Here’s some interesting information about St. Jude Research Hospital:

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, has treated more than 19,000 children from across the United States and 60 foreign countries.

• Located in Memphis, St. Jude is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into catastrophic childhood diseases such as cancer. It is the largest childhood cancer research center in the United States in terms of the number of patients enrolled and successfully treated.

• Research findings and information discovered at St. Jude are freely shared with doctors and scientists all over the world.

• St. Jude does not distinguish patient care based upon race, religion, culture, age or ability to pay?

• The hospital’s daily operating costs are approximately $715,229 and are primarily covered by public contributions.

• St. Jude has one of the lowest fund raising costs of any national charity. Out of every dollar donated to St. Jude, 80.2 percent goes to current or future needs of St. Jude Hospital, while only 6.4% goes to administrative costs.

• Peter C. Doherty, PhD., chairman of St.Jude Hospital’s immunology department, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1996.

• Since 1962, treatment protocols development at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have brought survival rate for childhood cancers up to 70% overall from a low of less than twenty percent.

• To treat a child with standard-risk acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) requires a 2 1/2-year protocol with an approximate cost of $272,000 for the first year of treatment.

• St. Jude Hospital was the first facility outside the National Institutes of Health to receive federal approval for the research involving human gene therapy. The hospital has more open cell and gene therapy protocols than any other single institution in the world.

Find out more about St. Jude research Hospital by visiting the official website of St. Jude.