Prof Meg Phillips

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.

She is currently a Section editor of PLoS Pathogens and serves on the editorial boards of PNAS and mBio.

Her past board and committee service includes Medicines for Malaria Venture’s Expert Scientific Advisory Committee, the scientific advisory committees for the Tropical Disease Initiative at Dundee and of the University of Glasgow, Wellcome Trust Center for Molecular Parasitology, the National Institutes of Health's Tropical Medical and Parasitology/Pathogenic Eukaryotes study section and the WHO Steering Committee on Drug Discovery Research.

Phillips has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. She is a past co-director of the Marine Biological Laboratory's Biology of Parasitism Course, co-chair of the Polyamines Gordon Conference, co-Chair of the Gordon conferences in Biology of Host Parasite Interactions co-organizer of the Molecular Parasitology Meeting, and co-organizer of the Keystone Symposium “Drugs against Parasitic Protozoa.”