Nicholas J. White

Professor Sir Nicholas John White FRS is Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand and at Oxford University, UK. He is also a Consultant Physician in acute general medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Professor White is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow who chairs the Wellcome Trust Tropical Medicine Research Programmes in South East Asia. He has conducted research across a broad range of infectious diseases. His main research focus is the pathophysiology and treatment of malaria. He also currently conducts pharmacometric research on COVID-19, influenza, and Chagas disease. He has authored over 1250 scientific publications and over 50 book chapters. His “h” index is currently 160 (Scopus) and 240 (Google). Professor White has received the Prince Mahidol Prize for Medicine, the Canada Gairdner Foundation Global Health Prize, and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Manson medal. He has been a member of the WHO antimalarial treatment guidelines committee for over 20 years (and co-chaired it for twelve) and he currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative and the Coalition for Equitable Research in Low Resource Settings.