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Biology and Biochemistry

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Overview

Eileen White is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple disciplines mainly within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist's work is particularly situated at the intersection of molecular biology, epidemiology, cancer research, physiology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main fields of study in which the scientist has contributed include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields of study with significant contributions are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Cancer Research
  • Physiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The core topics in their research span:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include:

  • Jessie Yanxiang Guo
  • Zhixian Hu
  • Xiaoyang Su
  • Eduardo Cararo Lopes
  • Joshua D. Rabinowitz

The scientist has published regularly in several key venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Embracing cancer complexity: Hallmarks of systemic disease," 2024, published in Cell
  • "Cachexia: A systemic consequence of progressive, unresolved disease," 2023, published in Cell
  • "Autophagy Regulates Stress Responses, Metabolism, and Anticancer Immunity," 2021, published in Trends in cancer
  • "Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area," 2021, published in Water Research X
  • "Serine Catabolism Feeds NADH when Respiration Is Impaired," 2020, published in Cell Metabolism

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Molecular definitions of cell death subroutines: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2012

    Galluzzi L;Vitale I;Vitale I;Vitale I;Abrams Jm;Alnemri Es

  • Autophagy promotes tumor cell survival and restricts necrosis, inflammation, and tumorigenesis

    Kurt Degenhardt;Robin Mathew;Robin Mathew;Brian Beaudoin;Brian Beaudoin;Kevin Bray

  • Autophagy and metabolism.

    Joshua D. Rabinowitz;Eileen White;Eileen White

  • Role of autophagy in cancer

    Robin Mathew;Vassiliki Karantza-Wadsworth;Eileen White

  • Autophagy Suppresses Tumorigenesis through Elimination of p62

    Robin Mathew;Cristina M. Karp;Brian Beaudoin;Brian Beaudoin;Nhan Vuong

  • Life, death, and the pursuit of apoptosis.

    Eileen White

  • Deconvoluting the context-dependent role for autophagy in cancer

    Eileen White

  • Glucose feeds the TCA cycle via circulating lactate.

    Sheng Hui;Jonathan M. Ghergurovich;Raphael J. Morscher;Cholsoon Jang

  • Activated Ras requires autophagy to maintain oxidative metabolism and tumorigenesis

    Jessie Yanxiang Guo;Hsin Yi Chen;Robin Mathew;Jing Fan

  • The Double-Edged Sword of Autophagy Modulation in Cancer

    Eileen White;Robert S. DiPaola

  • The role for autophagy in cancer.

    Eileen White

  • Wild-type p53 mediates apoptosis by E1A, which is inhibited by E1B.

    Michael Debbas;Eileen White

  • Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

    L. Galluzzi;J. M. Bravo-San Pedro;I. Vitale;S. A. Aaronson

  • Autophagy suppresses tumor progression by limiting chromosomal instability

    Robin Mathew;Sameera Kongara;Brian Beaudoin;Cristina M. Karp

  • Mitochondria and Cancer

    Wei-Xing Zong;Joshua D. Rabinowitz;Eileen White

  • Principles and current strategies for targeting autophagy for cancer treatment.

    Ravi K. Amaravadi;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;Xiao Ming Yin;William A. Weiss

  • The adenovirus E1A proteins induce apoptosis, which is inhibited by the E1B 19-kDa and Bcl-2 proteins.

    Lakshmi Rao;Michael Debbas;Peter Sabbatini;David Hockenbery

  • Autophagy mitigates metabolic stress and genome damage in mammary tumorigenesis

    Vassiliki Karantza-Wadsworth;Shyam Patel;Olga Kravchuk;Guanghua Chen

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Joshua D. Rabinowitz Princeton University
Shridar Ganesan
Shridar Ganesan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Oliver Kepp
Oliver Kepp Institut Gustave Roussy
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sharad Kumar
Sharad Kumar University of Adelaide
Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele Ghent University
Wei-Xing Zong
Wei-Xing Zong Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Guido Kroemer
Guido Kroemer Université Paris Cité
Richard A. Lutz
Richard A. Lutz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lorenzo Galluzzi
Lorenzo Galluzzi Cornell University

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