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Davor Pavlovic (born 24 May 1979); is a biochemist born in Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) best known for his discovery of a protein called p7 that is an integral part of Hepatitis C virus.
He attended the Ackworth School from 1995 to 1997 after which he enrolled at University of Huddersfield gaining a first class honours degree in Biochemistry. In the year 2000 he spent a year in a laboratory of Prof Ten Feizi at Imperial College London studying the mechanisms governing leukocyte rolling, part of the signalling cascade that regulates inflammatory responses in the body. He published these studies, in 2002 in Journal of Immunological Methods and Glycobiology. In 2001 he received a scholarship at University of Oxford and started his doctoral studies under supervision of Prof Raymond Dwek and Prof Nicole Zitzmann. There, he worked with a Nobel prize winner Dr Baruch Samuel Blumberg and uncovered that a Hepatitis C viral protein p7 acts as an ion channel and showed that it's activity can be inhibited by iminosugars. This work was published in 2003 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Having gained his PhD in 2005 he moved to Cardiovascular Division at King's College London where he took up a postdoctoral position with Prof Michael J Shattock. At King's College London he published a number of studies, on regulation of intracellular sodium in the heart for which he received a young investigator award by the European Society of Cardiology at the Heart Failure Meeting in Lisbon in 2013.
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