Dr. John H. White, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology and Medicine, McGill University
McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, Room 1112, 3655 Sir William Osler, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6
Phone: (514) 398-4403
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Professor White, who obtained his Ph.D. in 1987 from Harvard, is a molecular biologist and molecular geneticist who has made numerous broad-ranging contributions to the fields of gene regulation and vitamin D physiology. His work on the molecular mechanisms of vitamin D action opened up the field of study of vitamin D as an inducer of antimicrobial innate immunity in humans, and has provided fundamental insights into its potential role as a cancer chemopreventive agent.
Dr. White has been at McGill University since 1991, where he is now a professor in the departments of Physiology and Medicine.
He is also affiliated or has collaborated with the following institutions:
- Division of Experimental Medicine
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
- McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer (MCTRC)
- McGill Integrated Cancer Research Training Program (MICRTP)
- McGill International TB Centre
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
- McGill Institute for Advanced Materials