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Honors and Accolades

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