Information Density: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

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[H1] Finding cures. Saving children.

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5 reasons to become a monthly donor

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Care that continues

Childhood cancer survivors have their whole lives ahead of them. St. Jude is there to help every step of the way.

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Explore our work this World Sickle Cell Day

For more than 60 years, St. Jude has been committed to understanding and treating sickle cell disease.

[H2] Read our stories

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Hender hopes to become a doctor at St. Jude

"I know that if he sets his mind to it, he will be able to help other children." - Hender's mom

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Meet Hannah

“The outreach of care is so much greater because we have the support of two places, and the St. Jude teams in Memphis and Huntsville are in constant communication.” - Hannah’s mom

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Laylah's diagnosis came out of nowhere

"It's life-changing, lifesaving work." - Laylah's dad

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Meet Donte

Gene therapy helps Donte cook up a new future.

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St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

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[H2] Helping craniopharyngioma survivors dream well and dream big

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Antisense oligonucleotide strategy reverses HNRNPH2-related neurodevelopmental disorder

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Read about the MIBEAP study for patients with high-risk cancers that defy standard treatments

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See how survivors can manage long-term health and plan for the future in Together by St. Jude™

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Meaningful Father's Day donation and gift ideas

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Summer fundraising events for St. Jude

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[H2] St. Jude Global

[H3] Advancing global research
We are innovating to transform outcomes for children worldwide.

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Research and Hospital Jobs

Join talented clinicians, nurses, researchers, support staff, administrators, and more.

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Fundraising Jobs at ALSAC

To ensure families never receive a bill, we need dynamic fundraisers, marketers, and support staff.

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Explore Memphis

Get to know the community, city life and distinctive culture that make Memphis so special.

[H1] Setting the Standard for Research and Discovery

The engine of discovery at St. Jude is powered by some of the brightest minds in science and medicine, equipped with world-class resources and driven by the shared mission of advancing cures. We dream big and build our research programs to match.

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St. Jude is committed to leveraging its assets to accelerate progress and maximize impact for children in Memphis and around the globe with an acute focus on fundamental science, childhood cancer, pediatric catastrophic disease, global impact, and workforce and environment. St. Jude has, and will continue to, significantly influence the way the world understands and treats childhood cancer, sickle cell disease, neurological disorders, and infectious diseases.

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Advances in sickle cell disease

Pediatric Translational Neuroscience Initiative

Global impact on infectious disease

[H2] Explore our research

The St. Jude environment facilitates interaction among laboratory scientists and clinical investigators, promoting the translation of new findings from the lab to the clinic and communicating clinical problems to laboratory scientists for further investigation. Our 22 academic departments are home to more than 120 fundamental and translational research labs that bring the ‘bench to the bedside,’ ensuring that patients treated at St. Jude benefit fully from advances in our understanding of pediatric catastrophic diseases and their treatment.
[H5] Explore the work of our lab-based investigators by searching for a PI/Faculty name.

[H2] What sets St. Jude apart?

[H3] Unparalleled research

Over the past year, we have made substantial progress in achieving our mission. The Scientific Report highlights some of the more notable advancements St. Jude faculty and staff make every year.

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[H3] Extraordinary collaboration

The culture and campus of St. Jude fosters free exchange of ideas among scientists and clinicians for creative, comprehensive science.

A free exchange of ideas

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[H3] State-of-the-art facilities

St. Jude supports scientific research by investing in resources, technologies, and infrastructure that represent a robust discovery and development pipeline that is unusual among academic institutions.

Environment drives success

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[H3] Unique funding model

While St. Jude investigators and trainees are well-equipped and incredibly successful at securing competitive external funding, dedicated institutional support ensures that our researchers have the security and confidence to pursue transformative and daring questions.

An Investment in research

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[H3] Unrivaled shared resources

St. Jude has over 20 core facilities and research resources that provide expertise and cutting-edge technologies to support collaborative work across the institution.

Cutting-edge technology

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[H4] Answer your calling at St. Jude

St. Jude is a community of diverse faculty, staff, and trainees who strive to ask bold questions, create innovative solutions, and strengthen the robust scientific enterprise. St. Jude investigators have the freedom to focus on making big discoveries, backed by extraordinary resources and support teams.

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[H2] Progress: A Digital Magazine

Sharing stories of impact and discovery across the St. Jude research enterprise.

Research

[H3] Center of Excellence for Structural Cell Biology provides the blueprints to the cell interior

Brian O'Flynn, PhD

Learn how St. Jude is embracing another frontier in structural biology

Investigator Insights

[H3] Development opportunities cultivate more complete pediatric oncologists

Katelyn Daniels, MD

Meet Katelyn Daniels, MD, a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellow whose desire to improve patient outcomes led her to pursue a Physician Scientist Instructor position

Clinical

[H3] St. Jude hospitalists improve processes for better patient care

LaToyia P. Downs, PhD

Learn how St. Jude hospitalists ensure consistent, high-quality care for patients around the clock.

St. Jude On

[H3] Epigenetics reveals new therapeutic opportunities once thought inaccessible

Kasey Belanger-Mayer, PhD

Find out how epigenetics research is revealing vulnerabilities that can be used to treat disease.

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[H2] An extraordinary academic institution

Learn how a degree from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences can help you further your science and make a difference.

With world-class basic and translational research, mentorship from internationally renowned faculty and exceptional support and resources, our degree programs offer a unique experience for all our students.

Learn more about the Grad School

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[H1] U.S. Privacy Notice
Updated September 16, 2025

Introduction
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (“St. Jude”) leads the way the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Five years before St. Jude was founded, American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc. (“ALSAC” “we,” “us” or “our”) was created to raise the funds needed to build and operate St. Jude, and ALSAC remains the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude today. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use and share personal information about consumers who visit www.stjude.org or St. Jude  apps (collectively, the “Site”), donate to our organization, or otherwise contact or interact with us, such as when you attend our events and programs. We also describe the choices available to you regarding our use of the information, the measures we take to protect the security of the information and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. This Privacy Notice is directed toward U.S. residents. For information regarding privacy practices for Canadian residents, please view our Canadian privacy notice. To view the privacy notice for St. Jude, please view the St. Jude Privacy Policy Statement.
We value and respect your desire to keep certain personal information private and to have your data protected from unauthorized access and disclosure. Our goal is to protect your information with appropriate security measures designed to prevent unauthorized access and disclosure of your personal information.
[H2] Information we collect
ALSAC collects personal information about donors, potential donors and other individuals who use the Site or interact with us. We collect personal information such as contact information, professional information, donation or purchase information, payment card information, social media information, demographic information, device information, job application information, and any other information submitted through the Site or interactions with us.  We may also collect other types of information, as described in the “Information We Collect” section below.

The types of personal information we may obtain about you include:
Personal Information you provide
Contact information, including name, email, mailing address, and phone number;
Professional information, including job title and company name;
Donation or purchase information, including transaction history and gift information.
Payment information, including name, billing and delivery address, bank account information, and payment card details and identification information (such as driver’s license number);
Social media information, including your social media handles;
Demographic information, such as financial information or birth date;
Device and online activity information, as described in the Automated Data Collection section below;
Job application information, including resume and any additional application information provided to us, such as employment history and education; and
Communications and interactions, including any information you submit to us through our Site or interactions with us, including through forms, surveys, registrations, emails, calls, comments, support tools and other features on the Site or other communications.
We may obtain this information from you when you use our Site (for example, donate, register, or purchase items) or otherwise interact with us (for example, call or email us or when you attend our events and programs). In some cases, we may obtain your personal information through your interaction with technologies on our Site, such as through automated chat features. We also may obtain your personal information from other parties, such as a data licensing provider, or when someone requests a memorial or honor donation notice or gift be sent to you. We may combine this personal information with information you provide to us.  We also may obtain other personal information about you in ways that we describe at the time of collection.
[H3] Automated data collection
When you use our Site or open our emails, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons (including pixels and tags), web server logs, session replay technology, and other technologies. A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon” (also known as an internet tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF) links web pages to web servers and cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. These technologies help us (1) remember your information so you will not have to re-enter it; (2) track, understand, and analyze how you use and interact with our Site; (3) personalize your experience with our Site, including providing you advertising and content based on your interests and location; (4) measure the usability of our Site and the effectiveness of our communications; (5) authenticate your identity, protect against fraud and provide our products and services; and (6) otherwise manage and enhance our products and services, and help ensure they are working properly.
We may use these automated technologies to collect information about your equipment, browsing actions, usage patterns, and the region or general location from where your device is accessing the internet. The information we collect in this manner may include your device IP address, unique device identifiers, web browser type and characteristics, language preferences, domain name, referring URLs, Site traffic patterns (such as referring or exit URLs and the dates and times of visits), server usage statistics, device type and characteristics, operating system information, location information, and information about your interactions with our Sites (such as pages visited, links clicked, scrolling, features used, dates and times of access, and other information about your use of our Site). We may collect your device’s geolocation information through GPS and other technologies. Your device’s operating platform may provide you with a notification when our apps attempt to collect your precise geolocation.  Please note that if you decline to allow our apps to collect your precise geolocation, you may not be able to use all of our apps’ features or the offers available through them.
Your browser or device may tell you how to be notified about certain types of automated collection technologies and how to restrict or disable them. Please note, however, that without these technologies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Site. For mobile devices, you can manage how your device and browser share certain device data by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your mobile device.

[H2] How we use personal information
ALSAC uses personal information collected to communicate with you, other donors, members of the public and other visitors to the Site to support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We may also use this information to process donations, improve the Site, advertise and market St. Jude and supporting foundations, raise funds, hire employees in support of these goals, and as listed in the section below.

We may use personal information for the purposes listed below, or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection:
Operating our organization. We use personal information to provide services and operate our organization consistent with our mission, including:
To process donations and orders, including to notify you of your order status or gift, provide a receipt, and ship your products;
To administer participation in surveys, sweepstakes, promotions and other programs;
To manage career opportunities with us, including for recruitment purposes, candidate screening and evaluation, and employee onboarding;
To improve and personalize the Site, including to improve and personalize the performance, content, and layout of our web pages;
To compile, anonymize, or aggregate personal information for our business purposes;
To operate, evaluate, and improve our organization (including developing new services, enhancing and analyzing our services, managing our communications, and performing accounting, auditing, and other internal functions); and
To perform analytics, market, trend or statistical research and analysis, including developing, deriving, and compiling market research, data sets, insights, and other metrics.
Communicating with you. We use personal information to communicate with you, including to respond to your requests or inquiries, provide information about your account, donations, and our services and events,  deliver personalized news and other types of communications, and provide support services through automated chat features on our Site, with transcripts of chat communications maintained;
Marketing and advertising.  We use personal information to advertise and market our services and charitable mission, including:
To send you promotional messages and deliver advertisements about our services, charities, events and other programs;
To request donations and help us engage with persons who may wish to donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; and
To conduct internal and market research, identify usage trends, and determine marketing and advertising campaign effectiveness.
Security, compliance and enforcement. We use personal information for security, legal, regulatory, compliance, and enforcement purposes, including:
To protect or exercise the rights of ALSAC or others;
To protect against, identify, and prevent fraud, unauthorized activities and other criminal activity, claims, and other liabilities;
To comply with the law, relevant standards, and policies and to maintain and enhance the security of our Site; and
To comply with requests from law enforcement agencies for enforcement purposes.

[H2] Tailored advertising and analytics
We may use third-party ad services (e.g., ad networks and ad servers) to deliver relevant content and advertising (including ads for St. Jude) on the Site, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use to improve the effectiveness of our marketing. Through these ad services, we can target our messaging to users considering demographic data, users’ inferred interests, and browsing context. These third parties may use cookies, web server logs, web beacons, or other similar technologies to track your online activities over time and across multiple websites and apps in order to serve you ads that may be tailored to your individual interests. The ad services may collect data about your visits to websites that serve our advertisements, such as the pages or ads you view and the actions you take on the websites or apps. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites and apps that participate in these ad services. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
You can opt out of tailored advertising by enabling Global Privacy Control in your browser to communicate your privacy preference. This privacy preference is browser-based and will need to be turned on for each browser that you use. You can learn more about such tailored advertising and how you can generally opt out of certain interest-based advertising in the U.S. by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link or the DAA’s Consumer Opt-Out link for this browser, the DAA’s opt-out link for your mobile device, or TrustArc’s choices link. In addition, your Facebook account settings may allow you to adjust the ads you see while on Facebook and the information Facebook can use to show you ads on Facebook. Note that electing to opt out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. Opting out may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests. We do not control any of the above opt-out links or whether any particular company chooses to participate in these opt-out programs, and we are not responsible for the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms. If you delete your cookies or use a different browser or mobile device, you may need to renew your opt-out choices exercised through these mechanisms.
We use third-party analytics services on the Site.  The providers of these analytics services use technologies such as cookies and web beacons to collect data about your use of the Site and other sites or apps over time for analytics purposes. The information collected through these means may be disclosed or collected directly by these services. We use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Site and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information about Google Analytics, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and to learn how to opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
[H2] How we share personal information
We may share your personal information with third parties who are facilitating the delivery of services or assisting us in supporting the mission of St. Jude. We may also share it with affiliate organizations, like St. Jude and other third parties, such as where required by law or contract, to prevent harm or financial loss, and as otherwise described in the section below.

We may share personal information described in the “Information We Collect” section with certain third parties, including:
Affiliated Entities: We may share your information with St. Jude to advance our fundraising and awareness and the mission of ALSAC and St. Jude.
Service Providers: We may share personal information with service providers such as marketing firms, print, shipping and/or fulfillment vendors, technology providers, providers of automated chat services, data analytics providers, and credit card processors, which may use or disclose the information to perform services on our behalf or to comply with the law.
Cooperatives and Other Charitable Organizations: From time to time, ALSAC may exchange or share personal information, including name and contact information, with cooperatives of other charities. This allows ALSAC to better utilize its resources to reach new donors and audiences in a more cost effective manner.
Volunteers: We may share personal information such as contact information with volunteers for the purpose of facilitating or coordinating activities, fundraising opportunities, or events.
Business Transfers: We reserve the right to transfer to relevant third parties any personal information we have about you in the event of a potential or actual sale or transfer of all or a portion of our organization or assets (inc