out what they are doing.
Caitlin Zebley, M.D., Ph.D., a junior faculty member with St. Jude, has received a Young Investigator Award from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
St. Jude scientists identified genetic variants in African American childhood cancer survivors that have implications for up-front care and long-term surveillance.
Scientists at St. Jude have shed light on the mechanisms that underlie how Aspergillus fumigatus activates the inflammasome, with implications for therapeutic development.
Liliana Vasquez, MD, pediatric oncologist and global health student, is helping Peru adopt universal coverage for early cancer diagnosis and treatment for children.
Immunologists have determined the process driving life-threatening inflammation, lung damage and organ failure in patients with COVID-19, sepsis and other inflammatory disorders suggesting possible treatment using existing drugs.
Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have identified how metabolic signaling pathways influence key immune cells with implications for treating autoimmune disorders and cancer.
Preclinical studies are underway at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to develop small molecule inhibitors to prevent deadly inflammation and lung damage following respiratory infections and asthma.
Two oncologists enrolled in the Global Child Health MS program at St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences recognized for clinical research from SIOP. Learn more.
St. Jude researchers capture the structure of PARP enzymes at work, leading to a new understanding of DNA repair that may aid cancer treatments targeting the process.
To celebrate the 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month, the St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences recognizes a few of our students in the Global Child Health Master’s program.
COVID-19 reduces the most important meeting of a young scientist’s career to screen time. Read about these second-year grad students and their successful strategies for taking qualifying exams virtually.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have developed software to identify cancer-causing mutations lurking in vast regions of the human genome.
New biomedical PhD students and Global Child Health master’s students were officially welcomed at Convocation for the St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Learn about the St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in this Q&A with dean Stephen White, D.Phil, including some words of advice for first-year PhD students.
A PhD student shares key advice for first-year students: sharpen your analytical skills, unchain your curiosity, reframe failure, embrace opportunity—and don’t do it alone.
Faculty and staff welcomed 13 new PhD students with a convocation ceremony and reception. View images from the event and find out more about the graduate school.
Receiving dedicated advising and mentorship by world-class biomedical researchers has inspired the inaugural class of the graduate school to become more than just students.
