Honors and Recognition
2016: Alzheimer’s San Diego Courage and Hope Award
2014: Thomson Reuters World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list of highly cited researchers
2011: Killam Lecturer, Montreal Neurological Institute
2010: Journal of Lipid Research Lecturer, Keystone Symposium on Bioactive Lipids: Biochemistry and Diseases, Kyoto, Japan
2007: Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Neuroscience, LSU Medical School
1999-2006: Independent Scientist Award, NIMH
1994-1999: First Award, NIMH
1993-1995: Basil O’Connor Scholar (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation), UCSD
1992-1995: Klingenstein Fellow in the Neurosciences, UCSD
1992-1994: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, UCSD
1988-1991: Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
1981-1988: Trainee, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), Stanford University School of Medicine