Clinical Depts / Divs


All St. Jude clinical academic departments have translational research programs that bring the "bench to the bedside," ensuring that patients treated at St. Jude benefit fully from advances in our understanding of pediatric catastrophic diseases and their treatment.

Most patients are treated on disease-specific front-line clinical protocols, which provide state of the art treatment while generating new insights that will continue to improve the cure rate of these diseases. The St. Jude environment facilitates interaction among laboratory scientists and clinical investigators, promoting the translation of new findings from the lab to the clinic and communicating clinical problems to laboratory scientists for further investigation.

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