Author Profile

Alex Generous, PhD

Alex Generous, PhD

Senior Scientific Writer

Alex Generous, PhD, is a Senior Scientific Writer in the Strategic Communications, Education and Outreach Department at St. Jude.

Stories by Alex Generous

Clinical

Collaboration eases the way for immunotherapies to move from lab to clinic

Alex Generous, PhD

A unique St. Jude initiative is accelerating clinical CAR–T cell research in a lab-to-clinic-to-lab loop.

Research

Biostatisticians make clinical trial data more dynamic to gain deeper insights

Alex Generous, PhD

Find how a new statistical package is getting more out of trial analysis.

Research

Collaborative science fuels innovation in immunotherapy effort to treat brain tumors

Alex Generous, PhD

Learn about how an award-winning scientific collaboration is pushing forward novel cancer therapies.

Solid Tumors

Studies link SMARCAL1 to increased risk for pediatric bone cancer

Alex Generous, PhD

Two St. Jude efforts independently uncovered the predisposition gene’s role.

Research

Solving the mysterious case of DICER1 cancer predisposition for pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma

Alex Generous, PhD

Investigate the decades-long cold case that St. Jude researchers finally cracked.

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Finding the balance between efficacy and toxicity in pediatric cancer treatment

Alex Generous, PhD

Discover how researchers find ways to improve treatments with genetic information.

Profiles

5 Questions for Andrew Kleist, MD, PhD

Andrew Kleist, MD, PhD and Alex Generous, PhD

Meet Andew Kleist, MD, PhD, a 2025 STAT Wunderkind early career scientist.

Survivorship

St. Jude calculators crunch the numbers to empower survivors of childhood cancer

Alex Generous, PhD

Find about these free resources, which scientists keep current with the most current survivorship research.

Research

Demystifying a methylation mystery at the fetal hemoglobin gene promoter

Alex Generous, PhD

Learn how St. Jude scientists answered a decades-old mystery with implications for sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia treatment.

Immunotherapy

Center of Excellence in Pediatric Immuno-Oncology fast-tracks progress from the lab to the clinic

Alex Generous, PhD

Learn how St. Jude is accelerating immunotherapy research through communication.