[6] He has served on numerous advisory boards of several professional organizations, including NIH, NSF, Department of Energy, and European Science Foundation.
In 1969, he earned his doctoral degree in physiology and biophysics for his work planar lipid bilayers in the lab of J. Walter Woodbury.
[7] Prior to completing his postdoctoral studies at the University of Virginia in 1972, White served two years in the U.S. Army to the rank of captain.
[1] White began his academic career as an assistant professor in what is now the department of physiology and biophysics at the University of California, Irvine in 1972.
[1] White’s research is focused on membrane protein folding and stability, energetics of protein-bilayer interactions, experimentally determined hydrophobicity scales, translocon-assisted folding of membrane proteins, structure of fluid lipid bilayers, and MD simulations of lipid bilayers.
[13] In 2005, he introduced an algorithm for computing the absolute partitioning free energies of unfolded peptides into the phosphatidylcholine bilayer interface.
[14] In his studies, he also described how partitioning of membrane-active oligopeptides into membrane interfaces plays a significant role in terms of promoting the formation of secondary structure.