St. Jude joins $60 million collaboration to fight childhood cancer
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has joined two other top research institutions in a project to fight childhood cancer. Standing (from left to right): Dr. Charles W.M. Roberts, Francisca Vazquez, Broad Institute Cancer Dependency Map Project director, Dr. Kimberly Stegmaier Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, vice chair of Pediatric Oncology Research. (Courtesy St. Jude.)
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has joined The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight childhood cancer.
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