People

Meet the Principal Investigator

Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.

Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.

Margaret Phillips, Ph.D., has been a tenured Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center since 2002, and she is currently Chair of the Department of Biochemistry with a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Pharmacology. She holds the Sam G. Winstead and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry. She received her B.S. in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis, in 1981 and her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1988.

Current Lab Members

Xiaoyi Deng, Ph.D.

Instructor
Research Interest: Crystallography and drug discovery in malaria

Xiaoyi Deng, Ph.D.

Yue Wen Deng

M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Crystallography and pyrimidine metabolism in Trypanosoma brucei

Yue Wen Deng

Farah El_Mazouni, M.S.

Senior Technician
Research Interest: Drug discovery in malaria

Farah El_Mazouni, M.S.

Leah Imlay, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Drug discovery in malaria

Leah Imlay, Ph.D

Michael Pontikos

M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Metabolism and drug discovery in Trypanosoma brucei

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Sneha Ray, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Drug discovery in Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania

Sneha Ray, Ph.D.

Sophia (Shihua) Zhong

Technician
Research Interest: Developing inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei polyamine biosynthetic enzymes

Sophia (Shihua) Zhong

Ann Y Huang, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate
Research Interest: Drug discovery in malaria and eumycetoma

Ann Y Huang, Ph.D.

Arturo Casas Jr (Art)

Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Drug discovery in malaria

Arturo Casas Jr (Art)

Nhi Ho

Research Technician
Research Interest: Drug discovery in malaria

Nhi Ho

Jennifer Palacios

Lab Technical Assistant I

Jennifer Palacios

Past Trainees

    Name Degree Dates
    Aloysus Lawong M.D./PH.D. 2015 - 2020
    Chris Leija Ph.D.  
    Suong Nguyen M.D./Ph.D. 2009 - 2014
    Chelsea Pratt Ph.D. 2008 - 2013
    Ema Capota M.S. 2008 - 2012
    Nahir Velez Ph.D. 2007 - 2012
    Jeongmi Lee Ph.D. 2003 - 2008
    Erin Willert Ph.D. 2003 - 2008
    Rahul Shah Ph.D. 2003 - 2007
    Nicholas Malmquist Ph.D. 2002 - 2007
    Melissa Rodgers Ph.D. 2001 - 2007
    Tracy Clyne-Beswick M.D./Ph.D. 2000 - 2005
    Laurie Jackson Ph.D. 1997 -2002
    Jared Abbott M.D./Ph.D. 1996 - 2002
    David P. Myers M.D./Ph.D. 1996 - 2001
    Lisa Kinch Ph.D. 1995 - 2000
    Deirdre L. Brekken Ph.D. 1994 - 1998
    Nick Grishin Ph.D. 1994 - 1998
    Teddy Scott Ph.D. 1993 - 1997
    Name Position Dates
    Leann Buhrow Postdoc 2015 - 2020
    Jacqueline Njoroge Postdoc 2012 - 2015
    Qiong Li Postdoc 2010 - 2015
    Sandesh Regmi Postdoc 2010 - 2013
    Yanjing Xiao Postdoc 2006 - 2013
    Savitha Kalidas Postdoc/Assistant Instructor 2009 - 2013
    2006 - 2009
    Harold Brooks Postdoc 1995 - 1998
    Tu Huynh Postdoc 2002 - 2006
    Jeff Baldwin Postdoc 2001 - 2006
    Margaret Harmon Postdoc 1997 - 2001
    Andrei Osterman Postdoc 1993 - 1999