Professor White is the Director: Cancer Program and Deputy Precision Medicine Theme Leader at SAHMRI. She is a NHMRC RD Wright Biomedical Research Fellow, a Beat Cancer Prinicpal Research Fellow, and Professor in both Health and Medical Sciences and The Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Deb’s research focus is genomics and rationally targeted therapies in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia and she holds several peer reviewed international and national grants. Professor White has presented > 170 scientific papers, authored > 100 publications and is an inventor on several patents. Deb is the National Flagship Lead for the ALL Stream of Australian Genomics, and SA scientific lead for Zero Children’s Cancer and an Editor for Cancer Letters. In 2014 she was recognised as the ASMR Leading Light and in 2016 awarded the University of Adelaide James McWha medal. In 2019 she was awarded a NHMRC Research Excellence Award.