Faculty Awards and Accolades
Learn about the numerous awards and honors that Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department faculty have received along with key lectureships and leadership positions. Our faculty also regularly receive Excellence in Teaching awards—visit the School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching page to see a complete list.
Awards and Honors
2021
Ashani Weeraratna was named one of Cancer Health Magazine’s 2021 Cancer Health 25 awardees
Vito Rebecca received the Ho-Ching Yang Memorial Fellowship, one of three School of Public Health Faculty Innovation Fund Awards, which supports cancer research with particular importance to improving the health of populations
Jiou Wang and his team were selected as a Cozzarelli Prize finalist by PNAS
Anthony Leung was named a 2021 President’s Frontier Award Finalist
2020
Jennifer Kavran, Anthony Leung, and Scott Bailey received 2020 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
Jiou Wang was elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation
Marina Pryzhkova, Assistant Scientist in the Jordan Lab, received the 2020 KY Cha Award in Stem Cell Technology from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
2019
Anthony Leung was awarded the 2019 Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation in recognition for his work recently published in Molecular Cell: “ELTA: Enzymatic labeling of terminal ADP-Ribose.
Fengyi Wan was awarded the Samuel Jordan Graham award recognizing excellence in basic science research collaboration between faculty members in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine, for his work with Cynthia Sears in the School of Medicine
2018
Valeria Culotta received the Ivano Bertini Achievement Award for Bioinorganic Chemistry of Copper at the International Meeting on Copper in Health and Disease, in Sorrento, Italy
Valeria Culotta received an inaugural Dean’s award for Distinction in Faculty Mentoring
2017
Philip Jordan, Fengyi Wan, and Anthony Leung received a 2017 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
Fengyi Wan was awarded the 2017 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
Janice Evans received the 2017 Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Andrology for exemplary service to the Society
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa won the Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation
Anthony Leung received the medical research award from the W. W. Smith Charitable Trust
2016
Anthony Leung named finalist for the American Society of Cell Biology–Gibco Emerging Leader Prize
Michael Matunis was elected as a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science
Scott Bailey, together with Jie Xiao from the School of Medicine, received a 2016 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
Michael Matunis and Jiou Wang, together with Susan Michaelis from the School of Medicine, received a 2016 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
Jiou Wang was awarded the 2016 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
Anthony Leung received a Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society
Janice Evans received 2016 Faculty Excellence in Service-Learning Award
Jennifer Kavran was awarded Ho-Ching Yang Memorial Faculty Fellowship in Cancer Prevention
Scott Bailey received Johns Hopkins President's Frontier Award
2015
Michael Matunis was elected as a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science
Scott Bailey was awarded the 2015 Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation
Scott Bailey and Anthony Leung were awarded the Inaugural Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award
Philip Jordan was a co-awardee with Alan Meeker on the Inaugural Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
2014
Scott Bailey was honored as a finalist for the Inaugural Johns Hopkins President's Frontier Award
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa was elected as a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science
Pierre Coulombe and Valeria Culotta were elected to the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society
Valeria Culotta received the David Danks Award for Copper in metabolism and disease
Philip Jordan received Ho-Ching Yang Memorial Award for Cancer Prevention
Jiou Wang was awarded the 2014 Shikani/El-Hibri Prize for Discovery and Innovation
2013
Anthony Leung was a finalist of the Agilent Early Career Professor Award
Randy Bryant received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health for the Biochemistry I and II courses
Janice Evans was elected to the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health
Anthony Leung received a Faculty Innovation Award from the School of Public Health
2012
Terry Brown received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Andrology
Fengyi Wan received a Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society
Jiou Wang received an Idea Award from the U.S. Department of Defense amyotrophic lateral sclerosis program
2011
Val Culotta and Barry Zirkin were elected as Fellows of the American Society for the Advancement of Science
Anthony Leung received an Idea Award from the U.S. Department of Defense breast cancer research program
Fengyi Wan received a Ho-Ching Yang Memorial Award for Cancer Prevention
Barry Zirkin received the Distinguished Andrologist Award from the American Society for Andrology
Randy Bryant received the Golden Apple Teaching Award from students enrolled in the Johns Hopkins undergraduate Public Health Studies program
2010
Scott Bailey received a Ho-Ching Yang Memorial Award for Cancer Prevention
Jiou Wang received a Faculty Innovation Award from the Bloomberg School
2009
Jurgen Bosch received a Faculty Innovation Award from the Bloomberg School
Pierre Coulombe was elected as a Fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science
Key Lectureships and Leaderships
2021
Jennifer Kavran chaired a session of the Frontiers in Chemical Biology Interface Symposium (virtual) and co-organized the Structural Biology Interest Group for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Annual Meeting (virtual)
2020
Vito Rebecca was elected to the Society for Melanoma Research's Steering Committee
Ashani Weeraratna began her tenure as the Society for Melanoma Research President, after serving as President Elect for 2019-2020
Philip Jordan chaired the KY Cha Symposium at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Scientific Congress (virtual)
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa chaired the “Physiology and aging: new understanding of organs that affect the physiology of aging” session at the 2020 Gerontology Society of America Meeting (virtual)
Anthony Leung gave a keynote presentation at the RNA Society’s Noncoding RNA and Therapeutics Discovery Interest Group Meeting (online symposium)
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa was elected as one of two new members of the Electorate Nominating Committee for the AAAS Biological Section
Val Culotta was named the Associate Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs for Johns Hopkins University
2018
Philip Jordan gave the keynote presentation at the 2018 Gordon Research Seminar on Meiosis
2017
Janice Evans served as Vice President of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) in 2017-2018, and will be President of the SSR for 2018-2019
2016
Janice Evans was elected to be President of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) in 2018-2019 after serving as vice president-elect for 2016-2017
2014
Pierre Coulombe was a keynote speaker at 2014 Gordon Research Seminar on Intermediate Filaments
Janice Evans was a plenary speaker at the conference on Mechanotransduction in Reproductive Tract
Janice Evans participated in the 2014-2015 SOURCE (Student Outreach Resource Center) Faculty Fellows Program
Janice Evans participated in the 2014-2015 Johns Hopkins Medicine Leadership Program for Women Faculty
2013
Pierre Coulombe gave the Inaugural Mary Schwartz Lecture in Skin Biology, University of Dundee, UK
Pierre Coulombe gave the Irwin M. Freedberg Memorial Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Epithelial Differentiation
Anthony Leung was a keynote speaker at Genomics Research 2013
2011
Janice Evans organized and chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Fertilization and Activation of Development