IFI Faculty Awards

  • Montserrat C. Anguera, PhD- Recipient of the 2020 Penn Vet COVID-19 Pilot Award
  • Will Bailis, PhD- Recipient of the Paul Allen Fronteris Group Distinguished Investigator Award
  • Jorge Henao-Mejia, MD, PhD- Recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Childhood Obesity Studies
  • Gregory Beatty, MD, PhD- Recipient of the inaugural AACR-The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research “Science of the Patient” Grant Award
  • Scott Canna, MD- Inducted into Henry Kunkel Society and recipient of the Italian HLH Society Ricciardi Award for Best Scientific Manuscript
  • Edward Cantu, III, MD- Appointed to the Board of Directors for the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, appointed to the Board of Organ Recovery Collaborative Network Standards appointed to the Board of Quality Assurance Committee for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
  • Sara Cherry, PhD- Inaugural recipient of the Matis Family Institute for Immunology Investigator Award
  • Cesar de la Fuente Nunez, PhD-  Selected as Scialog Fellow by RCSA, the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, recipient of the 2020 Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry lecture award, named as of the 30 Rising Leaders in the Life Sciences by In Vivo magazine, recipient of the ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award, the Nemirovsky Prize, AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award, Selected as Chair of panel. World Laureates Forum, Computational Biology Summit, recipient of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Award, Honorific Member, Colombian Society of Chemical Engineers, recipient of the Talento Joven e Innovador, Universidade da Coruña, named a Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering and awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) CMBE Rising Star Award
  • George Hajishengallis, DDS, PhD- Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate/Web-of-Science) in 2020
  • Sarah Henrickson, MD, PhD- Recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Childhood Obesity Studies and recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation Physician Scientist Award
  • De’Broski Herbert, PhD- Recipient of the 2020 Penn Vet COVID-19 Pilot Award and included on Cell Mentor’s List of 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America
  • David Hill, MD, PhD- Recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award
  • Christopher Hunter, PhD- Recipient of the 2020 Penn Vet COVID-19 Pilot Award
  • Stuart Isaacs, PhD- Recipient of the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research
  • Carl June, MD- Recipient of the Dan David Prize in Molecular Medicine, elected to the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Sanford Lorraine Cross Award
  • Kellie Ann Jurado, PhD- Recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Childhood Obesity Studies and included on Cell mentor’s list of 1000 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists
  • Elizabeth Lennon, DVM, PhD- Recipient of the 2020 Penn Vet COVID-19 Pilot Award
  • Monica Mainigi, MD- Recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Childhood Obesity Studies
  • Michael May, PhD- Recipient of the 2020 Penn Vet COVID-19 Pilot Award
  • Nuala Meyer, MD- Elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation
  • Michael Mitchell, PhD- Recipient of the 40 Under 40 Alumni Award from Stevens Institute of Technology and the 2020 Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator Award
  • Jonni Moore, PhD- Appointed President of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry
  •  Dan Powell, PhD- Recipient of the Distinguished Career Alumni Award from Jefferson College of Life Sciences Alumni Association at Thomas Jefferson University, Appointed Co-Chair of the Society of Immunotherapy for Cancer’s Education
  • Ellen Puré, PhD- Recipient of the 2020 Penn Vet COVID-19 Pilot Award
  • Neil Romberg, MD- Recipient of the Lady Barbara Colyton Prize for Autoimmune Research
  • Marco Ruella, MD- Recipient of Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation Award, the Emerson Collective Award the Patent Award at the 5th Annual Celebration of Innovation, Penn Center for Innovation, and selected as Italian Scientists and Scholars in North American Foundation (ISNAFF) mentor
  • Sunny Shin, PhD- Recipient of the Michael P. Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award
  • Christoph Thaiss, PhD- Recipient of the Pew Biomedical Scholars Award and recipient of the Katherine E. David Scholarship
  • Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD- Recipient of the Team Science Award from American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
  • Sarah Tishkoff, PhD- Elected as a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Golnaz Vahedi, PhD- Recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Childhood Obesity Studies, recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award and W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, and promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Genetics
  • David Weiner, PhD- Included on nature Biotech’s list of Top 20 translational Researchers for the impact and number of his patents and publications
  • Drew Weissman, MD, PhD- Co-Recipient of the Brandeis University’s Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research, Advocacy Award from Research!America, Brandeis University Alumni Achievement Award, Francis C. Wood Department of Medicine Award for Research, Inaugural President’s Distinguished Speaker from the Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty at Penn
  • Matthew Weitzman, PhD- Recipient of the Arthur Asbury Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award