Adele Lehane received the ASBMB Mannatech Award in Modern Metabolic Biochemistry for 'the most outstanding metabolic biochemistry publication, published in the preceding year, by a PhD student or researcher with no more than seven years post doctoral experience'.

The publication was: Feedback inhibition of pantothenate kinase regulates pantothenol uptake by the malaria parasite (2007) J. Biol. Chem. 282, 25395-25405 by Lehane, A.M., Marchetti, R.V., Spry, C., van Schalkwyk, D.A., Teng, R., Kirk, K. and Saliba K.J.