MBI Member Awards 2015-2020
Grace Aldrovandi
2015 Silver Awards, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Valerie Arboleda
2017-2022 Office of the NIH Director, Early Independence Award (DP5)
2016-17 Daljit S. and Eliane Sarkaria Fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Reza Ardehali
2015 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award
Arjun Deb
2016 Bernard and Joan Marshall Research Excellence Award, British Society of Cardiovascular Research
Keriann Backus
2019 Kolin Endowed Chair
2019 V Scholar Research Award
2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award
2019 Beckman Young Investigator
Steven Bensinger
2016 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Award for Outstanding Research
Gal Bitan
2018 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
Douglas Black
2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Louis Bouchard
2015 ΑΧΣ (UCLA) Glenn T. Seaborg Award
Paul Boutros
2018 Bernard and Francine Dorval Prize
Guillaume Chanfreau
2017 American Cancer Society Determination Award
Jau-Nian Chen
2017 UCLA Life Sciences Innovation Award
Marie-Francoise Chesselet
2016 Legion of Honor
Heather Christofk
2017 Wachtel Cancer Research Award Honorable Mention
Steven Clarke
2018 William C. Rose Award
Steven Cole
2016 Norman Cousins Award, Psychoneuroimmunlogy Research Society
Hilary Coller
2020 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Award – Educational Innovation
2019 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Award – Excellence in Research, Associate Professor
Stephanie Correa
2020 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
Lindsay De Biase
2019 Glen Foundation and American Foundation for Aging Research Grant for Junior Faculty
2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
2017 NIDA Postdoctoral Fellow Mentoring Award
2017 NIDA Women’s Science Advisory Committee, Excellence in Scientific Research Award
2016 Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIH
2016 Second Place; Poster awards, Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO
2015 Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIH
Luis de la Torre-Ubieta
2015 Image Award, Wellcome Trust
Laura DeNardo
2018 Mentored Scientist Career Development Award (K01), NIMH
2017 Allison J. Doupe Fellowship, McKnight Endowment Fund
Steven Dubinett
2019 William S. Middleton Award
Pascal Egea
2013-2018 Alexander and Renee Kolin Endowed Professorship of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
David Eisenberg
2020 Passano Award Laureate
2017 Paul Sigler Prize
2015 Legacy Award
2015 ADBMB Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science
Juli Feigon
2020 Diverisy, Equity, and Inclusion Research Award
2017 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award
William Gelbart
2020 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
2017 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
Andrew Goldstein
2017 Research Scholar Award, American Cancer Society
2017 Research Career Development Award, STOP Cancer
Brigitte Gomperts
2018 Margaret E. Early Award for Cancer Research, Margaret E. Early Medical Research Trust
2017 Member Seed Grant (Lung Cancer), STOP Cancer Foundation
Tamir Gonen
2018 Chair, Biophysical Society CryoEM subgroup
2017 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Michel Grunstein
2018 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Award
2016 Gruber Genetics Prize
Elissa Hallem
2020 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
Oliver Hankinson
2019 Society of Toxicology Education Award
Elaine Hsiao
2019 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Award – Excellence in Research, Assistant Professor
2018 Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award
Jimmy Hu
2016 K99/R00 award from NIH NIDCR
Patricia Johnson
2019 Elected to National Academy of Sciences
2019 Alice C.C. Wang Award
Michael Jung
2019 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research
2016 Glenn T. Seaborg Award Medalist
2016 Richard C. Tolman Award, Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society
Carla Koehler
2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Leonid Kruglyak
2016 Edward Novitski Prize
2015 Curt Stern Award
Ohyun Kwon
2019 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award
2018 Boehringer Ingelheim Green Chemistry Award
2018 UC CAI Technology Development Award
Frank Laski
2016 Distinguished Teaching Award
Marc Liesa-Roig
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Alumni of Excellence Award, Barcelona, Spain
James Lloyd-Smith
2016 Distinguished Teaching Award
William Lowry
2015 Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
Aldons “Jake” Lusis
2015 Anitschkow Prize in Atherosclerosis Research
Kelsey Martin
2016 National Academy of Medicine
2016 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
Sabeeha Merchant
2016 Elected to the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Jeff F. Miller
2015 Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences
Sherie Morrison
2019 UCLA Medal Recipient
2016 Immunology, Inflammation, Infection and Transplantation (I3T) Excellence in Research Award
Bennett Novitch
2017 Ablon Fellowship Award
2016 Pilot Project award, UCLA Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
Rachel Ogorzalek Loo
2020 American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Al Yergey Mass Spectrometry Scientist Award
Matteo Pellegrini, Ph.D.
2019 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
Kathrin Plath
2016 HHMI Faculty Scholar
April Pyle
2015-2016 UCLA Life Sciences Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Publication
Margot Quinlan
2018 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
Jose Rodriguez
2020 Sloan Research Fellowship
2019 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
2018 Pew Scholars Award
2018 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant
2017 Searle Scholar
Alvaro Sagasti
2017 Distinguished Teaching Award
Stephen Smale
2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
Alice Soragni
2019 ISSNAF / AR-TER Visiting Junior Scientist
2018 Lynda’s Fund Pilot Study Award
2018 Scialog Fellow
Melissa Spencer
2018 Golden Test Tube Award, UCLA Department of Neurology
Elizabeth Tarling
2016 Best Poster Award (1st Place – Post-doc/Assistant Researcher/Assistant Professor), Gordon Research Conference on Lipoprotein Metabolism.
2016 Travel Award, Rare Lung Diseases International Research Conference
2015 Best Poster Award (3rd Place, Basic Research – Junior Faculty), UCLA Department of Medicine Research Day.
Sotirios Tetradis
2016 American Dental education Association Leadership Institute Fellow
Peter Tontonoz
2020 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Jorge Torres
2019 Outstanding College/University Mentor Award presented by SACNAS
2019 Outstanding Hispanic student Mentor Award presented by SACNAS
2016 AXE Glenn T. Seaborg Award
Thomas Vallim
2017 Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award, AHA 2017
2016 David L. Williams Award Winner, Kern Lipid Conference
2015 Irvine H. Page Young Investigator Research Award Winner
David Walker
2015 The Julie Martin Mid-Career Award in Aging Research
Owen Witte
2016 Kornberg-Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences, Stanford Medical School
2016 Award for Distinguished Research in Biomedical Sciences, Association of American Medical Colleges
2015 G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, American Association for Cancer Research
Lili Yang
2019 Ablon Scholar Award, UCLA
2018 Quest Award, CIRM
2017 Outstanding New Investigator Award from the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT)
2017 Young Investigator Award, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
2017 Life Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Publication, UCLA
2016 BSCRC-RHF Research Award, Rose Hills Foundation
2016 Partnering Opportunity for Translational Research Projects Award, CIRM
2015 GTSN Challenge Award for Lethal Prostate Cancer, Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF)
2015 Research Career Development Award, STOP CANCER Foundation
Xia Yang
2016 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award
Todd Yeates
2015 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Stephen Young
2016 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Lawrence Zipursky
2018 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize
2015 Louisa Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
