St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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faith and made a promise to St. Jude Thaddeus. The promise was "Help me find my way in life, and I will build a shrine" (Danny Thomas). Danny also founded the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), which is the fundraising organization of St. Jude. Memphis was selected as the site for the hospital at the suggestion of a Catholic Cardinal, Samuel Stritch, who was Danny Thomas' spiritual advisor. Even though Danny is a Catholic he did not set up the hospital as a Catholic hospital, but rather a secular institution. Danny founded St. Jude on the idea that "No child should die in the dawn of their life" (Shrineofstjude.org). The groundbreaking for the hospital began in 1960. The hospital itself was designed by Paul Revere Williams and officially opened on February 4, 1962, in front of a crowd of roughly 9000 to 10000 people.
St. Jude was designed to help children with cancers and other diseases. Once they are admitted to St. Jude, they are taken care of from beginning ...

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cured the world's first patient of sickle-cell by using stem cell/bone marrow transplant (stjude.org). Following that success, in 1984 they opened the After Completion of Therapy Clinic, which was designed to provide long term follow up care for pediatric cancer patients. This was and is still the world's largest long term follow up clinic.
Just over a decade later, in 1996, St. Jude became home to a Nobel Prize winner when Dr. Peter Doherty, Ph.D. won this honor in the Physiology or Medicine category. To follow that up in 2006 they reached a huge breakthrough when they reported a 94% survival rate of patients that had Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by using a method that did ...

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