John E. Tavis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1990
tavisje@slu.edu

Current Grant support:

•  NIH (NIDDK) U01, Response of HCV to therapy in African Americans, 2001-2006.
•  NIH (NIAID) R01, Analysis of the Hepadnaviral Reverse Transcriptase, 2002-2007.
•  NIH (NIAID) R01 (Morrison, PI), Functional analysis of HSV2 tegument proteins in mice, 2004-2009.

Previous Grant support:

•   American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award, 1996-1998.
•   NIH (NIAID) R29, Analysis of the Hepadnaviral Reverse Transcriptase, 1996-2001.
•  Research Supplement for Support of Underrepresented Minorities (Supplement to NIH R29, support for Babatunde Adeyemo), 1997-1999.
•  National Foundation for Infectious Disease, Mutational Analysis of the Enzymatic Activities of the Hepatitis B Virus Polymerase,1996-1997.
•  St. Louis University Faculty Non-Salary Incentive Award, 1999, 2000.
•  St. Louis University Seed Grant in Support of Collaborative Research (Adrian Di Bisceglie, MD, Co-Investigator), 2000.
•  St. Louis University SLU2000 Seed Grant (Lynda Morrison, Ph.D., Co-Investigator), 2000.
•  NIH (NCI) R21, Nonencapsidated HBV P protein as an anticancer target and diagnostic, 2001-2003.