St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a biomedical research and treatment institution focused on childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Founded in 1962, the hospital is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Its mission centers on advancing cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.
The hospital operates on a model where families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing, or food. St. Jude also freely shares its research discoveries with the global scientific community. Since its founding, the overall childhood cancer survival rate has increased from 20% to more than 80%.
St. Jude's data infrastructure supports large-scale biomedical research, clinical data management, and genomic computing workloads. The organization runs high-performance computing environments and data centers to process the complex datasets involved in pediatric disease research, making it a significant employer of data center and IT professionals within the biomedical sector.
