Faculty Member of

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The University of Georgia

James Travis
Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
B.S., University of Manitoba
Ph.D. (1964) University of Minnesota

Dr. Travis' current research involves the determination of the biochemical basis for the development of pulmonary emphysema, including the role of plasma proteinase inhibitors, neutrophil and mast cell proteinases, and connective tissue proteins in abnormal lung turnover. In addition, projects are also being continued which involve the role of proteolytic enzymes and inhibitors in the development of periodontitis, the role of pollen proteases contributing to asthma, and development of proteolytic inhibitors to fire ant digestsive enzymes. Dr. Travis has served on study sections of NIH and his research is supported by an NIH Merit Award. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Infection and Immunity, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta and he has been a Career Development Awardee of the NIH.

Full Publications: 250+

Dr. Travis made a bet with his laboratory that if he published over 200 scientific papers, he would dye his hair blue. After two years of us nagging and a total of 250 publications, we finally got him to live up to his end of the bargain! This picture was taken with his wife at the 16th Winter School on Recent Developments of Proteinases and their Inhibitors in Tiers, Italy in March, 1998.

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