She has won many innovation awards at international exhibitions, including Grand Prix and Gold Medal as a co-inventor for the invention “in vivo testing without animal experimentation” at the 43rd International Exhibition of Inventions in 2015 and WIPO Medal for Inventors, “A World-leading Non-animal in Vivo Testing Method” presented by World Intellectual Property Organization at the 8th International Invention Fair in 2015. In addition, she has been awarded the Gold Medal at the 35th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products of Geneva in 2007, 2 gold awards from the Korean International Women’s invention Expositions in 2009 and 2010, Gold Award and also a Special Prize from the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, for the invention of “Rapid-identification Kit for Meat Ingredients in Processed Food” and a Bronze Award for the invention “Transgenic fish for high-throughput biomonitoring of Toxicants” in 2011. She is the recipient of the 2015 CityU Outstanding Research Award.