Awards

The achievements of many members of our lab have been recognized. We are proud of them!

  • Elmer Zapata-Mercado, graduate student
    • Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) in Membrane Structure and Assembly at the 2019  Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
  • Alex Komin, graduate student
    • Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) in Bioengineering at the 2018  Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
  • Lucy Li, undergraduate student
    • Best Senior Design Talk, 2017
  • Nuala Del Piccolo, Ph.D Candidate
    • Third place in the Graduate Poster Competition at the 2016 National Conference of The Society for Women Engineers
  • Sarah Kim, graduate student
    • 2nd Place INBT Poster Competition, 2017
  • Sarah Kim, graduate student
    • Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA), Poster Competition in Permeation and Transport at the 2017 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
  • Sarah Kim, graduate student
    • Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA), Poster Competition in Membrane Structure and Assembly at the 2016 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
  • Eric Bressler, undergraduate student (Class of 2014)
    • Best Senior Design Poster Award, 2014
  • Alex Komin, graduate student
    • Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center Fellowship, 2013
  • Chris King, graduate student
    • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013
  • Nitish Niphadkar, undergraduate student
    • Fall 2010 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award
  • Sarvenaz Sarabipour, graduate student
    • Student research achievement award, 2010 Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, CA
  • Edwin Li, associate research scholar
    • Humboldt Fellowship, 2009
  • Edwin Li, assistant research scholar
    • ASBMB travel award, New Orleans, LA 2009
  • Lijuan He, graduate student
    • Student Research Achievement Award, 2008 Meeting of the Biophysical Society, Long Beach, CA
  • Rachel Funyak, graduate student
    • NSF Predoctoral Fellowship
  • Ricky Soong, post-doctoral fellow
  • Edwin Li, assistant research scholar
    • Best poster award, International workshop, Functional Solid-Supported Biomolecular Lipid Membranes, Ringberg  Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, September 2005
  • Xue Han, graduate student
    • Student Research Achievement Award, 50th annual meeting of the biophysical society, 18-22 February 2006, Salt Lake City, UT (click here for pictures)
    • Bowles Fellowship
    • Travel award for the international ANS conference
  • Lijuan He, graduate student
    • Dean’s Fellowship
  • Jamie Spangler, undergraduate student
    • Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  • Genevieve Gallagher, undergraduate student
    • Bankard Research Award in Bioengineering
  • Shannon O’Connor, undergraduate student
    • Westgate scholarship