St. Jude is committed to leveraging its assets to accelerate progress and maximize impact for children in Memphis and around the globe with an acute focus on fundamental science, childhood cancer, pediatric catastrophic disease, global impact, and workforce and environment. St. Jude has, and will continue to, significantly influence the way the world understands and treats childhood cancer, sickle cell disease, neurological disorders, and infectious diseases.

Explore our research

The St. Jude environment facilitates interaction among laboratory scientists and clinical investigators, promoting the translation of new findings from the lab to the clinic and communicating clinical problems to laboratory scientists for further investigation. Our 22 academic departments are home to more than 120 fundamental and translational research labs that bring the ‘bench to the bedside,’ ensuring that patients treated at St. Jude benefit fully from advances in our understanding of pediatric catastrophic diseases and their treatment.

Explore the work of our lab-based investigators by searching for a PI/Faculty name.

What sets St. Jude apart?

Careers & training

Answer your calling at St. Jude

St. Jude is a community of diverse faculty, staff, and trainees who strive to ask bold questions, create innovative solutions, and strengthen the robust scientific enterprise. St. Jude investigators have the freedom to focus on making big discoveries, backed by extraordinary resources and support teams. 

Progress: A Digital Magazine

Sharing stories of impact and discovery across the St. Jude research enterprise.

Clinical Research

Understanding best friendships and psychosocial health in pediatric brain tumor survivors

Kathryn J. McCullough, MA

Learn how researchers examined the impact of friendships on social functioning in pediatric brain tumor survivors.

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Combination therapy research strategy comes full circle

Brian O'Flynn, PhD

See how drug activity, not drug synergy should guide preclinical drug combination discovery such as for leukemia including antagonistic drug combos

Profiles

5 Questions for Jingjing Chen, PhD

Jingjing Chen and LaToyia P. Downs, PhD

Meet postdoctoral researcher Jingjing Chen, PhD, Department of Hematology, and learn about her research.

Outreach

Learning today to become the mentors of tomorrow

LaToyia P. Downs, PhD

Learn more about how mentorship at St. Jude prepares future leaders in research and medicine.

An extraordinary academic institution

Learn how a degree from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences can help you further your science and make a difference.

With world-class basic and translational research, mentorship from internationally renowned faculty and exceptional support and resources, our degree programs offer a unique experience for all our students.

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