White to present Dean’s Lecture, Feb. 12
The Office of Research Affairs welcomes Eileen White, PhD, to present the 2025 Dean’s Lecture at 12:15 p.m., Feb. 12 in MSB 1.006.
White is the deputy director, chief scientific officer, and associate director for basic research at the Rutgers Cancer Institute in New Jersey. She will present the lecture on “Cancer Cachexia.” White’s lab at Rutgers Cancer Institute has made seminal discoveries revealing the mechanisms and the roles of apoptosis, autophagy, and metabolism in cancer using molecular, biochemical, and in vivo approaches.
White received her bachelor of science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, N.Y., before earning a PhD in Biology from SUNY Stony Brook. She then became a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Stillman and then moved on to a staff investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory before eventually joining the faculty at Rutgers University.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MERIT award from the National Cancer Institute and the Red Smith award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.
The Dean’s Lecture Series at McGovern Medical School was established in 1983 to promote and encourage professional development and spark collaborative interest. Sponsored by the Research Committee, each year eminent scientists across various scientific disciplines are invited to present their work. Lecture topics range from basic science research to patient care topics.