John-Stephen Taylor
Professor of Chemistry
Washington University, St. Louis
Education
1976 S.B., Chemisty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Barry Sharpless)
1981 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Columbia University (Gilbert Stork)
1981-3 Postdoc., California Institute of Technology (Peter Dervan)
Honors/Awards
1981-3 Damon Runyan-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund Fellow, 1981-1983
1988-90 Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1988-90
1993 American Chemical Society St. Louis Award, 1993
1993-01 NIH MERIT Award 1993-01
2005,6,7 Special Recognition for Excellence in Mentoring, Washington University
Current Research Interests
Bioorganic and Nucleic Acids Chemistry: Structure-activity relationships of genomic and telomere DNA photoproducts, photocaged DNA, nucleic acid templated reactions, nucleic acid triggered drug release, optical and PET gene expression imaging agents, breast cancer imaging and chemotherapy, siRNA, polyamides, natural products inhibiting or activating heat shock proteins (HSP70, HSP27).
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