The goal of our research program is to examine viral oncogenes and mechanisms of mammalian cell growth and cell death in oncogenesis.

Specifically, the White lab is working to determine the mechanisms by which oncogenes of the DNA tumor virus adenovirus stimulate cell proliferation and inhibit cell death which leads to malignant transformation.

Dr. Eileen White is the Principal Investigator of the White Lab, a resident faculty member at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers University, Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and is Associate Director for Basic Science and Program Leader at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Dr. White received her B. S. degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her Ph. D. degree at SUNY Stony Brook. She then was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory with Bruce Stillman, and a Staff Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, before moving to Rutgers University.