*The award lecture and its accompanying slides are also available to watch here: https://youtu.be/fM6aPNO8MxY.
The Herbert Tabor Research Award is given for outstanding, innovative accomplishments in biological chemistry and molecular biology and contributions to the community of scientists. Margaret Phillips is chair of the biochemistry department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where her research focuses on metabolism in protozoan parasites. Her lab studies essential enzymes controlling pyrimidine biosynthesis in the parasite that causes malaria and polyamine synthesis in the trypanosome that causes sleeping sickness. Her lab has used structural-guided drug design to optimize and develop pyrimidine synthesis inhibitors with potential to become antimalarial drugs. Learn more: https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/people/081623/asbmb-names-2024-award-winners.
