Rebekah White

Title(s)	Professor, Surgery
School	Vc-health Sciences-schools
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
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Combining Irreversible Electroporation with Immunotherapy for the Systemic Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
NIH R01CA254268Jan 20, 2021 - Jan 10, 2026
Role: Principal Investigator

Aptamers as Proteomic Tools for Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Identification
NIH R21CA198287Sep 1, 2015 - Aug 31, 2017
Role: Principal Investigator

RNA Therapeutics for Pancreatic Cancer
NIH K08CA142903Aug 17, 2011 - Jul 31, 2015
Role: Principal Investigator

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Local ablation in pancreatic cancer: some answers and more questions. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024 Mar 18. Berman ZT, White RR. PMID: 38513682.

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Gas Gastroenterology
Local ablative therapies and the effect on antitumor immune responses in pancreatic cancer - A review. Heliyon. 2024 Jan 15; 10(1):e23551. Erdem S, Narayanan JS, Worni M, Bolli M, White RR. PMID: 38187292; PMCID: PMC10767140.

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Work-Life Integration for Academic Surgeons. JAMA Surg. 2023 Dec 01; 158(12):1235-1236. White RR. PMID: 37703034.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery (PEDD) of a class C TLR9 agonist in combination with checkpoint inhibitor therapy in a murine pancreatic cancer model. Surgery. 2023 09; 174(3):666-673. Capacio BA, Shankara Narayanan JS, Vicente DA, Liu Y, LaPorte JP, Cox BF, Jaroch DB, Katz SC, White RR. PMID: 37391328.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Animals
Treatment of pancreatic cancer with irreversible electroporation and intratumoral CD40 antibody stimulates systemic immune responses that inhibit liver metastasis in an orthotopic model. J Immunother Cancer. 2023 01; 11(1). Shankara Narayanan JS, Hayashi T, Erdem S, McArdle S, Tiriac H, Ray P, Pu M, Mikulski Z, Miller A, Messer K, Carson D, Schoenberger S, White RR. PMID: 36634919; PMCID: PMC9843215.

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Neo Neoplasms The Therapeutics
Translation:Animals
Tumor FAK orchestrates immunosuppression in ovarian cancer via the CD155/TIGIT axis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 04 26; 119(17):e2117065119. Ozmadenci D, Shankara Narayanan JS, Andrew J, Ojalill M, Barrie AM, Jiang S, Iyer S, Chen XL, Rose M, Estrada V, Molinolo A, Bertotto T, Mikulski Z, McHale MC, White RR, Connolly DC, Pachter JA, Kuchroo VK, Stupack DG, Schlaepfer DD. PMID: 35467979; PMCID: PMC9169934.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Animals
Optimizing Patient Selection for Irreversible Electroporation of Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Analyses of Survival. Front Oncol. 2021; 11:817220. Woeste MR, Wilson KD, Kruse EJ, Weiss MJ, Christein JD, White RR, Martin RCG. PMID: 35096621; PMCID: PMC8793779.

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The Landmark Series: Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer and Ablative Therapy Options. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 Aug; 28(8):4173-4180. White RR, Murphy JD, Martin RCG. PMID: 33586072.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Cholangitis Caused by a Migrated Pancreatic Duct Stent Into the Bile Duct After Pancreaticoduodenectomy. ACG Case Rep J. 2020 Nov; 7(11):e00477. Yang E, Eskandari A, Chang MA, White RR, Savides TJ. PMID: 33235887; PMCID: PMC7678796.

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Pressure-enabled delivery of gemcitabine in an orthotopic pancreatic cancer mouse model. Surgery. 2020 09; 168(3):448-456. Shankara Narayanan JS, Vicente DA, Ray P, Chai LF, Erdem S, Carr MJ, Capacio BA, Cox BF, Jaroch DB, Katz SC, White RR. PMID: 32620306.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Anti-KIT DNA Aptamer for Targeted Labeling of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor. Mol Cancer Ther. 2020 05; 19(5):1173-1182. Banerjee S, Yoon H, Yebra M, Tang CM, Gilardi M, Shankara Narayanan JS, White RR, Sicklick JK, Ray P. PMID: 32127469; PMCID: PMC7202956.

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Ant Antineoplastic Agents
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Incidental Gallbladder Cancer: Permission to Operate. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020 Apr; 27(4):980-982. Erdem S, White RR. PMID: 31722073.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Irreversible Electroporation Combined with Checkpoint Blockade and TLR7 Stimulation Induces Antitumor Immunity in a Murine Pancreatic Cancer Model. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 10; 7(10):1714-1726. Narayanan JSS, Ray P, Hayashi T, Whisenant TC, Vicente D, Carson DA, Miller AM, Schoenberger SP, White RR. PMID: 31409607; PMCID: PMC6774877.

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All Allergy and Immunology Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Animals Cells
A prospective, multi-institution assessment of irreversible electroporation for treatment of locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma: initial outcomes from the AHPBA pancreatic registry. HPB (Oxford). 2019 08; 21(8):1024-1031. Holland MM, Bhutiani N, Kruse EJ, Weiss MJ, Christein JD, White RR, Huang KW, Martin RCG. PMID: 30737097.

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Gas Gastroenterology
Translation:Humans
Polymer-Mediated Inhibition of Pro-invasive Nucleic Acid DAMPs and Microvesicles Limits Pancreatic Cancer Metastasis. Mol Ther. 2018 04 04; 26(4):1020-1031. Naqvi I, Gunaratne R, McDade JE, Moreno A, Rempel RE, Rouse DC, Herrera SG, Pisetsky DS, Lee J, White RR, Sullenger BA. PMID: 29550075; PMCID: PMC6079560.

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Mol Molecular Biology The Therapeutics
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Cell-SELEX Identifies a "Sticky" RNA Aptamer Sequence. J Nucleic Acids. 2017; 2017:4943072. Ray P, White RR. PMID: 28194280; PMCID: PMC5282457.

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TGF-β-induced stromal CYR61 promotes resistance to gemcitabine in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through downregulation of the nucleoside transporters hENT1 and hCNT3. Carcinogenesis. 2016 11 01; 37(11):1041-1051. Hesler RA, Huang JJ, Starr MD, Treboschi VM, Bernanke AG, Nixon AB, McCall SJ, White RR, Blobe GC. PMID: 27604902; PMCID: PMC5091039.

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Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans Cells
In Vivo Selection Against Human Colorectal Cancer Xenografts Identifies an Aptamer That Targets RNA Helicase Protein DHX9. Mol Ther Nucleic Acids. 2016 Apr 26; 5:e315. Mi J, Ray P, Liu J, Kuan CT, Xu J, Hsu D, Sullenger BA, White RR, Clary BM. PMID: 27115840; PMCID: PMC5014527.

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Defining the learning curve for team-based laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy. Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 Nov; 21(12):4014-9. Speicher PJ, Nussbaum DP, White RR, Zani S, Mosca PJ, Blazer DG, Clary BM, Pappas TN, Tyler DS, Perez A. PMID: 24923222.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Groove Pancreatitis: Four Cases from a Single Center and Brief Review of the Literature. ACG Case Rep J. 2014 Apr; 1(3):154-7. Black TP, Guy CD, White RR, Obando J, Burbridge RA. PMID: 26157859; PMCID: PMC4435303.

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The role of clinical care pathways: an experience with distal pancreatectomy. J Surg Res. 2014 Jul; 190(1):64-71. Nussbaum DP, Penne K, Speicher PJ, Stinnett SS, Perez A, White RR, Clary BM, Tyler DS, Blazer DG. PMID: 24666986.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for localized pancreatic cancer: too little or too long? Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 May; 21(5):1508-9. White RR, Evans DB. PMID: 24452411.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: do contemporary morbidity and mortality rates demand a transition to ablation as first-line treatment? J Am Coll Surg. 2014 Apr; 218(4):827-34. Li GZ, Speicher PJ, Lidsky ME, Darrabie MD, Scarborough JE, White RR, Turley RS, Clary BM. PMID: 24655879.

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Gen General Surgery Gyn Gynecology Obs Obstetrics
Translation:Humans
Further characterization of the target of a potential aptamer biomarker for pancreatic cancer: cyclophilin B and its posttranslational modifications. Nucleic Acid Ther. 2013 Dec; 23(6):435-42. Ray P, Sullenger BA, White RR. PMID: 24152208; PMCID: PMC3868381.

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Bio Biochemistry Dru Drug Therapy Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Cells
Modest improvement in overall survival for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer: a trend analysis using the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results registry from 1988 to 2008. Pancreas. 2013 Oct; 42(7):1157-63. Worni M, Guller U, White RR, Castleberry AW, Pietrobon R, Cerny T, Gloor B, Koeberle D. PMID: 23867367.

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Gas Gastroenterology
Translation:Humans
Trends in racial disparities in pancreatic cancer surgery. J Gastrointest Surg. 2013 Nov; 17(11):1897-906. Shah A, Chao KS, Ostbye T, Castleberry AW, Pietrobon R, Gloor B, Clary BM, White RR, Worni M. PMID: 24002757.

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Gas Gastroenterology Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Concomitant vascular reconstruction during pancreatectomy for malignant disease: a propensity score-adjusted, population-based trend analysis involving 10,206 patients. JAMA Surg. 2013 Apr; 148(4):331-8. Worni M, Castleberry AW, Clary BM, Gloor B, Carvalho E, Jacobs DO, Pietrobon R, Scarborough JE, White RR. PMID: 23715922.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Humans
Aptamer-mediated delivery of chemotherapy to pancreatic cancer cells. Nucleic Acid Ther. 2012 Oct; 22(5):295-305. Ray P, Cheek MA, Sharaf ML, Li N, Ellington AD, Sullenger BA, Shaw BR, White RR. PMID: 23030589; PMCID: PMC3464421.

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Bio Biochemistry Dru Drug Therapy Mol Molecular Biology
Translation:Humans Cells
The impact of vascular resection on early postoperative outcomes after pancreaticoduodenectomy: an analysis of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 Dec; 19(13):4068-77. Castleberry AW, White RR, De La Fuente SG, Clary BM, Blazer DG, McCann RL, Pappas TN, Tyler DS, Scarborough JE. PMID: 22932857.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Targeting eNOS in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Res. 2012 Sep 01; 72(17):4472-82. Lampson BL, Kendall SD, Ancrile BB, Morrison MM, Shealy MJ, Barrientos KS, Crowe MS, Kashatus DF, White RR, Gurley SB, Cardona DM, Counter CM. PMID: 22738914; PMCID: PMC3749841.

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Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Comparing human pancreatic cell secretomes by in vitro aptamer selection identifies cyclophilin B as a candidate pancreatic cancer biomarker. J Clin Invest. 2012 May; 122(5):1734-41. Ray P, Rialon-Guevara KL, Veras E, Sullenger BA, White RR. PMID: 22484812; PMCID: PMC3336995.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Resected pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: patterns of failure and disease-related outcomes with or without radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Jul 15; 83(4):1126-31. Zagar TM, White RR, Willett CG, Tyler DS, Papavassiliou P, Papalezova KT, Guy CD, Broadwater G, Clough RW, Czito BG. PMID: 22270161.

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Neo Neoplasms Rad Radiology Rad Radiotherapy
Translation:Humans
Aptamers for Targeted Drug Delivery. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2010 May 27; 3(6):1761-1778. Ray P, White RR. PMID: 27713328; PMCID: PMC4033951.

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Notch promotes radioresistance of glioma stem cells. Stem Cells. 2010 Jan; 28(1):17-28. Wang J, Wakeman TP, Lathia JD, Hjelmeland AB, Wang XF, White RR, Rich JN, Sullenger BA. PMID: 19921751; PMCID: PMC2825687.

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Cel Cell Biology Emb Embryology
Translation:Humans Animals Cells
Timing of multimodality therapy for resectable synchronous colorectal liver metastases: a retrospective multi-institutional analysis. Ann Surg Oncol. 2009 Jul; 16(7):1809-19. Reddy SK, Zorzi D, Lum YW, Barbas AS, Pawlik TM, Ribero D, Abdalla EK, Choti MA, Kemp C, Vauthey JN, Morse MA, White RR, Clary BM. PMID: 18979139.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Assessing the optimal duration of chemotherapy in patients with colorectal liver metastases. J Surg Oncol. 2008 Jun 01; 97(7):601-4. White RR, Schwartz LH, Munoz JA, Raggio G, Jarnagin WR, Fong Y, D'Angelica MI, Kemeny NE. PMID: 18449915.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Inhibition of in vivo tumor angiogenesis and growth via systemic delivery of an angiopoietin 2-specific RNA aptamer. J Surg Res. 2008 May 01; 146(1):16-23. Sarraf-Yazdi S, Mi J, Moeller BJ, Niu X, White RR, Kontos CD, Sullenger BA, Dewhirst MW, Clary BM. PMID: 17950331.

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Gen General Surgery
Translation:Animals Cells
Evaluation of preoperative therapy for pancreatic cancer using a prognostic nomogram. Ann Surg Oncol. 2006 Nov; 13(11):1485-92. White RR, Kattan MW, Haney JC, Clary BM, Pappas TN, Tyler DS, Brennan MF. PMID: 17013688.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiation on operative mortality and morbidity for pancreaticoduodenectomy. Ann Surg Oncol. 2006 Jan; 13(1):66-74. Cheng TY, Sheth K, White RR, Ueno T, Hung CF, Clary BM, Pappas TN, Tyler DS. PMID: 16372154.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
Significance of histological response to preoperative chemoradiotherapy for pancreatic cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2005 Mar; 12(3):214-21. White RR, Xie HB, Gottfried MR, Czito BG, Hurwitz HI, Morse MA, Blobe GC, Paulson EK, Baillie J, Branch MS, Jowell PS, Clary BM, Pappas TN, Tyler DS. PMID: 15827813.

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Gen General Surgery Neo Neoplasms
Translation:Humans
The role of chemoradiation therapy in locally advanced pancreatic cancer. HPB (Oxford). 2005; 7(2):109-13. White RR, Reddy S, Tyler DS. PMID: 18333172; PMCID: PMC2023933.

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Gas Gastroenterology