Honors and Awards
-Phi-Beta-Kappa 1987
-B.S. with highest distinction and honors 1987
-National Science Foundation graduate student fellowship 1988
-National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship 1994
-Scripps Research Institute Society of Fellows Research Symposium first prize and travel award 1997
-New York City Speaker's Fund for Biomedical Research award 1999
-National Parkinson Foundation award 2002
-Dorothy Rodbell Cohen Foundation for Cancer Research award 2004
-Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist award 2006