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Professor Sir Nicholas J White

Professor Sir Nicholas J White

Contact information


nickwdt@tropmedres.ac


Sophie Patten
sophie.patten@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Podcast interview

Improving the treatment of infectious diseases


With nearly 50 years in malaria research and more recent focus on COVID-19, research at MORU led to more effective treatments. In COVID-19, trials debunked drugs like ivermectin or favipiravir, but validated remdesivir, molnupiravir and protease inhibitors. As malaria faces drug resistance, triple therapies offer hope. MORU research aims for tangible health impacts, with an approach applicable to other infectious diseases.

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Nicholas White

FRS

Professor of Tropical Medicine

  • Professor at Mahidol University in Thailand

Professor White’s diverse interests include the epidemiology, pathophysiology and management of uncomplicated and severe malaria, meliodosis, enteric fever, tetanus, dengue haemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis and tuberculosis. His particular interests at present include the pathophysiology and treatment of severe malaria,  the prevention of antimalarial drug resistance using artemisinin-based combinations. and the biology of relapse in vivax malaria.

Professor Sir Nick White passed away on the 1st February 2026

Vivax malaria

Proposed mechanism of periodic Plasmodium vivax relapse activation
Proposed mechanism of periodic Plasmodium vivax relapse activation

Recent publications

Reconsidering the clinical assessment of resistance to slowly eliminated antimalarial drugs in high-transmission settings

Journal article

White NJ. and Watson JA., (2026), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 26, e240 - e247

Parasitological efficacy of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Nampula, northern Mozambique

Journal article

Bonnington C. et al, (2026), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 120, 258 - 267

Cerebral malaria: of mice and men.

Journal article

Weerasekera CJ. and White NJ., (2026), Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 120, 254 - 257

Accurate Measurement of Viral Clearance in Early-Phase Antiviral Studies in Coronavirus Disease 2019

Journal article

Wongnak P. et al, (2026), The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 233, e582 - e584

Transplacental Transfer of Lumefantrine, Mefloquine, and Piperaquine: A Comparison of Concentrations in Mothers, Neonates, and Cord Blood

Journal article

Saito M. et al, (2026), Clinical Infectious Diseases, 82, e165 - e173