St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Address: 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105
Phone: 866.278.5833

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world-wide leader in understanding, treating and defeating childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It strives to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.

Relationship with UTHSC and the Division: 

St. Jude has a close relationship with UTHSC, as many St. Jude patients will be seen by UT faculty members. The Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program at UTHSC also allows students to shape their doctoral research education in partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Dr. Neil Hayes, Division Chief at UTHSC Hematology and Oncology, is an Adjunct Faculty at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in the Computational Biology Department. Several research collaborations are established between members of the division and St. Jude, including a multidisciplinary effort aiming to develop tools and therapies to cure fibrolamellar carcinoma, a rare liver cancer.