Explore Dr John White's research
18th Vitamin D Workshop
21-24 April 2015, Delf, the Netherlands
John White participated as session co-chair in the 18th Vitamin D Workshop: Session II: Vitamin D Metabolism and Calcium Absorption.
Canadian Cancer Research Conference
3-6 November 2013, Toronto, Canada
John White presented at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference: Vitamin D signaling regulates turnover of target proteins of the E3 ligase tumor suppressor FBW7.
Reyhaneh Salehi-Tabar, Loan Nguyen-Yamamoto, Thomas Quail, Vassil Dimitrov, Beum-Soo An, Leon Glass, David Goltzman, John H. White
Newly Discovered Effects of Vitamin D on Cancer
An Interview with John H. White, Ph.D.
By Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D., WholeFoods Magazine, March 2013
Vitamin D and TB
John White, from the Departments of Physiology and Medicine, explains how Vitamin D combats tuberculosis.
Soup and Science, McGill University, May 2012
Vitamin D Supplements Could Fight Crohn's Disease
A new study has found that Vitamin D, readily available in supplements or cod liver oil, can counter the effects of Crohn's disease.
ScienceDaily and McGill University Health Centre, January 27, 2010
Cell Defenses and the Sunshine Vitamin
Scientists now recognize that vitamin D does much more than build strong bones and that many people are not getting enough of it. Is widespread D deficiency contributing to major illnesses?
By Luz E. Tavera-Mendoza and John H. White in Scientific American, November 2007
The Antibiotic Vitamin
Deficiency in vitamin D may predispose people to infection
Molecular geneticist John H. White of McGill University in Montreal and his colleagues were the first to observe that cathelicidin production is ramped up by vitamin D or, more specifically, by the hormone 1,25-D, the vitamin's active form.
By Janet Raloff in Science News, November 6, 2006
Vitamin D helps fight TB
Findings help explain why populations with low levels of the active form of the vitamin are more at risk
By Ishani Ganguli in TheScientist, February 24, 2006
Vitamin Boost
From muscle strength to immunity, scientists find new vitamin D benefits
In the nucleus of cells, 1,25-D binds to short sequences of DNA. Known as response elements, these sequences switch on the activity of adjacent genes. "We wanted to find out what genes were next to the vitamin D response elements," White recalls.
By Janet Raloff in Science News, October 5, 2004