Honors and Awards
Dr. Hajjar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the AAAS. Dr. Hajjar has received the prestigious Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB)'s Warner Lambert/Parke Davis Award in 1991 for his discoveries on the role of herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of vascular disease; and, in 2003, he received the Chugai Award from FASEB for excellence in mentoring and scholarship in the training of over 30 students and postdoctoral fellows. He has also been the recipient of several other awards from the American Chemical Society, the American Heart Association, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.Dr. David Hajjar is often a guest speaker at major universities lecturing about the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease; and, he is currently on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH.
