Meet the Principal Investigator
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
Yue Wen Deng
M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Crystallography and pyrimidine metabolism in Trypanosoma brucei
Michael Pontikos
M.D.-Ph.D. Student
Research Interest: Metabolism and drug discovery in Trypanosoma brucei
Sneha Ray, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Drug discovery in Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania
Sophia (Shihua) Zhong
Technician
Research Interest: Developing inhibitors of Trypanosoma brucei polyamine biosynthetic enzymes
Ann Y Huang, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Research Interest: Drug discovery in malaria and eumycetoma
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 |