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Newswise: Targeting specific protein regions offers a new treatment approach in medulloblastoma
Released: 25-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Targeting specific protein regions offers a new treatment approach in medulloblastoma
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Explore how research targeting EP300/CBP protein in Group 3 medulloblastoma may advance targeted pediatric brain tumor treatments by inhibiting bromodomains.

Released: 23-Apr-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Genetics predict type 2 diabetes risk and disparities in childhood cancer survivors
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Learn how ancestry changes genetic risk variants’ impact on type 2 diabetes in childhood cancer survivors & alkylating agent exposure magnifies diabetes risk.

Newswise: Metabolic health before vaccination determines effectiveness of anti-flu response
Released: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Metabolic health before vaccination determines effectiveness of anti-flu response
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Poor metabolic health or dysfunction, not obesity, leads to poor anti-influenza immune responses. Learn about the new St. Jude influenza vaccination research.

Newswise: Andrew Smith, MD, PhD, named chair of Diagnostic Imaging at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Released: 15-Apr-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Andrew Smith, MD, PhD, named chair of Diagnostic Imaging at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Smith is a nationally recognized academic radiologist with expertise in body and oncologic imaging, clinical trials and imaging research and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in imaging and medicine.

Newswise: New drug prevents flu-related inflammation and lung damage
Released: 10-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
New drug prevents flu-related inflammation and lung damage
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Findings show a newly created drug can prevent runaway inflammation while still allowing the immune system to handle the virus, even when given late into infection.

Newswise: St. Jude survivorship portal brings researchers ‘one-click’ away from discovery
Released: 9-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
St. Jude survivorship portal brings researchers ‘one-click’ away from discovery
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital today announces the survivorship portal, part of the St. Jude Cloud ecosystem, for unparalleled data analysis and visualization.

   
Newswise: Targeting vulnerability in B-cell development leads to novel drug combination for leukemia
Released: 8-Apr-2024 2:45 PM EDT
Targeting vulnerability in B-cell development leads to novel drug combination for leukemia
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Recent work by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists discovered which tumor cells resist treatment and why. By characterizing B-cells’ developmental stages, they designed and tested a drug combination to effectively treat resistant B-cell leukemia.

Newswise: Study flips treatment paradigm in bilateral Wilms tumor, shows resistance to chemotherapy may point toward favorable outcomes
Released: 28-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Study flips treatment paradigm in bilateral Wilms tumor, shows resistance to chemotherapy may point toward favorable outcomes
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists studying bilateral Wilms tumor found that chemotherapy resistance correlates with tumors favorable to surgery, reducing the need for additional therapy.

Newswise: Researchers turn back the clock on cancer cells to offer new treatment paradigm
Released: 27-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Researchers turn back the clock on cancer cells to offer new treatment paradigm
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists reversed an aggressive cancer, reverting malignant cells towards a more normal state.

Newswise: Scientists Find Core Regulatory Circuit Controlling Identity of Aggressive Leukemia
Released: 21-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Scientists Find Core Regulatory Circuit Controlling Identity of Aggressive Leukemia
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found a small set of proteins that maintain anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) identity, representing potential future therapeutic targets.

Newswise: Change in Mycn-Driven Cell State Opens Therapeutic Window in High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Released: 19-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Change in Mycn-Driven Cell State Opens Therapeutic Window in High-Risk Neuroblastoma
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital showed that the MYCN protein promotes a switch in the cellular state within the tumor microenvironment, with slow-growing mesenchymal cells swapping to the more dangerous and faster-growing adrenergic state.

   
Newswise: Immunotherapy Targeting Cancer Fusion Protein May Hold Key to Treating Rare Liver Cancer
Released: 19-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Immunotherapy Targeting Cancer Fusion Protein May Hold Key to Treating Rare Liver Cancer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center discovered two T-cell receptors in a single patient that recognizes the fusion and can guide T cells to kill all tumor cells carrying the hybrid protein in a mouse model.

Newswise: Role in mitochondrial metabolism paints more complete picture of MCL-1 function
Released: 18-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Role in mitochondrial metabolism paints more complete picture of MCL-1 function
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have uncovered a metabolic role for cell-survival protein MCL-1, potentially explaining previous clinical trial setbacks.

Newswise: Rare inflammatory disease responds best to the one-two punch of JAK inhibition
Released: 7-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EST
Rare inflammatory disease responds best to the one-two punch of JAK inhibition
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists showed inhibiting both JAK1 and JAK2 proteins improved hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in models of the inflammatory syndrome.

Newswise: St. Jude taps health care start-up veteran as first Senior Vice President of Tech Commercialization
Released: 20-Feb-2024 11:45 AM EST
St. Jude taps health care start-up veteran as first Senior Vice President of Tech Commercialization
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jordan will work with researchers to bring a greater number of new technologies, innovations and scientific breakthroughs to the clinic, enabling breakthroughs from St. Jude laboratories to benefit more patients.

Newswise: Novel bispecific design improves CAR T–cell immunotherapy for childhood leukemia
Released: 12-Feb-2024 11:55 AM EST
Novel bispecific design improves CAR T–cell immunotherapy for childhood leukemia
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Findings from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital showed a novel dual targeting approach, where a single molecule can recognize two potential cancer-related proteins, is more effective than the single targeting approach, preventing immune escape.

Newswise: Sara Federico, MD, named director of the Solid Tumor Division at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Released: 7-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Sara Federico, MD, named director of the Solid Tumor Division at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Established clinician researcher will focus on novel treatments and clinical trials for difficult-to-treat childhood cancers.

Newswise: Inaugural class of Damon Runyon–St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellows announced
Released: 1-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Inaugural class of Damon Runyon–St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellows announced
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

The initiative aims to provide support for early-career scientists to study pediatric cancer, addressing a funding gap that drives top talent to seek more prevalent opportunities in adult cancer research or the pharmaceutical sector.

Newswise: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital adds $13 million project to Research Collaboratives Program
18-Jan-2024 11:00 AM EST
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital adds $13 million project to Research Collaboratives Program
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

As outlined in the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan, the St. Jude Research Collaboratives program is part of an overall effort by the institution to fund collaborative research addressing complex scientific problems with transformative potential for the diseases treated at St. Jude.

Newswise: St. Jude Home Care, LLC is first U.S. pediatric home health agency to earn new category of industry certification
Released: 16-Jan-2024 1:45 PM EST
St. Jude Home Care, LLC is first U.S. pediatric home health agency to earn new category of industry certification
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

The home health agency for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital outpatients earned dual certifications in both pediatrics and home health, the nation’s first such agency to achieve that distinction.



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