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When Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, arrived as the chief of cardiac surgery at WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in October 2022, he delivered a bounty of innovations for patients like Harry Ratliff.

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare but highly aggressive cancer that progresses very quickly, often over the course of days or weeks.

Thanks to ongoing donor support through The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, WashU Medicine researchers are making progress on better ways to tackle triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

In the future, some low-risk breast tumors may be removed through cryoablation, thanks to a donor-funded study led by Julie Margenthaler, MD, FACS, director of Breast Surgical Services at Siteman Cancer Center and the inaugural Endowed Chair for Surgical Excellence in Breast Cancer through The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. 

On September 18, 2025, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital held the Nicholas T. Kouchoukos Research Day in partnership with the WashU Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Meet four research scientists and physicians who are raising awareness about the need for early cancer screenings, adjusting treatment plans for a greater and faster impact, and drastically improving diagnostic tools at Siteman Cancer Center to create more precise and personalized approaches to therapies.

The Foundation is proud to honor and install Dr. Debbie Lee Bennett as The Ronald and Hanna Evens Endowed Chair in Women's Health at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and is grateful to the donors who made this position possible. 

Through Foundation funding, BJC Community Health Improvement encourages gun safety to prevent violence and increase family health in St. Louis. By providing gun locks as a preventative service, the team aims to reduce gun-related injuries throughout the community.

The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital recently helped fund 12 new projects through the Siteman Investment Program (SIP), a research grant program at Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine.

As young-onset colorectal cancer diagnoses rise, Dr. Will Chapman Jr. and Dr. Matt Mutch are innovating care for colorectal cancer patients, thanks to donors through the Foundation.