2025 Awards and Honors
🏆 Sontag Foundation Distinguished Scientist Awards
Award: Sontag Foundation Distinguished Scientist Awards
Recipients: John Liu, MD, PhD; Christina Tringides, PhD; Tyler Miller, MD, PhD
Recognition: Outstanding research contributions
🧬 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Awards
Award: CIRM DISC0 Foundation Awards (> $7.5M total funding)
Recipients:
Bruce Conklin, MD — $5.1M
Project: Scalable gene-editing therapeutic platform for gene-based treatments
Benoit Bruneau, PhD — $2.4M
Project: Stem cell–based modeling of congenital heart disease genetics
🎤 Faculty Research Lectureship (Social, Behavioral, and Health Policy Sciences)
Award: UCSF Faculty Research Lectureship
Recipient: Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD
Recognition: Research on value, implementation, and optimization of health technologies
🧪 NIH NCI SPORE Grant – Cancer Outcomes Program
Award: $12M NCI SPORE Grant
Program Co-Leads: Susan M. Chang, MD; Franklin W. Huang, MD, PhD
Program Focus: Translational cancer outcomes research (meningioma, prostate, breast cancer)
🧫 St. Baldrick’s Foundation Training Grant
Award: $330,000 Training Grant
Recipient: Alfonso Ramirez-Ristori, MD
Focus: Molecular pediatric pathology and cancer diagnostics training
🔬 AAAS Wachtel Award
Award: AAAS Wachtel Award
Recipient: Karin Pelka, PhD
Recognition: Immune “hubs” in tumor immunotherapy response
🧬 Institute for Human Genetics (IHG) Seed Grants
Award: $50,000 IHG Seed Grants
Recipients:
Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD; Jia Yang, PhD
Project: SLCO1B1 functional characterization for precision medicine
John Liu, MD, PhD; Mitchel Berger, MD
Project: Spatial transcriptomics and CRISPR in glioblastoma
Diana Laird, PhD; Mary Norton, MD
Project: Oogenesis lineage reconstruction using mitochondrial heteroplasmy
🧠 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Award: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Honoree: Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Recognition: Discovery of B cells as drivers of multiple sclerosis
🧬 CIRM Grant – Neurodevelopmental Syndromes
Award: $6.25M CIRM Grant
Lead Recipient: Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD
Collaborators: Nadav Ahituv, PhD; Kevin Bender, PhD; Young Shin Kim, MD, PhD; Roy Ben-Shalom, PhD
Project: Gene-activation therapy for CNS microdeletion syndromes (e.g., 22q deletion syndrome)
2024 Awards and Honors
🧬 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Awards
Awards: ASHG Early Career Award; ASHG Scientific Achievement Award
Recipients:
Loïc Yengo, PhD — Early Career Award
Nadav Ahituv, PhD — Scientific Achievement Award
🧪 Institute for Human Genetics (IHG) Exploratory Grant
Award: $50,000 IHG Exploratory Grant
Recipients: Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS; Kyle Cromer, PhD; Tippi MacKenzie, MD
Project: In utero therapies for non-immune hydrops fetalis and RASopathies
🏛 American Academy of Arts & Sciences Election
Honor: Election to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Honorees: W. Thomas Boyce, MD; Kathleen Giacomini, PhD; Geeta Narlikar, PhD; Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
2023 Awards and Honors
🧬 ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award
Award: ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipient: Neil Risch, PhD, MS
Recognition: Contributions to statistical and population genetics in complex disease
2022 Awards and Honors
🏆 AAAS Fellows
Honor: Election as AAAS Fellows
Honorees: Judith Auerbach, PhD; Atul Butte, MD, PhD; Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS
🧠 American Brain Foundation Award
Award: Scientific Breakthrough Award
Recipient: Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Recognition: B-cell–targeting therapies in multiple sclerosis
2020 Awards and Honors
🎓 UCSF Teaching Award
Award: Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award
Recipient: Katherine Hyland, PhD
🏛 National Academy of Medicine Election
Honor: Election to National Academy of Medicine
Honorees: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD; Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PhD
2019 Awards and Honors
🧪 ASCPT Early Stage Investigator Award
Award: Darrell Abernethy Early Stage Investigator Award
Recipient: Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD
🎓 Excellence in Teaching Awards
Award: Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Awards
Honorees: Marta Sabbadini, PhD, MS, LCGC; Jessica Van Ziffle, PhD
🔬 Faculty Research Lecture Award
Award: UCSF Faculty Research Lecture Award in Translational Science
Recipient: Kathleen Giacomini, PhD
2018 Awards and Honors
🏛 National Academy of Sciences and Related Honors
Honor: Election to National Academies
Honorees:
Ying-Hui Fu, PhD
Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD
Andrej Sali, PhD
2017 Awards and Honors
🏆 Distinguished Service Award
Award: Distinguished Service Award
Recipient: Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD
2016 Awards and Honors
🏛 Chancellor Diversity Award
Award: Chancellor Diversity Award
Recipient: Lauren Weiss, PhD
🏆 Lifetime Achievement in Health Equity
Award: Lifetime Achievement in Health Equity
Recipient: Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH
2015 Awards and Honors
🧬 ASCI Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award
Award: ASCI Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award
Recipient: Louis J. Ptáček, MD
🏆 E. Mead Johnson Award
Award: E. Mead Johnson Award
Recipient: Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
2014 Awards and Honors
🏆 Irene Perstein Award
Award: Irene Perstein Award
Recipient: Sharon Chung, MD
🏛 Pioneer Award (Personalized Medicine World Conference)
Award: Pioneer Award, Personalized Medicine World Conference
Recipient: Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, FRS
2013 Awards and Honors
🎓 Harry Hind Distinguished Professorship
Award: Harry Hind Distinguished Professorship
Recipient: Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH
🏛 Institute of Medicine Election
Honor: Election to the Institute of Medicine
Recipient: Matthew State, MD, PhD
🧪 Leon I. Goldberg Young Investigator Award (ASCPT)
Award: Leon I. Goldberg Young Investigator Award (ASCPT)
Recipient: Nadav Ahituv, PhD
2012 Awards and Honors
🎓 UCSF Faculty Research Lecture Award
Award: UCSF Faculty Research Lecture Award
Recipients: Ying-Hui Fu, PhD; Louis J. Ptáček, MD
🏛 National Academy of Sciences Election
Honor: Election to the National Academy of Sciences
Recipient: Louis J. Ptáček, MD
🏛 Institute of Medicine Election
Honor: Election to the Institute of Medicine
Recipient: Jennifer Puck, MD
2011 Awards and Honors
🧠 Zülch Neuroscience Prize
Award: Zülch Neuroscience Prize
Recipient: Robert Nussbaum, MD
2010 Awards and Honors
🧬 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Award: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Recipients: Ophir Klein, MD, PhD; Lauren Weiss, PhD
🏆 Distinguished Alumnus Award
Award: Distinguished Alumnus Award
Recipient: Walter L. Miller, MD
🏛 Institute of Medicine Election
Honor: Election to the Institute of Medicine
Recipient: Neil Risch, PhD, MS
2009 Awards and Honors
🎓 UCSF Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer
Award: UCSF Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer
Recipient: Walter L. Miller, MD
🏛 American Society for Clinical Investigation Election
Honor: Election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
Recipient: Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH
🧪 Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award
Award: Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award
Recipient: Kathleen Giacomini, PhD
2008 Awards and Honors
🏛 American Academy of Arts & Sciences Election
Honor: Election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Recipient: Louis J. Ptáček, MD
2007 Awards and Honors
🏛 Institute of Medicine Election
Honor: Election to the Institute of Medicine
Recipient: Louis J. Ptáček, MD
2006 Awards and Honors
🏆 Lifetime Achievement Award (Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America)
Award: Lifetime Achievement Award, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
Recipient: Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, DSc, FRS