Marjorie S. White
· Clinical Professor of Law, and Director of the Startup NC Law ClinicUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Law
Active 1974–2025
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About
Marjorie S. White is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Startup NC Law Clinic at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She also serves as the Director of Small Business Initiatives at the law school’s Institute for Innovation. She joined the faculty in the fall of 2019, coming from Brooklyn Law School where she was an Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director of Transactional Practice for the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) since 2014. Her professional background includes extensive corporate and transactional experience in private practice, with roles at law firms and in executive in-house positions. She spent much of her career in the corporate department of Davis Polk & Wardwell, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, securities work, and private equity transactions. Additionally, she was a partner at Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, served as Vice President and Corporate Secretary of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where she was responsible for worldwide corporate governance, and was the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of a boutique investment advisory firm, overseeing legal and compliance matters. White holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a Comment Editor of the Law Review, and an A.B. in Classics (Greek) from Harvard University, graduating cum laude. She clerked for the Honorable Robert J. Ward, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Medicine
- Biology
- Internal medicine
- Cell biology
- Genetics
- Neuroscience
- Pathology
- Intensive care medicine
- Anatomy
Selected publications
2023-04-03
supplementary-materialsOpen access<p>Clinical information and common oncogenic mutations for cultured cells.</p>
2023-04-03
preprintOpen access<div>Abstract<p>In order to identify new cancer-associated metabolites that may be useful for early detection of lung cancer, we performed a global metabolite profiling of a non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) line and immortalized normal lung epithelial cells from the same patient. Among several metabolites with significant cancer/normal differences, we identified a unique metabolic compound, N-acetylaspartate (NAA), in cancer cells—undetectable in normal lung epithelium. NAA's cance…
2023-04-03
preprintOpen access<p>Chemical identification of MMG-L as N-acetylaspartate (NAA). Supplementary Methods Supplementary Figure Legends</p>
2023-04-03
preprintOpen accessSenior author<p>Supplemental Figure S1. Integrative Analysis of Functional Genomics and Copy Number Variation in Melanoma Cells and Tissues, Supplemental Figure S2. Elastic Net Derived Biomarker Results for Melanoma Survival Genes and Detection of These Biomarkers in TCGA SKCM, Supplemental Figure S3. The SOX10 Regulatory Network Supporting Cell Autonomous Melanoma Cell Growth and Survival, Supplemental Figure S4. SOX10 Addiction Specifies Sensitivity of BRAF Mutant Melanomas to BRAF and MEK Inhibitors…
2023-04-03
preprintOpen access<div>Abstract<p>In order to identify new cancer-associated metabolites that may be useful for early detection of lung cancer, we performed a global metabolite profiling of a non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) line and immortalized normal lung epithelial cells from the same patient. Among several metabolites with significant cancer/normal differences, we identified a unique metabolic compound, N-acetylaspartate (NAA), in cancer cells—undetectable in normal lung epithelium. NAA's cance…
Recent grants
NIH · $5.7M · 2016
NIH · $2.8M · 2017
NIH · $96k · 2009
Frequent coauthors
- 50 shared
Riccardo Autorino
Virginia Commonwealth University
- 41 shared
Robert J. Stein
- 40 shared
Jihad Kaouk
Cleveland Clinic
- 38 shared
Georges‐Pascal Haber
Cleveland Clinic
- 36 shared
Rakesh Khanna
- 28 shared
Shahab Hillyer
Kern Medical Center
- 27 shared
Brian O. Bodemann
- 27 shared
John D. Minna
Education
- 1983
B.A., Political Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1986
Other, Law
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1991
M.A., Public Policy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1996
Ph.D., Public Policy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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