2004 - Mason Guest Scholar Award, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
2005 - Mechanotransduction & Gravity Signaling in Biological Systems Gordon Conference Travel Award
2005 - V.C. Joshi Memorial Prize, Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2010 - Mt. Sinai Scholar, Mt. Sinai Foundation and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2011 - Ruth McLean Bowman Bowers Excellence in Research Award, The Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
2013 - AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar, Englewood, CO (nominated and sponsored by Pamela B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of CWRU School of Medicine)
2018 - Dean’s Innovation Fund Award, (sponsored by J. Larry Jameson, M.D., Ph.D., Dean Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)