2009 Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society
2009 Chemstations Lectureship Award, American
Society for Engineering Education
2009 Outstanding Presentation Award, Annual Armed
Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine Conference
2008 Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award, Purdue
University
2008 Distinguished Scientist Award, Houston
Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology
2007 Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical
Engineering Research,
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2007 Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecturer
Award, Biomedical
Engineering Society
2007 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in
Engineering, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas TAMEST
2007 Oral Abstract Scientific Presentation Award,
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons
2005 Marshall R. Urist Award for Excellence in
Tissue Regeneration Research, Orthopaedic Research Society
2003
Huygens Lecturer Award, Netherlands Organization for
Scientific
Research
2003 Innovation Award, Advanced Materials
Research Center, Singapore
2001 Clemson Award for Contributions to the
Literature, Society for Biomaterials
2000 Best Poster Award, Materials Research
Society Fall Meeting
2000 Phoenix Pharmazie-Wissenschaftspreis
(Pharmaceutical Science Award)
2000 Fellow, International Union of Societies for
Biomaterials Science and Engineering
2000 Hershel M. Rich Invention Award, Rice
University
1999 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and
Biological Engineering
1998 Young Investigator Research Achievement
Award, Controlled Release Society
1997 Hershel M. Rich Invention Award, Rice
University
1996 Outstanding Young Investigator Award,
Materials Research Society
1996 FIRST Award, National Institutes of Health
1995 Hershel
M. Rich Invention Award, Rice University
1994 Whitaker Young Investigator Award,
Biomedical Engineering Society
1994 Johnson
& Johnson Medical Outstanding Young Scientist Award, Houston
Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology
1991 Victor
K. LaMer Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, American Chemical Society
1988, 1985 Sigma
Xi Student Research Competition Award
1983 Technical
Chamber of Greece Award
