Abbott Scholar Award

Douglas White MD

Dr White is Instructor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at Washington University in St. Louis where he sees patients and works in Skip Virgin's laboratory on gammaherpesvirus-68, a rodent virus closely related to EBV and KSHV.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin, and his thesis work at the University of Iowa in the laboratory of John Harty. Dr White’s residency training was in Internal Medicine at Parkland Hospital at the University of Texas Southwestern and his fellowship training in rheumatology at Washington University in St Louis.

Selected publications

White D. W., H. Drossman and D. Drayna 1992. A Simple Method for the Preparation of Single-Stranded Polydeoxynucleotides of Desired Length. BioTechniques 13:232-236.

White, D. W. and J. T. Harty. 1998. Perforin-deficient CD8+ T cells provide immunity to Listeria monocytogenes by a mechanism which is independent of CD95 and IFNg but requires TNFa. Journal of Immunology 160(2):898-905.

White, D. W., A. MacNeil, D. H. Busch, I. M. Philip, E. G. Pamer and J. T. Harty. 1999. Perforin-deficient CD8+ T cells: in vivo priming and antigen-specific immunity against Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Immunology 162(2):980-988.

Wilson, R. L., D. W. White and J. T. Harty. 2000. Transient Expression of Bacterial Gene Fragments in Eukaryotic Cells: Implications for CD8+ T Cell Epitope Analysis. Journal of Immunological Methods 234(1-2):137-147.

Myung, P.S., J. L. Clements, D. W. White, Z. A. Malik, J. S. Cowdery, L. A. Allen, J. T. Harty, D. J. Kusner, G. A. Koretzky. 2000. In vitro and in vivo macrophage function can occur independently of SLP-76. International Immunology 12(6):887-897.

White, D. W., V. P. Badovinac, G. Kollias and J. T. Harty. 2000. Antilisterial activity of CD8+ T cells derived from TNF-deficient and TNF/perforin double-deficient mice. Journal of Immunology 165:5-9.

White, D. W., V. P. Badovinac, X. Fan and J. T. Harty. 2000. Adaptive immunity against Listeria monocytogenes in the absence of the p55 tumor necrosis factor receptor type I. Infection and Immunity 68(8):4470-4476.