St. Jude Progress
Take the prevent HPV pledge and let’s stop cancer before it starts
| Jun 29, 2022HPV vaccination rates dipped during the COVID-19 pandemic. St. Jude is working with more than 100 organizations, health experts and others to highlight vaccination as cancer prevention.
Five years later: gene therapy for ‘bubble boy’ disease
| May 19, 2022- Take the prevent HPV pledge and let’s stop cancer before it starts
- By sharing their story, cancer patients can help improve their care
- SAFER Ukraine: a framework for responding to global conflicts
- Research points to a way to reduce cachexia, a cancer-induced muscle wasting disorder
- Five years later: gene therapy for ‘bubble boy’ disease
Employee volunteers aid St. Jude contact tracing team in fight against COVID-19
| Sep 2, 2021The St. Jude Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Team has been working to keep the St. Jude campus safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn moreConnections with colleagues: A St. Jude pediatric psychologist has renewed appreciation for an overlooked benefit of interdisciplinary collaboration.
| Jul 5, 2021A pediatric psychologist expresses gratitude for interdisciplinary collaboration, which elevates patient care and provider well-being.
Learn moreCompassionate connections: Providing end-of-life care to patients and families during COVID-19
| Jul 1, 2021A St. Jude psychologist who provided supportive end-of-life care during the pandemic shares recommendations for making compassionate connections with patients and families.
Learn moreVoices from the front line: Maintaining connections to help the helpers
| Jun 29, 2021Niki Jurbergs, PhD, the director of the St. Jude Psychology Clinic, and other psychosocial staff used their skills to conduct an array of COVID-19 employee-support programs, thereby boosting the well-being of helpers and helping to ensure that patients and families continue to receive excellent care.
Learn moreSAFER Ukraine: a framework for responding to global conflicts
| May 26, 2022What lessons can be learned from the remarkable success of SAFER Ukraine?
Learn moreA doctor’s journey fueled life-saving work at SAFER Ukraine for children with cancer
| May 12, 2022“SAFER Ukraine works because we have human connections with our partners,” explains Asya Agulnik, MD, MPH.
Learn moreMarcin Wlodarski, MD, PhD, dropped everything to help children fleeing Ukraine
| May 10, 2022Marcin Wlodarski, MD, PhD, was new to international humanitarian work prior to volunteering with SAFER Ukraine. “I learned so much I cannot every describe it in words,” he said.
Learn moreProtecting the mental health of Ukrainian families experiencing childhood cancer
| May 9, 2022Global health care providers gathered virtually for SAFER Conversations, a webinar created to share information and support to those working with Ukrainian children and families displaced by the war.
Learn moreResearch points to a way to reduce cachexia, a cancer-induced muscle wasting disorder
| May 24, 2022Muscle signaling provide clues for treatment of the muscle-wasting disorder cachexia, which affects cancer patients.
Learn moreFive years later: gene therapy for ‘bubble boy’ disease
| May 19, 2022Interim results point to enduring immune function following gene therapy for Infants with ‘bubble boy’ disease
Learn moreMetabolic processes may yield a new therapeutic window for hard-to-treat brain tumors
| Apr 22, 2022In his laboratory at St. Jude, Stephen Mack, PhD, is researching how metabolic and epigenetic pathways might be perturbed to help treat DIPG, a lethal childhood brain tumor.
Learn moreThe double-edged sword of being both parent and blood stem cell donor
| Mar 8, 2022What are the potential psychological and emotional risks and rewards for parents who serve as their children’s bone marrow donors?
Learn moreBy sharing their story, cancer patients can help improve their care
| Jun 16, 2022Narrative medicines uses insight gained from listening carefully to how patients tell their own stories to improve health care, patient education and research.
Learn moreReflecting on nearly 40 years of progress against pediatric brain tumors
| May 16, 2022May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month and a good time to learn more about the diverse group of diseases that make up the most common childhood solid tumor.
Learn moreLessons from Lebanon: St. Jude Global reacts to war in Ukraine
| Mar 30, 2022Lessons learned from previous global crises inform the St. Jude Global response to childhood cancer patients displaced by the war in Ukraine.
Learn moreBuilding a platform to bring cancer drugs to children worldwide
| Jan 6, 2022St. Jude and WHO announce plans to dramatically improve global access to pediatric cancer drugs
Learn moreTake the prevent HPV pledge and let’s stop cancer before it starts
| Jun 29, 2022HPV vaccination rates dipped during the COVID-19 pandemic. St. Jude is working with more than 100 organizations, health experts and others to highlight vaccination as cancer prevention.
Learn moreProtecting the mental health of Ukrainian families experiencing childhood cancer
| May 9, 2022Global health care providers gathered virtually for SAFER Conversations, a webinar created to share information and support to those working with Ukrainian children and families displaced by the war.
Learn moreWe Envision a Bright Future for Children
| Mar 16, 2022St. Jude is strengthening its HPV cancer prevention measures – and calling on partners to join the Path to a Bright Future campaign.
Learn moreSt. Jude symposium to focus on hippocampus imaging in childhood cancer patients and survivors
| Feb 3, 2022St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Department of Diagnostic Imaging is hosting their 3rd Annual Scientific Symposium, “Imaging Structure and Functions of the Hippocampus” on February 25.
Learn morePolish roots led Marta Salek, M.D., to a leading role in SAFER Ukraine effort
| May 2, 2022Dr. Marta Salek of St. Jude was in Poland visiting family when Russia invaded Ukraine. She jumped in to help launch the humanitarian effort SAFER Ukraine.
Learn moreDonald P. Pinkel, MD
| Mar 14, 2022Donald Pinkel, MD, the founding medical director of St. Jude, has died in San Luis Obispo, California.
Learn moreSt. Jude mourns the death of infectious diseases pioneer Walter Hughes, MD
| Aug 13, 2021Walter Hughes, MD, who established the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases and initiated pediatric AIDS research at the hospital, has died.
Learn moreRoussel’s early discovery shaped a career of cancer research
| Jun 7, 2021Martine 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.
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