Howard D. White PhD

Dr. White, a Professor of Physiological Sciences at EVMS, is a long-term collaborator with Joachim Frank, Ph.D., at Columbia University Medical School, and Richard Henderson, Ph.D., at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. They are two of the three scientists sharing the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structure of biomolecules. Dr. White's role was to help develop the tools that the Nobel scientists and others in this field commonly use to prepare rapidly frozen samples for examination using specialized cryo-electron microscopes. Dr. White began his work in the lab of John Trinick, Ph.D., in Bristol, England, during a sabbatical year from EVMS supported by a Fogarty Senior International Fellowship. That's where Dr. White met Dr. Henderson.

Dr. White and Dr. Frank work together often and recently co-authored a review article on time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy that has been accepted for publication. For a decade, Dr. White served on an advisory panel for a grant that supported Dr. Frank’s work to develop advanced microscopic methods. Earlier this year, Dr. Frank wrote a letter in support of an NIH grant application submitted by Dr. White and his EVMS colleague, Vitold Galkin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiological Sciences, which received a fundable score.