Karina Perez-Ortiz

Karina Perez-Ortiz has been a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital since 2014 and has participated in the Teen Art Show every year since 2015.

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Creating beauty during an ugly fight

Posted by Karina Perez-Ortiz | Apr 12, 2018

Teen cancer patients create artwork to share a different side of their fight against cancer.

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How scientists visualize and analyze T cells

Posted by Beiyun Liu, PhD, and Stefan Schattgen, PhD | Mar 21, 2023

Scientists at St. Jude use a variety of tools to study T cells, including some they create themselves.

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Metastatic cancer cells thrive in harsh microenvironments

Posted by Erin Podolak | Mar 16, 2023

Like a journey through space, metastatic cells have to adapt to spread throughout the body.

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Engineering a new kind of therapy

Posted by Allison Kirk and Jeremy Chase Crawford | Mar 14, 2023

Scientists at St. Jude are at the forefront of research to design and develop novel CAR T-cell therapies.

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Data-driven science helps researchers design new protein interactions

Posted by Erin Podolak | Mar 9, 2023

With a comprehensive approach to thinking about data, St. Jude scientists are fueling progress.

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Immunology fate and function illustration

Understanding the complex networks behind a functional adaptive immune system

Posted by Nicole Chapman | Mar 7, 2023

Explore how a T cell knows what it is, and what to do, through research happening at St. Jude.

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Creating beauty during an ugly fight

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How scientists visualize and analyze T cells

Metastatic cancer cells thrive in harsh microenvironments

Engineering a new kind of therapy

Data-driven science helps researchers design new protein interactions

Understanding the complex networks behind a functional adaptive immune system