Margaret A. Phillips (born November 3, 1959) is an American biologist who is the Sam G. Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.[1]
Margaret A. Phillips | |
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| Born | November 3, 1959 |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco University of California, Davis |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| Thesis | Ornithine decarboxylase in the African trypanosome (1988) |
Early life and education
editPhillips was born in Cleveland.[2] She was an undergraduate student at the University of California, Davis, where she studied biochemistry.[2][3] In 1981, Philips joined Syva, a biochemistry company in Palo Alto, California.[2] After two years she returned to university, as a graduate student at the University of California, San Francisco and the laboratory of C. C. Wang.[4][5] She remained at the University of California, San Francisco as a postdoctoral scholar with William J. Rutter.[6]
Research and career
editPhillips was appointed to the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1992, where she was promoted to Carolyn R. Bacon Professor in 2009 and Chair of the Department in 2016.[6] Her research considers the development of novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of malaria.[7]
Awards and honors
edit- 1999 Scholar Award in Molecular Parasitology[2]
- 2010 Medicines for Malaria Venture Project of the Year[8]
- 2021 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences[1]
Selected publications
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- W Armand Guiguemde; Anang A. Shelat; David C. Bouck; et al. (1 May 2010). "Chemical genetics of Plasmodium falciparum". Nature. 465 (7296): 311–315. doi:10.1038/NATURE09099. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 2874979. PMID 20485428. Wikidata Q29617272.
- N. V. Grishin; M A Phillips; E J Goldsmith (July 1995). "Modeling of the spatial structure of eukaryotic ornithine decarboxylases". Protein Science. 4 (7): 1291–304. doi:10.1002/PRO.5560040705. ISSN 0961-8368. PMC 2143167. PMID 7670372. Wikidata Q24675092.
References
edit- ^ a b "2021 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ a b c d "Margaret Phillips, Ph.D. - Faculty Profile - UT Southwestern". profiles.utsouthwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "Meet the PI: Phillips Lab – UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas". www.utsouthwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "Remembering C.C. Wang". UCSF School of Pharmacy. 2017-08-28. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "Giving parasites their due". www.asbmb.org. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ a b "Two UTSW Faculty Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Sciences". www.newswise.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "Researchers have shown that a drug currently in testing shows potential to cure malaria". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "UT Southwestern research team's anti-malarial work wins international Project of the Year award". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2021-05-10.