Judith Simcox PhD, is an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and an Assistant Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her lab works to identify functions for plasma lipids, determine how they are regulated, and discovery the function of plasma lipids in metabolic disease. This work has led to the receipt of the ASBMB Walter A Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research and the JLR Rising Star in Lipid Research Award.