St. Jude Research

Outreach

Discover how ideas born at St. Jude reach well beyond the hospital walls, influencing STEMM education, global health and more.

Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution
Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution

Highlighting the worldwide childhood cancer problem and how St. Jude is working toward a solution

 Echelle Rutschman

Read how this group is stepping up to tackle the global problem of pediatric cancer.

The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Mercy Children’s Hospital celebrates a decade of life-saving care
The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Mercy Children’s Hospital celebrates a decade of life-saving care

The St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Mercy Children’s Hospital celebrates a decade of life-saving care

 Francisca Fasipe, MD

Read how the Mercy hospital in Springfield, Missouri, has grown since becoming a St. Jude affiliate clinic.

Adult pediatric cancer survivor represents St. Jude on Capitol Hill
Adult pediatric cancer survivor represents St. Jude on Capitol Hill

Adult pediatric cancer survivor represents St. Jude on Capitol Hill

 St. Jude Progress

Medical student and pediatric cancer survivor goes to Washington D.C., to advocate for children’s health.

Psychology’s 10th Anniversary: Department chair remembers modest beginnings, remarkable growth
Psychology’s 10th Anniversary: Department chair remembers modest beginnings, remarkable growth

Psychology’s 10th anniversary: Department chair remembers modest beginnings, remarkable growth

 Sean Phipps, PhD

Learn how psychologists use their clinical and research expertise to help children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

The St. Jude School Program’s new principal has learned a thing or two
The St. Jude School Program’s new principal has learned a thing or two

The St. Jude School Program’s new principal has learned a thing or two

 Barry Wolverton

It’s difficult to do school when you’re fighting cancer, but this new approach to learning may make learning fun again for cancer patients.

Postdoc mentoring: How one lab created a culture of support and success
Postdoc mentoring: How one lab created a culture of support and success

Postdoc mentoring: How one lab created a culture of support and success

 Caleigh Morr

A researcher who works with their lab members accomplish more than he or she ever could alone. Learn how Dr. Mark Hatley mentors his postdocs.

Collaboration is the key to fighting childhood cancer worldwide
Collaboration is the key to fighting childhood cancer worldwide

Collaboration is the key to fighting childhood cancer worldwide

 Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD

The biggest factor in childhood cancer survival is where you’re born. This group is doing something to ensure that doesn’t matter.

Resources, collaboration: two components of great research
Resources, collaboration: two components of great research

Resources, collaboration: two components of great research

 Jennifer Parris

Read how this woman coordinates and sometimes invents resources at this top research facility to help scientists doing critical work.

Why should you care about the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine?
Why should you care about the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine?

The HPV vaccine can prevent more than 31,000 cancer cases a year. This is why I care so much.

 Robin Mutz, MPPM, BSN, RNC, NEA-BC

The HPV vaccine can prevent more than 31,000 cancer cases a year. After losing a friend to cancer, I made sure her children were protected from the virus.

Keeping MLK’s spirit of hope alive in a unique way
Keeping MLK’s spirit of hope alive in a unique way

Keeping MLK’s spirit of hope alive in a unique way

 Cornelius Johnson Jr.

Read how this employee keeps the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. alive.