Author Profile

Laura Jolovic

Radiation Therapist

Laura Jolovic is a radiation therapist in the St. Jude Department of Radiation Oncology

Stories by Laura Jolovic

Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist
Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist
Clinical

Working with parents to better understand how hope and realism coexist

Erica Kaye, MD, MPH

Read how a new model of hope and realism are seen as life-affirming instead of death-denying, strengthening the doctor-patient family relationship.

Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave
Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave
Research

Researchers take the fight to drug resistance up an octave

Robert J. Autry and William E. Evans, PharmD

Drug resistance is a major reason for treatment failure in children with leukemia, but recent research may have an answer.

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes
Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes
Research

Learning more about T cells through studying behavior in Type 1 diabetes

Ben Youngblood, PhD

Learning more about how the body attacks itself in Type 1 diabetes offers insights into how to harness the power of T cells to treat cancer.

Discovery shows oxygen’s role in neuron development
Discovery shows oxygen’s role in neuron development
Research

Discovery shows oxygen’s role in neuron development

David J. Solecki, PhD

Read how oxygen’s role neuron development is critical for brain health in infants.

Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine
Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine
Clinical

Clinical research: Understanding the importance of nursing in precision medicine

Kerry Hillis Goff

Clinical research and precision medicine are changing health care, and nursing as a profession can play this critical role with patients and families.

Prehistoric discovery shines spotlight on histiocytosis
Prehistoric discovery shines spotlight on histiocytosis
Clinical

The mission to make a rare disease extinct

Kim E. Nichols, MD

A newly found fossil may help us learn more about histiocytosis, a rare disorder of the immune system. Read how scientists are collaborating on new therapies.

Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings
Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings
Clinical

Cancer predisposition: early conversations set expectations for future findings

Liza-Marie Johnson, MD, MPH, MSB

Understanding more about childhood cancer raises ethical issues related to cancer predisposition not just for current patients, but for generations after.

Searching for John Smith: Out of the Shadows
Searching for John Smith: Out of the Shadows
Investigator Insights

Searching for John Smith: Out of the Shadows

Elizabeth Jane Walker

Even though he treated patients and conducted research until 1978, little was known about John W. Smith, the first African American physician at St. Jude.

Pushing the limits to find relationship between proteomics and Alzheimer’s
Pushing the limits to find relationship between proteomics and Alzheimer’s
Research

Pushing the limits to find relationship between proteomics and Alzheimer’s

Mary Powers

Read how a 20-year wait for technology shows key insights in brain proteins’ role in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s.

Teens and twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer
Teens and twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer
Clinical

Teens and Twenties: St. Jude aims to improve psychosocial well-being of adolescents and young adults with cancer

Sarah Daniels

Teens have unique psychosocial needs: Read how clinicians and support staff are meeting those needs for teens and young adults who have cancer.