Heather Mefford, MD, PhD

St. Jude psychologists use clinical hypnosis to help children and adolescents manage pain, nausea and distress during and after cancer treatment.

Teaching science can create scientists of the future. But communicating science can be difficult unless you remember these things.

The pandemic has highlighted the critical role of these physicians – and how there is a critical need for more.

Leukemia patients and families can get the information they need through this new publication that breaks down diagnosis and treatment.

Some COVID-19 infections can create a molecular storm inside your body that can be fatal. This research team may have found a way to stop it.

Read what this physician-researcher does to set the standard for central nervous system cancers and treatments.

The nature of brain development reveals that these two things are key – and also may hold clues to fighting childhood brain cancers.

G-protein-coupled receptors are a popular target for drug therapies. This researcher is finding out why some drugs targeting GPCRs fail.

Research reveals that supportive tissue in the lungs helps coordinate the immune response to flu by regulating access to the tissue and inflammation in the lungs.

A portrait of this researcher marks a half-a-century of scientific discovery and her contribution to scientific discovery.