2021 Archive

Explore the work and achievements of Mengzhao (Lucy) Xue, PhD, as she shares her research journey and what receiving the 2026 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award means for her career path.

Learn how assessing risk helps tailor patient care from the moment of diagnosis.

Discover how the Division of Nursing Research supports nursing staff in clinical research.

Learn how St. Jude researchers helped usher in a new era of better diagnoses.

Find out how the collaborators are learning from each other to improve pediatric cancer care.

Find out how St. Jude researchers are leading the way to better global standards.

Learn about the mRNA-targeting therapy

Meet Layne Pullen, a researcher within the Preclinical Therapeutics Program.

See how St. Jude is bridging the gap between classroom learning and real-world workforce demands.

Meet Saikat Nandy, PhD, and learn about his journey from actuarial science to education and training. 

Walter Hughes, MD, who established the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases and initiated pediatric AIDS research at the hospital, has died.

St. Jude biostatisticians have developed a new method for designing phase 2 clinical trials with a small sample size. The approach uses a mathematical model called Bayesian probability . The researchers created free software to implement the process.

St. Jude will host the virtual Bringing Chemistry to Medicine Symposium July 22–23. The inaugural event in 2020 prompted a researcher in India to become a visiting scientist at St. Jude. Register for the event.

St. Jude researchers looked at burnout and perceived work demands among St. Jude physicians and found that emotional exhaustion and time demands are key factors in a problem that affects both provider and patient.

A pediatric psychologist expresses gratitude for interdisciplinary collaboration, which elevates patient care and provider well-being.

Martine Roussel, PhD, faculty member and endowed chair in molecular oncogenesis, shares how early work on oncogenes led to her lab’s discovery of new oncogenes.

Kristin Lyons, director of Rehabilitation Services, and Jessica Sparrow, Lead Occupational Therapist, worked as part of a team of oncology rehabilitation providers from pediatric institutions across the country to co-author a recent Seminars in Oncology Nursing article, which provides a comprehensive overview of rehabilitation screening, assessment, and intervention for children with cancer.

Posterior fossa syndrome develops in some children following surgery for the brain tumor medulloblastoma. St. Jude research offers fresh insight into the mysterious syndrome and advice on how to avoid it.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recently published treatment guidelines for children diagnosed with nephroblastoma. Two St. Jude physicians collaborated on the project.

As cancer survivorship changes, new benchmarks must be set to redefine survivorship research and treatment success.