John-Stephen Taylor

Professor of Chemistry

Washington University, St. Louis

taylor@wustl.edu 

Office: Lab Sciences 401A

Office Phone: 314-935-6721

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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)

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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 DNA photoproducts.  Chemisensitized DNA photoproduct formation in melanocytes.  Photochemical probes for non-B DNA structures in vivo.

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