Faculty Awards

Therese Markow Wins George W. Beadle Award from Genetics Society of America

Professor Therese Markow has received the George W. Beadle Award from the Genetics Society of America “for outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers.” The award was established by the society in 1999 and named for its past president, who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells.


Jim Posakony Named 2011 AAAS Fellow

Jim Posakony

Professor Jim Posakony is one of nine faculty members at UC San Diego named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization. He and UC San Diego professors Alexandra Newton, Joseph O’Connor, Carol Padden, Dena Plemmons, Michael Sailor, Lu Jeu Sham, Lisa Tauxe and Paul Yu were among 539 individuals selected this year by colleagues in their disciplines to be honored by the association for “efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”


Ananda Goldrath named Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar

Associate Professor Ananda Goldrath has been named a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar. She will receive a research award of $110,000 per year from the society for the next five years for her study on the Transcriptional Control of Lymphocyte Differentiation and Transformation. Goldrath received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School, where she was the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation-Irvington Fellow. She is also a Pew Scholar.


Julian Schroeder

UCSD Biological Studies professor Julian Schroeder awarded 2010 Cozzarelli Prize

A paper co-authored by Professor Julian Schroeder on the identification of genes that control toxic metal accumulation in plants that was published last November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has won a 2010 Cozzarelli Prize.

Papers selected for the Cozzarelli Prize were chosen from more than 3,700 research articles published by PNAS in 2010 and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the National Academy of Sciences is organized.


Biology Professor Terrence Sejnowski Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Biology Professor Terrence Sejnowski has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Sejnowski, who is Francis Crick professor and director of the computational neurobiology laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and a professor of neurobiology at UCSD, was cited by the academy “for contributions to artificial and real neural network algorithms and applying signal processing models to neuroscience.”

Sejnowski was one of 68 new members and nine foreign associates who were elected this year to the NAE, bringing the total U.S. membership of the academy to 2,290 and the number of foreign associates to 202.


Past Awards

Date Title
01/11/11 Yishi Jin Named as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
11/04/10 Assistant Professor Emily Troemel Awarded with Packard Fellowship for Science & Engineering
04/27/10 Two Division of Biological Sciences Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
04/19/10 Biology Professor William McGinnis Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04/14/10 UC San Diego Biologist Receives 2010 World Ecology Award
03/31/10 Dean Steve Kay Among UC San Diego Faculty Excellence Awards Honorees
12/17/09 Dean Steve Kay and Biology Professor Robert Schmidt named 2009 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
10/23/09 Jim Wilhelm Receives 2009 New Scholar Award in Aging
04/20/09 Martin Yanofsky named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04/8/09 Nigel Crawford Presented Faculty Excellence Award
02/5/09 Kit Pogliano Elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology
10/13/08 Sejnowski Elected to Institute of Medicine
05/27/08 UC San Diego Biology Professor Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
04/29/08 Two Plant Biologists at UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences
09/10/07 Professor Maarten Chrispeels Named an inaugural Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
06/19/07 Professor Ananda W. Goldrath named 2007 Pew Scholar
11/23/06 Professors Julian I. Schroeder and Martin F. Yanofsky named AAAS Fellows in Biological Sciences
10/10/06 UCSD Faculty Named to Prestigious National Organization
07/17/06 Amy Pasquinelli named 2006 Distinguished Young Scholar
07/26/06 UCSD Biologist Receives Prestigious Presidential Award
05/8/06 Kiger and Traver Named Kimmel Scholars
04/27/06 Hoekstra and Traver Named Beckman Young Investigator Winners
3/1/06 Young Faculty Awarded Prestigious Sloan Foundation Fellowships
1/18/06 National Academy of Sciences Awards Major Prize to UCSD Chemistry and Biology Professor
10/28/05 Professor Vivek Malhotra named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
10/18/05 Dr. Gentry Patrick, recipient of this year's Ray Thomas Edwards Award
5/30/05 Jing W. Wang, assistant professor of biology, has been named a 2005 Searle Scholar
4/20/04 Two UCSD Professors In Biology And Physics Elected To National Academy Of Sciences
3/13/04 Amy Pasquinelli has won The Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award of the Peter Gruber Foundation
10/30/03 Maarten J. Chrispeels Named Fellow Of American Association For The Advancement of Science
09/12/03 Immo Scheffler receives UMDF Sage Fellowship for studying mitochondrial function
06/30/03 Mauricio Montal Named Biophysical Society Fellow
06/18/03 Francis Crick Wins First 'Life Sciences Achievement Award'
11/07/02 Biological Sciences' Al Hilde Named UCSD Veteran Of The Year
10/07/02 Biology Professor at Salk and UCSD Wins 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine
5/16/01 UCSD Professors In The Biology And Physical Sciences Divisions Honored For Achievements
11/21/00 Founding Dean Named For UCSD's Division Of Biology
11/02/00 UCSD Professors In The Biology And Physical Sciences Divisions Honored For Achievements
10/31/00 UCSD Scientists Awarded $3-Million Biocomplexity Grant
6/22/00 UCSD Professors in Natural Sciences Honored for Achievements