Category: Investigator Insights
Finding a path to discovery with Shengdar Tsai, PhD
| Aug 29, 2023Learn how Shengdar Q. Tsai, PhD, searches for new paths and discoveries in genome editing.
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Creating Supportive Spaces in Science with Heather Mefford, MD, PhD
| Jun 8, 2023Heather Mefford, MD, PhD, knows the importance of being part of a supportive and inclusive culture. Learn how she creates supportive spaces for scientists at St. Jude.
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Investigator Insights: Conducting Computational Research with Brian Abraham, PhD
| Apr 27, 2023St. Jude scientist Brian Abraham, PhD, conducts computational research leveraging relationships and expertise to make discoveries. Read his story.
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Investigator Insights: Cultivating a Research Culture with Daniel Blair, PhD
| Feb 14, 2023Learn how Daniel Blair, PhD, is creating a laboratory research culture based on sincerity, kindness and the curiosity to ask pressing scientific questions.
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Investigator Insights: Taking a Leap with Lily Guenther, MD
| Jan 5, 2023Sometimes a scientist’s next step isn’t a step, but more of a career-defining leap. Early-career investigator Lily Guenther, MD, shares her experience of taking that leap and starting a laboratory at St. Jude.
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Donald P. Pinkel, MD
| Mar 14, 2022Donald Pinkel, MD, the founding medical director of St. Jude, has died in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Rising Stars of Cancer Research lectures to bring fresh insights
| Oct 4, 2021The Rising Stars of Cancer Research program is a new addition to the Science of Childhood Cancer lecture series. The program highlights the work of emerging leaders in the cancer research community.
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St. 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.
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Connections 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.
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Roussel’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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