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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research hospital headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. [1]
Research at the Children's Hospital can be traced back to the founding in 1892. Following World War II, extensive resources were dedicated to research, which led to the first successful treatment of histoplasmosis by Dr. Warren Wheeler. Eventually the research conducted at the hospital would be consolidated under C-H-I-L-D, or Children’s ...
Taylor is Scientific Director and Executive Vice President of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. [3] He holds the Edward F. Barry Endowed Chair in Cell and Molecular Biology and also serves as Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology [4] and Director of the St. Jude Pediatric Translational Neuroscience ...
In 1962, with help from Dr. Lemuel Diggs and close friend Anthony Abraham, an auto magnate in Miami, Florida, Thomas founded the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Since its inception, St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and around the world, continuing the mission of finding cures and saving children. [26]
1946 — Radiocarbon in cancer research. For the first time, the United States Department of War releases carbon-14 isotopes to a civilian entity, Siteman's predecessor institutions, Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital (founded in 1905) and the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (founded in 1923), where they are used in cancer studies. [54]
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (18 P) U. United States Army medical research facilities (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Medical research institutes in the ...
The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. The Arthur G James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute is a dedicated cancer hospital and research center that is part of the university's Comprehensive Cancer Center, with a governance structure separate from, but coordinated with, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center ...
The ground breaking for the hospital was July 10, 1984. It was completed January 16, 1990 but a water main break delayed the opening until July 9, 1990, when the first patient was admitted.The hospital treats cancer, and conducts research in the Solove Research Institute. The James receives donations through the Pelotonia biking event.