Kevin P. White

Dr. White is the James and Karen Frank Family Professor in Human Genetics, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, and Director of the Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology at The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He is a world leading expert in cancer genomics and systems biology, and a pioneer in combining experimental and computational techniques to understand the coordinated action of networks of genes that control developmental, disease and evolutionary processes. He was among the first to design genome-scale experiments and apply them to the big questions in genetics and evolution. His team has made significant contributions to the ENCODE, modENCODE, NIH GTEx and psychENCODE projects. He has over one hundred publications in top journals such as Nature, Science and Cell. Dr. White completed his Ph.D. at Standard University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Genome Technology Center. He was named an NIH Genome Scholar, a W.M. Keck Distinguished Young Investigator in Medical Sciences, an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator and a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellow. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of a number of government agencies including the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and private corporations.