Eileen White

61.6k total citations · 25 hit papers
241 papers, 41.1k citations indexed

About

Eileen White is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eileen White has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 41.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Molecular Biology, 86 papers in Epidemiology and 60 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Eileen White's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (83 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (48 papers) and Cell death mechanisms and regulation (43 papers). Eileen White is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (83 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (48 papers) and Cell death mechanisms and regulation (43 papers). Eileen White collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Eileen White's co-authors include Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Robin Mathew, Robert S. DiPaola, Vassiliki Karantza‐Wadsworth, Jessie Yanxiang Guo, Lakshmi Rao, Xin Jin, Alec C. Kimmelman, Peter Sabbatini and Kurt Degenhardt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eileen White

238 papers receiving 40.4k citations

Hit Papers

Autophagy promotes tumor cell survival and restrict... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2006 2010 2007 2009 2012 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Autophagy promotes tumor cell survival and restricts necrosis, inflammation, and tumorigenesis
    2006 1.6k citations Kurt Degenhardt, Robin Mathew et al. profile →
  2. Autophagy and Metabolism
    2010 1.6k citations Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Eileen White profile →
  3. Role of autophagy in cancer
    2007 1.5k citations Robin Mathew, Vassiliki Karantza‐Wadsworth et al. profile →
  4. Autophagy Suppresses Tumorigenesis through Elimination of p62
    2009 1.4k citations Robin Mathew, Cristina M. Karp et al. profile →
  5. Deconvoluting the context-dependent role for autophagy in cancer
    2012 1.4k citations Eileen White profile →
  6. Glucose feeds the TCA cycle via circulating lactate
    2017 1.2k citations Jonathan M. Ghergurovich, Xin Teng et al. Nature profile →
  7. Life, death, and the pursuit of apoptosis.
    1996 1.2k citations Eileen White profile →
  8. Activated Ras requires autophagy to maintain oxidative metabolism and tumorigenesis
    2011 1.1k citations Jessie Yanxiang Guo, Robin Mathew et al. profile →
  9. The role for autophagy in cancer
    2015 1.1k citations Eileen White profile →
  10. Mitochondria and Cancer
    2016 957 citations Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Eileen White et al. profile →
  11. The Double-Edged Sword of Autophagy Modulation in Cancer
    2009 935 citations Eileen White, Robert S. DiPaola Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  12. Autophagy suppresses tumor progression by limiting chromosomal instability
    2007 772 citations Robin Mathew, Sameera Kongara et al. profile →
  13. Wild-type p53 mediates apoptosis by E1A, which is inhibited by E1B.
    1993 743 citations Eileen White et al. profile →
  14. Principles and Current Strategies for Targeting Autophagy for Cancer Treatment
    2011 728 citations Robert S. DiPaola, Eileen White et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  15. A Noncanonical Mechanism of Nrf2 Activation by Autophagy Deficiency: Direct Interaction between Keap1 and p62
    2010 715 citations Eileen White et al. profile →
  16. Autophagy mitigates metabolic stress and genome damage in mammary tumorigenesis
    2007 703 citations Vassiliki Karantza‐Wadsworth, Olga Kravchuk et al. profile →
  17. Autophagy and Tumor Metabolism
    2017 662 citations Eileen White et al. profile →
  18. Recent insights into the function of autophagy in cancer
    2016 648 citations Eileen White et al. profile →
  19. The adenovirus E1A proteins induce apoptosis, which is inhibited by the E1B 19-kDa and Bcl-2 proteins.
    1992 567 citations Eileen White et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  20. Hypoxic and Ras-transformed cells support growth by scavenging unsaturated fatty acids from lysophospholipids
    2013 560 citations Jurre J. Kamphorst, Justin R. Cross et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  21. Autophagy, Metabolism, and Cancer
    2015 544 citations Eileen White, Janice M. Mehnert et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  22. Autophagy suppresses progression of K-ras-induced lung tumors to oncocytomas and maintains lipid homeostasis
    2013 471 citations Jessie Yanxiang Guo, Gizem Karsli-Uzunbas et al. profile →
  23. Autophagy Is Required for Glucose Homeostasis and Lung Tumor Maintenance
    2014 437 citations Gizem Karsli-Uzunbas, Jessie Yanxiang Guo et al. Cancer Discovery profile →
  24. Quantitative Analysis of NAD Synthesis-Breakdown Fluxes
    2018 370 citations Xiaoyang Su, Le Zhan et al. profile →
  25. Quantitative Analysis of the Whole-Body Metabolic Fate of Branched-Chain Amino Acids
    2018 342 citations Le Zhan, Eileen White et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Eileen White United States 95 26.5k 17.3k 8.4k 7.5k 4.8k 241 41.1k
Ivan Đikić Germany 100 26.9k 1.0× 14.5k 0.8× 3.9k 0.5× 6.1k 0.8× 8.9k 1.8× 292 40.8k
Keiji Tanaka Japan 112 37.9k 1.4× 19.9k 1.2× 4.0k 0.5× 7.5k 1.0× 11.5k 2.4× 428 55.1k
Junying Yuan United States 103 36.5k 1.4× 10.9k 0.6× 4.9k 0.6× 5.1k 0.7× 8.1k 1.7× 254 52.9k
Guy S. Salvesen United States 110 37.2k 1.4× 5.9k 0.3× 8.2k 1.0× 9.0k 1.2× 5.5k 1.1× 295 54.7k
J. Wade Harper United States 120 48.8k 1.8× 9.5k 0.6× 7.1k 0.8× 19.5k 2.6× 11.7k 2.4× 307 62.5k
Dario R. Alessi United Kingdom 124 50.6k 1.9× 5.1k 0.3× 5.6k 0.7× 7.7k 1.0× 10.1k 2.1× 313 65.6k
Michael N. Hall Switzerland 108 34.3k 1.3× 4.9k 0.3× 3.5k 0.4× 3.1k 0.4× 6.7k 1.4× 246 44.9k
Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage United States 125 53.4k 2.0× 4.7k 0.3× 6.0k 0.7× 7.4k 1.0× 7.7k 1.6× 285 68.1k
Stanley J. Korsmeyer United States 132 59.5k 2.2× 8.0k 0.5× 7.6k 0.9× 15.3k 2.0× 6.5k 1.3× 230 84.0k
John Blenis United States 101 39.2k 1.5× 3.7k 0.2× 5.6k 0.7× 8.2k 1.1× 6.3k 1.3× 222 51.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eileen White

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kremer, Jeff C., Zongtao Lin, Zhixian Hu, et al.. (2023). Discovery and Targeting of a Noncanonical Mechanism of Sarcoma Resistance to ADI-PEG20 Mediated by the Microenvironment. Clinical Cancer Research. 29(16). 3189–3202. 10 indexed citations
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Bhatt, Vrushank, Taijin Lan, Wenping Wang, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of autophagy and MEK promotes ferroptosis in Lkb1-deficient Kras-driven lung tumors. Cell Death and Disease. 14(1). 61–61. 33 indexed citations
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Yang, Yang, Maria Gomez-Jenkins, Timothy Marsh, et al.. (2022). Autophagy in PDGFRα+ mesenchymal cells is essential for intestinal stem cell survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(21). e2202016119–e2202016119. 11 indexed citations
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Khayati, Khoosheh, Vrushank Bhatt, Taijin Lan, et al.. (2022). Transient Systemic Autophagy Inhibition Is Selectively and Irreversibly Deleterious to Lung Cancer. Cancer Research. 82(23). 4429–4443. 18 indexed citations
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Liu, Pengfei, Annadurai Anandhan, Jinjing Chen, et al.. (2022). Decreased autophagosome biogenesis, reduced NRF2, and enhanced ferroptotic cell death are underlying molecular mechanisms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Redox Biology. 59. 102570–102570. 48 indexed citations
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Liu, Pengfei, Matthew Dodson, Hui Li, et al.. (2021). Non-canonical NRF2 activation promotes a pro-diabetic shift in hepatic glucose metabolism. Molecular Metabolism. 51. 101243–101243. 18 indexed citations
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Ghergurovich, Jonathan M., Mark Esposito, Zihong Chen, et al.. (2020). Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Is Not Essential for K-Ras–Driven Tumor Growth or Metastasis. Cancer Research. 80(18). 3820–3829. 36 indexed citations
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Malhotra, Jyoti, Salma K. Jabbour, Gregory Riedlinger, et al.. (2019). Phase Ib/II study of hydroxychloroquine in combination with chemotherapy in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cancer Treatment and Research Communications. 21. 100158–100158. 52 indexed citations
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Perekatt, Ansu O., Pooja Shah, Shannon Cheung, et al.. (2018). SMAD4 Suppresses WNT-Driven Dedifferentiation and Oncogenesis in the Differentiated Gut Epithelium. Cancer Research. 78(17). 4878–4890. 57 indexed citations
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Poillet-Perez, Laura, Xiaoqi Xie, Le Zhan, et al.. (2018). Autophagy maintains tumour growth through circulating arginine. Nature. 563(7732). 569–573. 266 indexed citations
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Xie, Xiaoqi, et al.. (2015). Atg7 Overcomes Senescence and Promotes Growth of Braf V600E-Driven Melanoma. Cancer Discovery. 5(4). 410–423. 166 indexed citations
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Laddha, Saurabh V., Shridar Ganesan, Chang S. Chan, & Eileen White. (2014). Mutational Landscape of the Essential Autophagy Gene BECN1 in Human Cancers. Molecular Cancer Research. 12(4). 485–490. 157 indexed citations
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Karsli-Uzunbas, Gizem, Jessie Yanxiang Guo, Sandy M. Price, et al.. (2014). Autophagy Is Required for Glucose Homeostasis and Lung Tumor Maintenance. Cancer Discovery. 4(8). 914–927. 437 indexed citations breakdown →
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Strohecker, Anne M., Jessie Yanxiang Guo, Gizem Karsli-Uzunbas, et al.. (2013). Autophagy Sustains Mitochondrial Glutamine Metabolism and Growth of Braf V600E–Driven Lung Tumors. Cancer Discovery. 3(11). 1272–1285. 351 indexed citations
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Kamphorst, Jurre J., Justin R. Cross, Jing Fan, et al.. (2013). Hypoxic and Ras-transformed cells support growth by scavenging unsaturated fatty acids from lysophospholipids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(22). 8882–8887. 560 indexed citations breakdown →
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Huo, Yanying, Hong Cai, Irina Teplova, et al.. (2013). Autophagy Opposes p53-Mediated Tumor Barrier to Facilitate Tumorigenesis in a Model of PALB2 -Associated Hereditary Breast Cancer. Cancer Discovery. 3(8). 894–907. 111 indexed citations
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Fan, Gaofeng, Matthew J. Simmons, Sheng Ge, et al.. (2010). Defective ubiquitin-mediated degradation of antiapoptotic Bfl-1 predisposes to lymphoma. Blood. 115(17). 3559–3569. 24 indexed citations
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Kongara, Sameera, Olga Kravchuk, Irina Teplova, et al.. (2010). Autophagy Regulates Keratin 8 Homeostasis in Mammary Epithelial Cells and in Breast Tumors. Molecular Cancer Research. 8(6). 873–884. 41 indexed citations
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Bray, Kevin, Hsin‐Yi Chen, Cristina M. Karp, et al.. (2009). Bcl-2 Modulation to Activate Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer. Molecular Cancer Research. 7(9). 1487–1496. 41 indexed citations
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Karp, Cristina M., Robin Mathew, Chandreyee Mukherjee, et al.. (2008). Role of the Polarity Determinant Crumbs in Suppressing Mammalian Epithelial Tumor Progression. Cancer Research. 68(11). 4105–4115. 82 indexed citations

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