First Lady Jill Biden to meet Ukrainian children at St. Jude

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy First Lady Jill Biden was scheduled to travel to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee on Friday, a visit expected to include meetings with Ukrainian children with cancer and their families fleeing the war and seeking treatment in the U.S. Biden's afternoon visit to the Memphis hospital is the first leg of a trip Friday that also includes travel to Colorado for a Democratic National Committee finance event in Denver, the White House said. Jill Biden will meet with a cancer survivor, tour a laboratory and receive a briefing on St. Jude’s research programs, the White House said. After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, St. Jude teamed up with foundations in Poland to evacuate children with cancer from the war zone, St. Jude President and CEO James Downing said. The four St. Jude patients traveled aboard a U.S. government-operated medical transport aircraft from Krakow, along with a St. Jude doctor who had been in Poland with them, the hospital said.