Research

Learn about published research as well as leading-edge basic and translational research initiatives from St. Jude laboratories.

10,000 reasons St. Jude Cloud can help advance science

Chris Pennington

10,000 reasons St. Jude Cloud can help advance science

Medulloblastoma therapy may get better thanks to key technology
Medulloblastoma therapy may get better thanks to key technology

Medulloblastoma therapy may get better thanks to ‘key’ technology

Martine F. Roussel, PhD

In testing a new treatment for a deadly brain tumor, read what these researchers did to figure out how to make exact duplicates of the cancer.

Innate immunity: the body’s first line of defense against a dangerous fungus
Innate immunity: the body’s first line of defense against a dangerous fungus

Innate immunity: the body’s first line of defense against a dangerous fungus

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD

Innate immunity is your body’s first line of defense. What happens when it’s weakened? Researchers are using this common fungus to find out how to help.

Medulloblastoma and microirradiation: Tiny treatments for the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor
Medulloblastoma and microirradiation: Tiny treatments for the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor

Medulloblastoma and microirradiation: Tiny treatments for the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor

Martine F. Roussel, PhD

Medulloblastoma may soon be treated by a microirradiator - a machine the size of two refrigerators that beams radiation down to half the width of a credit card.

Translational research: Seeing what we do and who we help
Translational research: Seeing what we do and who we help

Translational research: Finding the connection between what we do and who we help

Himy Muniz-Talavera, PhD

It's a rare day you get to see translational research benefit others—I've spoken to cancer patients and seen first-hand how research saves children's lives.

Computational algorithm fix restores power to research
Computational algorithm fix restores power to research

Computational algorithm fix restores power to research

Jiyang Yu, PhD

A computational algorithm helps analyze large data sets at the expense of computing power. This small fix to a free program brings big data back to small labs.

Neural development: Unlikely partners work together to make your brain: when they don’t get along, it could lead to rare and devastating disease
Neural development: Unlikely partners work together to make your brain: when they don’t get along, it could lead to rare and devastating disease

Neural development: Unlikely partners work together to make your brain: when they don’t get along, it could lead to rare and devastating disease

Jamy Peng, PhD

In neural development, two essential molecules partner to build the human brain — but when things go awry, it could lead to brain cancer.

Learn the basics of CAR T-cell immunotherapy and how it is being used in the SJCAR19 clinical trial for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Learn the basics of CAR T-cell immunotherapy and how it is being used in the SJCAR19 clinical trial for acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Learn the basics of CAR T-cell therapy and how it is being used in the SJCAR19 clinical trial at St. Jude

Aimee Talleur, MD

Learn the basics of CAR T-cell immunotherapy and how it is being used in the SJCAR19 clinical trial for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A moving target: Taking aim at the shift and drift of influenza viruses
A moving target: Taking aim at the shift and drift of influenza viruses

A moving target: Taking aim at the shift and drift of influenza viruses

Daniel Darnell

How close are we to a flu pandemic? Read how it could happen and what researchers are doing to prevent it.

Blazing through new territory to fight a devastating neurodegenerative disease
Blazing through new territory to fight a devastating neurodegenerative disease

Blazing through new territory to fight a devastating neurodegenerative disease

St. Jude Communications Department

Read how researchers have found a path to control coenzyme A and possibly prevent a devastating neurodegenerative disease.