Grants, Honors and Awards

As of May 2010

R01: Basic HIV Vaccine Discovery ResearchProtective Role of Subdominant Responses to HIV Restricted by Common HLA Alleles

2010 Eugene J. Van Scott Award for Innovative Therapy of the Skin, awarded at the 68th Annual Meeting of the AmericanAcademy of Dermatology

sMDA Clinical Research Training GrantT32/Trainee Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Biostatistics--HSPHALS Therapy Alliance Research Grant

National Institute of Mental HealthR01 Grant Award: Linkage & Retention: A Randomized Trial to Optimize HIV/TB Carein South Africa

Distinguished Doctorate Alumni AwardUniversity of South Carolina School of Medicine

Elected Vice-President of the American Societyof Gene and Cell Therapy 2010-2011

PCIR Junior Investigator Laboratory Support Awardfrom the Harvard Catalyst

Shafer Fund Grant Project - Glaucoma ResearchFoundation - “sGCa1-deficient Mice: A NovelMurine Model of Elevated IOP and Glaucoma”Scientist Development Grant - AHA National Office“Role of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase in a MurineModel of Gender-Specific Hypertension”ECOR“Role of Soluable Guanylate Cyclase in a MurineModel of Gender-Specific Hypertension”

International Collaborations in InfectiousDisease Research Award, in collaboration withInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal DiseaseResearch in Bangladesh“Protecutive Immunity to Human Cholera in Bangladesh”

American Brain Tumor AssociationBasic Research Fellowship for 2010

Grant from the American Heart Association “The Contribution of Neurovascular Mechanismsto Ischemic Stroke and Migraine in CADASIL”

Grants, Honors and Awards

May 2010

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching forUndergraduate Course: “The Sleeping Brain”Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Four-year renewal of NIAAA grant:“Affective and Conative Changes in Alcoholism”

Partners in Excellence Award for Teamwork

Elected President, American Society for Photobiology

Manuel Garcia Prize from the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics foroutstanding contributions to the official journalof IALP and to the field of communication sciences and disorders

Martin S. Hirsch, MDProfessor of MedicineAwarded Honorary Degree from Hamilton College

President-Elect of the American Societyfor Microbiology

Fumito Ichinose, MDAssociate Professor of AnesthesiaR01 from NHLBI: “Impact of HydrogenSulfide on Outcome of Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation”

2010 Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences

Awarded Best Oral Communication Prize Senior Trainee2010 by the Head and Neck Optical Diagnostics Societyand the International Society of Minimally Invasive Diagnostics for his paper “Ultrahigh-resolution 3D Full-field Optical Coherence Microscopy of the Pulmonary Airways ex vivo”

American Academy of Neurology Foundation2010 Clinical Research Training Fellowship“Improving Access to Neurologic Care”

Charles King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowshipissued by Bank of America

Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th AnniversaryFellowship Program for Scholars at HMS“Role of nitric oxide-soluble guanylate cyclasesignaling in cardiac ischema-reperfusion injury”

Grant: DARPA, “Far Forward Advanced Wound StasisSystem for Intracavity Noncompressible Hemorrhage”Grant: USAMRMC, “Heart-Rate ComplexityAnalysis during Prehospital: Trauma Triage,and In-Hospital Discovery Phases of Trauma Care”

William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award

Grants, Honors and Awards

May 2010

NIH K08 Grant: “Innate Immune Recognition ofCandida albicans Infection in a C. elegans Model”Cancer Research Institute-- Irvington Institute Fellowship”A Caenorhabditis elegans and Cryptococcusneoformans model of the host-pathogen interaction“

2010 AACR Merck Scholar-in-Training Award,“Targeting intracellular VEGF using nanotechnology for subcellular delivery of delivery of bevacizumab improves efficacy of combination therapy against pancreatic cancer”

ASHA International Travel Award to attend The Global Solutions in Researchand Clinical Practices in Communications Sciences and Disorders Conference inAthens, August 22-26, 2010

Inaugurated as President, American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

NIH Mentored Patient-Oriented ResearchCareer Development Award from the NIEHS

Harvard Medical School2009 Dean’s Community Service Award Outstanding personal efforts in serving thelocal community (Science Club for Girls)

Outstanding Young Investigator Award from theSociety of Gene and Cell Therapy for the developmentof a novel Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) enzyme that canbe used to assess brain responses to cell therapy.

NIH Fogarty K01 International ResearchScientist Development Award

HMS 2010 Young Mentor Award2010 Stephen Krane Award (Young Investigator)2010 Fellow--American College of Physicians

President’s Presenter Award presented at the Society for Gynecologic Investigation 2010 annual meeting in Orlando, Florida

2010 MeRIT Junior Faculty Award from theNancy Lurie Marks Foundation for research in Autism

Annual Broyles-Maloney Award from theAmerican Broncho-Esophagological Association

NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award“Examination of the Relationship of Host Cholesterol Biosynthesis to Chronic HCV Infection”