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.