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00133784, 1962, Dr. Donald Pinkel served as the first director and CEO of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital from 1962 to 1973 focusing on ALL, the most frequent cancer in young children, he and his colleagues identified four major obstacles to its cure: drug resistance, drug toxicity, meningeal relapse and most important, pessimism.