Sir Nicholas White, a British medical doctor and researcher who specialised in tropical medicine, died on February 1, 2026, aged 74.
Born in London on March 13, 1951, he studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School at King’s College London and completed his residency in internal medicine at hospitals in London and at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. He worked in Nepal from 1974 to 1980 and, from 1980, was involved in the development of the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, a collaboration between Mahidol University in Thailand and the University of Oxford.
He became director of MORU in 1986 and later helped establish similar collaborations in Vietnam.
Sir Nicholas John White (13 March 1951 – 1 February 2026) was a British medical doctor and researcher, specialising in tropical medicine in developing countries. He was known for his work on tropical diseases, especially malaria using artemisinin-based combination therapy.