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16-Nov-2020 3:15 PM EST
Metabolic Signaling Plays a Crucial Role in Regulating Specialized T Cells
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have identified how metabolic signaling pathways influence key immune cells with implications for treating autoimmune disorders and cancer.

Released: 13-Nov-2020 10:20 AM EST
St. Jude Nurse Residency Program accredited as a leading program for young professionals
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The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital inpatient Nurse Residency Program has been accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Practice Transition Program.

14-Oct-2020 3:10 PM EDT
Researchers mine data and connect the dots about processes driving neuroblastoma
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Researchers have used insight from a comprehensive genomic analysis of neuroblastoma to learn about the process driving one of the most common childhood solid tumors.

Released: 12-Oct-2020 5:05 PM EDT
St. Jude achieves Magnet® designation for nursing services for the second time
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For the second time, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has received the prestigious Magnet®️ designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Magnet®️ is the gold standard for nursing and represents the highest international recognition awarded by the ANCC.

Released: 30-Sep-2020 4:05 PM EDT
St. Jude recognized as clinical care center for rare von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been designated as a von Hippel-Lindau Clinical Care Center by the VHL Alliance. St. Jude is the first and only VHL Alliance-recognized Clinical Care Center dedicated solely to children.

Released: 24-Sep-2020 10:50 AM EDT
St. Jude immunologist Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, Ph.D., receives NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
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The National Cancer Institute award provides extended support for researchers to pursue projects with groundbreaking cancer research potential

Released: 16-Sep-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Building bridges: PARP enzymes bring broken DNA together
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St. Jude researchers capture the structure of PARP enzymes at work, leading to a new understanding of DNA repair that may aid cancer treatments targeting the process.

14-Sep-2020 8:00 AM EDT
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to Begin Constructing New Patient Housing Facility
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will begin constructing The Domino’s Village, a new housing facility for patients and their families, this fall at 361 N. Third Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

Released: 11-Sep-2020 8:05 AM EDT
Inherited genetic variant influences response to leukemia treatment for some children
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St. Jude researchers showed that an inherited variant of the GATA3 gene is tied to minimal residual disease levels and response to therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Released: 19-Aug-2020 3:25 PM EDT
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs gives us a framework for parenting during a pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic turned our society on its head. One of the changes was a strange new reality where parents became school teachers overnight.

Released: 17-Aug-2020 4:35 PM EDT
Targeting the LANDO pathway holds a potential clue to treating Alzheimer’s disease
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Reducing neuroinflammation by disrupting a protein involved in recycling cellular components may provide a potential therapeutic approach for treating neurodegeneration and memory loss.

Released: 10-Aug-2020 6:45 PM EDT
St. Jude nurse leader Belinda N. Mandrell, PhD, RN, named to the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
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St. Jude nurse leader Belinda N. Mandrell, PhD, RN, named a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

28-Jul-2020 4:15 PM EDT
Hearing loss linked to neurocognitive deficits in childhood cancer survivors
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are studying how hearing loss can affect the neurocognitive abilities of childhood cancer survivors. Findings show that survivors with severe hearing loss are at a significant increased risk for neurocognitive deficits, independent of what type of therapy they receive.

Released: 23-Jul-2020 11:30 AM EDT
Heather Brandt, Ph.D., to lead cancer prevention community outreach projects for St. Jude
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Behavioral scientist will lead St. Jude community outreach and research programs focused on the prevention of HPV-associated cancers through vaccination

2-Jul-2020 10:05 PM EDT
St. Jude researchers create an analytic tool that opens a new frontier of cancer discovery
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have developed software to identify cancer-causing mutations lurking in vast regions of the human genome

Released: 26-Jun-2020 3:05 PM EDT
St. Jude Cloud portal expands access to treasure trove of pediatric solid tumor data
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital develops the Childhood Solid Tumor Network data portal to speed discoveries and novel therapies for treatment of childhood solid tumors

24-Jun-2020 11:40 AM EDT
Inherited mutation found among Brazilians increases cancer risk
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Genomic research helps explain why some people with a common TP53 mutation widespread in Brazil get cancer while others do not.

Released: 23-Jun-2020 11:10 AM EDT
St. Jude creates resource for pediatric brain tumor research
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Researchers worldwide can access orthotopic patient-derived xenograft models to speed discovery and test novel therapies for childhood brain tumors.

Released: 22-Jun-2020 5:55 PM EDT
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital president, CEO recognized for contributions to cancer research
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The American Association for Cancer Research honored St. Jude President and CEO James R. Downing, M.D., with its inaugural AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research.

Released: 22-Jun-2020 5:45 PM EDT
St. Jude pediatric oncologist Dylan Graetz receives Young Investigator Award from ASCO
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Dylan Graetz, M.D., M.P.H., a pediatric hematology-oncology fellow at St. Jude, has received a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Released: 15-Jun-2020 12:50 PM EDT
CICERO software enables detection of cancer-causing gene fusions
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital software enables detection of previously unknown cancer-causing gene fusions, pointing the way to new treatments.

11-Jun-2020 10:00 AM EDT
Cytokine implicated in HLH treatment resistance
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and Baylor College of Medicine are investigating how to best treat hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare immune disorder. Their work, appearing as an advance online publication today in Blood, details how combining two drugs may be a good treatment for HLH.

Released: 5-Jun-2020 10:45 AM EDT
Identifying survivors at high risk of secondary cancers
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St. Jude researchers look at the combined effect of cancer treatments and inherited mutations in DNA-repair genes.

Released: 7-May-2020 2:20 PM EDT
St. Jude awarded federal grant for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has received a National Science Foundation grant to integrate biology and engineering at the molecular level to tackle childhood disease.

Released: 6-May-2020 10:00 AM EDT
Pediatric Neurologist Richard Finkel, M.D., Joins St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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A leading expert in pediatric neurologic disorders, Richard Finkel, M.D., will lead the new Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Released: 30-Apr-2020 10:35 AM EDT
Douglas R. Green, Ph.D., of St. Jude elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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Douglas R. Green, Ph.D., of St. Jude elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his contribution to understanding the mechanism of cell death and survival.

   
Released: 16-Apr-2020 2:15 PM EDT
Global COVID-19 Observatory and Resource Center for Childhood Cancer to serve as hub for sharing information on treating pediatric cancer patients infected by the virus
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in partnership with the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), today launched the Global COVID-19 Observatory and Resource Center for Childhood Cancer.

Released: 15-Apr-2020 3:30 PM EDT
Discovering the secrets of the enigmatic caspase-6
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Researchers identified the mechanisms underlying the innate immune function of the enzyme caspase-6, offering ways to combat viral infection, inflammatory diseases and cancer.

Released: 8-Apr-2020 12:55 PM EDT
St. Jude experimental anti-malarial drug shows promise in first clinical trial
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Malaria is a leading killer of children worldwide, and new drugs are needed. New research reports encouraging early clinical results with a new compound.

Released: 1-Apr-2020 4:05 PM EDT
Significant global investment could save 11 million children
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Spending $20 billion per year for 30 years would yield a 3-to-1 productivity gain of almost $2 trillion to the global economy according to St. Jude Global director and Lancet Oncology Commission co-chair.

31-Mar-2020 3:30 PM EDT
Inherited mutation can predispose children to a type of brain tumor
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Collaboration co-led by researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital discovers a novel predisposition gene in pediatric medulloblastoma.

Released: 31-Mar-2020 2:50 PM EDT
Targeting a transporter to treat SHH medulloblastoma
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have identified a novel target for a type of pediatric brain tumor.

Released: 30-Mar-2020 4:40 PM EDT
Biological ‘atlas’ shows dual personality for immune cells that cause Type 1 diabetes
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital mapped the epigenetic controls on T cells, which could aid Type 1 diabetes diagnosis and treatment, as well as cancer immunotherapy.

6-Mar-2020 8:15 AM EST
St. Jude finds cancer drug resistance genes and possibly how to limit their effects
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Drug resistance is a leading cause of cancer death in children and adults with leukemia. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have developed a novel strategy to find the genes responsible.

Released: 6-Mar-2020 8:15 AM EST
Pediatric Oncologist Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., receives Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital pediatrician and researcher is honored for significant contributions to the advancement and impact of global collective efforts to save more lives from childhood cancer.

Released: 3-Mar-2020 10:05 AM EST
Study reveals properties of cells fated to relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Researchers have found that genetically defined subpopulations of leukemia cells present at diagnosis have distinct characteristics that lead to relapse.

Released: 14-Feb-2020 8:45 AM EST
Unraveling mechanisms of ventricular enlargement linked to schizophrenia
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have implicated two microRNAs in the biological processes that underlie the ventricle enlargement observed in models of schizophrenia.

Released: 12-Feb-2020 4:50 PM EST
New website powered by St. Jude informs families facing childhood cancer no matter where the patient receives treatment
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The Together website by St. Jude offers information about diseases, diagnosis and treatment options, as well as supportive care resources and shared stories of hope, healing and experience.

Released: 27-Jan-2020 12:50 PM EST
The Pediatric Cancer Genome Project at 10: The impact lives on
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Ten years ago this week St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine unveiled an ambitious collaboration to identify the genetic changes that lead to some of the world’s deadliest childhood cancers. The researchers proposed a three-year, $65 million project to sequence the complete normal and cancer genomes of more than 600 childhood cancer patients.

15-Jan-2020 10:45 AM EST
与中国携手改进高危型白血病的疗法
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一项合作临床试验得出了如何使用靶向疗法治疗费城染色体导致的白血病的最新重要发现。

14-Jan-2020 12:00 PM EST
Partnership with China Prompts Change in Care for High-Risk Type of Leukemia
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Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Chinese Children’s Cancer Group led the first randomized, Phase III clinical trial comparing targeted therapies for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) driven by the Philadelphia chromosome. Results showed that the drug dasatinib provides more benefit than the standard of care, which led to changes in the way this leukemia is treated. The findings were reported today in JAMA Oncology.

Released: 13-Jan-2020 2:25 PM EST
Echelle Jobe Rutschman selected for top professional honor
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The Public Relations Society of America, the nation’s leading professional organization serving the communications community, recently announced the election of Echelle Jobe Rutschman to its College of Fellows.

Released: 10-Jan-2020 4:25 PM EST
St. Jude hematologist Akshay Sharma receives ASH 2020 Scholar Award
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Akshay Sharma, MBBS, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is the recipient of a 2020 Scholar Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH). One of ASH’s most prestigious research award programs, the ASH Scholar Award provides financial support to an early career hematology researcher.

Released: 23-Dec-2019 1:55 PM EST
Breaking the dogma: Key cell death regulator has more than one way to get the job done
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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a new way that the molecule RIPK1 leads to cell death in infected, damaged or unwanted cells showing that more than one mechanism can trigger the process. The findings appeared online today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Released: 16-Dec-2019 11:40 AM EST
Elizabeth Fox, M.D., named senior vice president of clinical trials research
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced today that Elizabeth Fox, M.D., has been named senior vice president of clinical trials research.

Released: 12-Dec-2019 3:50 PM EST
Research reveals how muscles talk to the brain to regulate feeding behavior
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A study from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital sheds light on the mechanisms governing feeding behavior in fruit flies and how skeletal muscle communicates energy needs to the brain.

Released: 10-Dec-2019 8:15 AM EST
ASH: Research revises classification of acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
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Results from a study conducted by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Munich Leukemia Laboratory were presented today as a late-breaking abstract at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting. The study integrates genomic and transcriptomic sequencing to provide the most detailed classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) to date.

Released: 6-Dec-2019 6:05 AM EST
ASH annual meeting highlights St. Jude research
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Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will present their work at the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology.

Released: 22-Nov-2019 4:55 PM EST
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital wins a 2019 Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award
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The Guardian of Excellence Award recognizes top-performing health care organizations that have achieved the 95th percentile or above of performance in Patient Experience in Pediatrics.



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