2004 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award[8] 2005 Elected Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows[9] 2007 Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize of the Society for the Study of Evolution[10] 2008 Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA) Award [4] 2009 Leon Levy Foundation Young Investigator Award[11] 2010 Gerstner Young Investigator Award[12] 2012 Alice Hamilton Award[13] 2012 Speaker at TEDMED[14] 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science[9][15] 2015 Carnegie Corporation of New York Great Immigrants Award[16] 2015 NYSCF - Robertson Stem Cell Prize[17]