Professor Sir Nicholas J White
Podcast interview
Artemisinin therapy for malaria
Malaria kills more than half a million people every year. Following a number of groundbreaking clinical trials, Professor Sir Nick White and his Thailand team successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of artemisinin drug therapy for malaria in adults, children and infants. He also pioneered artemisinin combination therapy, the first-line treatment for malaria worldwide.
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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.
Vivax malaria
Recent publications
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Pharmacometric and electrocardiographic evaluation of chloroquine and azithromycin in healthy volunteers.
Chotsiri P. et al, (2022), Clin Pharmacol Ther
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What causes malaria anemia?
White NJ., (2022), Blood, 139, 2268 - 2269
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Defining the burden of febrile illness in rural South and Southeast Asia: an open letter to announce the launch of the Rural Febrile Illness project
Chandna A. et al, (2022), Wellcome Open Research, 6, 64 - 64
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Have we really failed to roll back malaria?
White NJ. et al, (2022), Lancet (London, England), 399, 799 - 800
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Methaemoglobinaemia and the radical curative efficacy of 8‐aminoquinoline antimalarials
White NJ. et al, (2022), British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology