He is a recipient of numerous scientific honors and awards including the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, Pew-Steward scholar in Cancer Research, a Searle Scholar, Ben Barres Early Career Investigator at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and is the recipient of the Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to biomedical research” and a 2020 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award.