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Professor White is the Director of the Cancer Program and Deputy Precision Medicine Theme Leader at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in Adelaide. She is a NHMRC RD Wright Biomedical Research Fellow, a Beat Cancer Prinicpal Research Fellow and Senior Principal Research Fellow with SAHMRI. She is a Professor in Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide and Health Sciences at Uni SA.
Prof White’s research focus is genomics and rationally targeted therapies in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) and Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) and she holds peer reviewed grants from: The William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Foundation and the Leukemia Lymphoma Society (USA), the NHMRC, the Leukaemia Foundation Australia (LFA), Channel 7, Cancer Australia, Tour de Cure and the Cancer Council SA (CCSA). Professor White has presented more than 170 papers at scientific meetings, and authored more than 100 scientific publications as well as being an inventor on several international patents.
Professor White is the National Flagship Lead for the ALL Stream of Australian Genomics, and SA scientific lead for Zero Children’s Cancer She is an active member of the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) being a member of the NHMRC Academy, the Translational Research Program Advisory Committee, and the Women in Health Science (WiHS) Committee. She is a member of the Editorial Board for Cancer Letters.
In 2014 she was recognised as the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Leading Light for her Medical Research and in 2016 was awarded the University of Adelaide James McWha medal. In 2019 she was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Research Excellence Award.
Education/Academic qualification
Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
PhD, University of Adelaide
Keywords
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
- Genomics
- Next Genteration Sequencing
- Haematology
- Cancer Biology
- Leukaemia
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Research Output
KMT2A rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: Unravelling the genomic complexity and heterogeneity of this high-risk disease
Forgione, M. O., McClure, B. J., Eadie, L. N., Yeung, D. T. & White, D. L., 28 Jan 2020, In : Cancer Letters.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey
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Citation
(Scopus)
Lineage of measurable residual disease in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in treatment-free remission
Pagani, I. S., Dang, P., Saunders, V. A., Grose, R., Shanmuganathan, N., Kok, C. H., Carne, L., Rwodzi, Z., Watts, S., McLean, J., Braley, J., Altamura, H., Yeung, D. T., Branford, S., Yong, A. S. M., White, D. L., Hughes, T. P. & Ross, D. M., Apr 2020, In : Leukemia. 34, 4, p. 1052-1061 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Citations
(Scopus)
Successful treatment-free remission in chronic myeloid leukaemia and its association with reduced immune suppressors and increased natural killer cells
Irani, Y., Hughes, A., Clarson, J., Kok, C., Shanmuganathan, N., White, D., Yeung, D., Ross, D., Hughes, T. & Yong, A., 1 Jan 2020, In : British Journal of Haematology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The effect of co-occurring lesions on leukaemogenesis and drug response in T-ALL and ETP-ALL
Tavakoli Shirazi, P., Eadie, L., Heatley, S., Hughes, T., Yeung, D. & White, D., 18 Feb 2020, In : British Journal of Cancer. 122, 4, p. 455-464 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Gene expression signature that predicts early molecular response failure in chronic-phase CML patients on frontline imatinib
Kok, C., Yeung, D., Lu, L., Watkins, D. B., Gray, T., Dang, Y., Saunders, V., Reynolds, J., White, D. & Hughes, T., 28 May 2019, In : Blood Advances. 3, 10, p. 1610-1621 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Prizes
2018 National Health and Medical Research Council Research Excellence Award
Deborah White (Recipient), Mar 2019
Prize: Honorary award
Abstract accepted for the Presidential Symposium
Deborah White (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Other distinction
Abstract accepted for the Presidential Symposium
Deborah White (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Other distinction
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Leading Light
Deborah White (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Honorary award