Outstanding Faculty
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Faculty Awards
School of Biological Sciences faculty have won awards within the university and in the greater nation and world. Find out more about the awards by following the news article link. Teaching awards recognize faculty's service at the university. A list of our faculty who are members of honorary organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences is also available on Faculty Honors.
2021
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 22 | Elina Zúñiga | Fellow American Academy of Microbiology |
| Feb 02 | Sonya Neal | Inclusive Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Feb 02 | Shelley Halpain | Inclusive Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Jan 22 | Stacey Glasgow | Hellman Fellowship UC San Diego |
2020
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 21 | Diana Rennison | Early Career Award Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution |
| Dec 21 | Diana Rennison | Jasper Loftus-Hill Young Investigator’s Award American Society of Naturalists |
| Nov 20 | Alisa Huffaker | 2020 CAREER Award National Science Foundation |
| Oct 08 | Maho Niwa | Allen Distinguished Investigator Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group |
| Sep 21 | Yishi Jin | American Society for Cell Biology Fellow American Society for Cell Biology |
| Aug 10 | Julian Schroeder | Stephen Hales Prize American Society of Plant Biologists |
| Jul 30 | Randy Hampton | Outstanding Faculty Award Sixth College |
| Jun 25 | Byungkook Lim | Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) National Science Foundation |
| Jun 15 | Sonya Neal | Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Pew Charitable Trusts |
| May 22 | Lorraine Pillus | Revelle College Faculty Fellow Revelle College |
| May 18 | Nick Spitzer | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke R35 Research Program Award National Institutes of Health |
| Feb 12 | Cressida Madigan | Sloan Research Fellow Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
2019
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 20 | Matt Daugherty | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Apr 20 | Cory Root | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Dec 12 | Cressida Madigan | Searle Scholar Searle Scholars Program |
| Dec 05 | Stuart Brody | Outstanding Faculty Emeritus School of Biological Sciences |
| Nov 26 | Stephen Hedrick | Inaugural American Association of Immunology Distinguished Fellow American Association of Immunology |
| Nov 04 | Carolyn Kurle | Changemaker Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Nov 01 | Maarten Chrispeels | Adolph E. Gude Jr. Award American Society of Plant Biologists |
| Oct 01 | Omar Akbari | New Innovator Award National Institutes of Health |
| Jul 30 | Kimberly Cooper | Early Career Award Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
| Jul 31 | David Traver | McCulloch and Till Award International Society for Experimental Hematology |
| Jul 11 | Yimin Zou | Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| Jul 01 | Matthew Banghart | Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Rita Allen Foundation |
| Jul 01 | Kimberly Cooper | CAREER Award National Science Foundation |
| Jun 19 | Randy Hampton | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
| Jun 19 | Stephanie Mel | Outstanding Faculty Award Thurgood Marshall College, UC San Diego |
| Apr 19 | Jens Lykke-Andersen | Chancellor's Associates Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award UC San Diego |
| Mar 11 | Julian Schroeder | Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation |
2018
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 18 | Gulcin Pekkurnaz | Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Rita Allen Foundation |
| Oct 02 | Rachel Dutton | New Innovator Award National Institutes of Health |
| Oct 02 | David Traver | Transformative Research Award National Institutes of Health |
| Aug 28 | Sergey Kryazhimskiy | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Jul 27 | Byungkook Lim | Daniel X. Freedman Award Brain and Behavior Research Foundation |
| Jul 18 | Gulcin Pekkurnaz | Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award Parkinson's Foundation |
| Jul 14 | Susan Golden | Aschoff and Honma Prize for Biological Rhythm Research Aschoff and Honma Memorial Foundation |
| Jun | James Cooke | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
| May 25 | Keefe Reuther | Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award UC San Diego |
| Apr 06 | Enfu Hui | Searle Scholar Searle Scholars Program |
2017
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| James Cooke | Outstanding Professor Award from the Panhellenic Council UC San Diego |
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| Randy Hampton | Panhellenic Society Distinguished Faculty Award | |
| Nov 17 | Donald Helinski | The Revelle Medal UC San Diego |
| Oct 26 | Justin Meyer | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Oct 05 | Emma Farley | New Innovator Award National Institutes of Health |
| Sep 14 | Matthew Banghart | Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award Simons Foundation |
| Sep 14 | Yishi Jin | Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| Apr 07 | Stephanie Mel | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Feb 22 | Sergey Kryazhimskiy | Sloan Research Fellow Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
2016
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Jens Lykke-Andersen | Star Award for extraordinary contributions in scholarship, teaching and service Committee on Academic Personnel, UC San Diego |
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| Sep 27 | Gurol Suel | HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Sep 27 | Clodagh O'Shea | HHMI Faculty Scholar Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Sep 27 | Samara Reck-Peterson | HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
| Mar 28 | Elsa Cleland | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Mar 28 | Darwin Berg | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Mar 23 | Ethan Bier | Allen Distinguished Investigator Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group |
2015
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14 | William Kristan | Award for Education in Neuroscience Society for Neuroscience |
| Oct 14 | Kimberly Cooper | Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
| Oct 06 | Eric Bennett | New Innovator Award National Institutes of Health |
| Oct 06 | Brenda Bloodgood | New Innovator Award National Institutes of Health |
| Jun 11 | Brenda Bloodgood | Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Pew Charitable Trusts |
| Jun 11 | Kimberly Cooper | Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Pew Charitable Trusts |
| Jun 08 | Gurol Suel | Scialog Award The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
| Jun | Cindy Gustafson-Brown | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
| Jun | Randy Hampton | Outstanding Faculty Award Roosevelt College, UC San Diego |
| May 20 | Chih-Ying Su | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Apr 29 | Brenda Bloodgood | Cal-BRAIN Award Cal-BRAIN |
| Apr 15 | Kimberly Cooper | Searle Scholar Searle Scholars Program |
| Apr 15 | Byungkook Lim | Searle Scholar Searle Scholars Program |
2014
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Armour | Excellence in Teaching Award School of Pharmacy, UC San Diego |
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| Jul 20 | Eric Bennett | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Jun 30 | Susan Golden | HHMI Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| May 14 | Takaki Komiyama | McKnight Scholar McKnight Foundation |
| Apr 24 | Shannon Lauberth | Kimmel Scholar Award Sidney Kimmel Foundation |
| Apr 15 | Shannon Lauberth | Kimmel Scholar Award Sidney Kimmel Foundation |
| Apr 15 | Brenda Bloodgood | Searle Scholar Searle Scholars Program |
| Mar 21 | Lin Chao | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
2013
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 19 | Emily Troemel | Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator Burroughs Wellcome Fund |
| Jun 13 | Suckjoon Jun | Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Pew Charitable Trusts |
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Faculty Award Thurgood Marshall College, UC San Diego |
| May 23 | Li-Fan Lu | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| May 23 | Jose Pruneda-Paz | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| Apr 15 | Emily Troemel | Merck Irving Sigal Memorial Award American Academy of Microbiology |
| Mar 21 | Nicholas Spitzer | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Mar 07 | Suckjoon Jun | Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Award Paul G. Allen Family Foundation |
2012
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Mel | Outstanding Professor Award Panhellenic Society, UC San Diego |
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| Oct 23 | Gabriele Wienhausen | Vision and Change Leadership Fellow Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education |
| Aug 06 | Timothy Baker | Distinguished Scientist Award for the Biological Sciences Microscopy Society of America |
| Jun 05 | Carolyn Kurle | Hellman Faculty Fellow UC San Diego |
| May 14 | Gabriele Wienhausen | Athena Pinnacle Award in Education Athena San Diego |
| Mar 22 | James Kadonaga | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Mar 22 | William Kristan | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
| Feb 21 | David Traver | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellow Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Society |
| Feb 21 | Elina Zuniga | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellow Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Society |
| Feb 21 | Ananda Goldrath | Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Fellow Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Society |
| Jan 18 | Therese Markow | George W. Beadle Award Genetics Society of America |
2011
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| James Nieh | Excellence in University Teaching Award SD Science Educator’s Association |
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| Mar 02 | Julian Schroeder | Cozzarelli Prize Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
2010
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Cindy Gustafson-Brown | Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award UC San Diego |
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| Nov 04 | Emily Troemel | Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Faculty Award Sixth College, UC San Diego |
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
2009
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 23 | James Wilhelm | New Scholar Award in Aging Ellison Medical Foundation |
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Teaching Award Warren College, UC San Diego |
| Jun | James Nieh | Distinguished Teaching Award Academic Senate, UC San Diego |
| Apr 08 | Nigel Crawford | Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award UC San Diego |
2007
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Yanofsky | Distinguished Teaching Award Alumni Foundation, UC San Diego |
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| Jun 19 | Ananda Goldrath | Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences Pew Charitable Trusts |
| Jun | Randy Hampton | Outstanding Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
| Jun | Stephanie Mel | Outstanding Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
2005
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
| Apr | Lorraine Pillus | Teaching Excellence Award Associated Students of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences |
2004
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |
2002
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Randy Hampton | Chancellor’s Associates Teaching Award UC San Diego |
2001
| Date | Faculty | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Jun | Chris Armour | Outstanding Science Faculty Award Revelle College, UC San Diego |