Faculty Honors and Awards

Recipient Honor or award

2024-2025

William F. DeGrado

Ronald Breslow Award for Biomimetic chemistry from ACS, to be presented in 2025

William F. DeGrado

Honorary degree from the U. of Valencia (Spain), to be presented in 2025

2023-2024
Jason Gestwicki Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, The Protein Society 2023
Daniel Minor Biophysical Society Fellow 2023
Charles Craik Speaker, Andrew Braisted Lecture award 2023
Charles Craik Speaker, UCSF Graduate Division Commencement 2023
Michael Evans Roger Tsien Award for excellence in Chemical Biology, World Molecular Imaging Society 2023
Michael Evans Sam Gambhir Trailblazer Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2024
Michelle Arkin Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society 2024
Michelle Arkin Gordon Hammes Lecturer 2024
Arun Wiita Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation 2024
Lei Wang NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture, NIH 2024

2021-2022
David Julius Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
Lei Wang Emil Thomas Kaiser Award, The Protein Society 2021
Natalia Jura Byers Award in Basic Science 2022

2020
Yifan Cheng Elected to the National Academy of Science
David Julius Breakthrough Prize in Life Science
James Fraser Byers Award in Basic Science
Michael Evans Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation
Michael Evans Elected to the Council of Distinguished Investigators by the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research

2018
Andrej Sali Elected to the National Academy of Science
Bo Huang Byers Award in Basic Science
Jason Gestwicki Fellow, the Cell Stress Society International (CSSI)
Aashish Manglik Pew Biomedical Scholar and 2024 Byers Award

2017
Danica Fujimori Byers Award in Basic Science
Charles S. Craik American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Brian Shoichet Delano Award for Computational Biosciences

2016
Joe DeRisi Elected to the National Academy of Science
Jim Wells National Academy of Inventors
Charles S. Craik Protein Society Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

2015
Zev Gartner Popular Science Brilliant 10
Tejal Desai National Academy of Medicine
Jim Wells American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Joe DeRisi American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Michael Evans DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program Idea Development Award

2014
James Fraser Searle Scholar
James Fraser Packard Fellow
James Fraser Pew Scholar
Shawn Douglas Pew Scholar
Joe DeRisi John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
Charles S. Craik National Academy of Inventors

2013
Zev Gartner NIH New Innovator Award
Bill DeGrado National Academy of Inventors

2012
Jason Gestwicki American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Xiaokun Shu NIH New Innovator Award

2011
Bo Huang Searle Scholar
Danica Fujimori Searle Scholar
Bo Huang NIH New Innovator Award
Danica Fujimori NSF CAREER Award

2010
Bo Huang Packard Fellow

2009
Jason Gestwicki NSF CAREER Award
Nevan Krogan Searle Scholar
Nevan Krogan Keck Fellow
Kevan Shokat Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

2008
Tanja Kortemme NSF CAREER Award

2007
David Agard Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

2006
Jason Gestwicki McKnight Foundation Brain Disorders Award

2004

Joe DeRisi

MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellow

David Julius

Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

2003
Robert Stroud Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

2002
Daniel Minor Searle Scholar

1999
Bill DeGrado Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Jim Wells Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

1997
Kevan Shokat Searle Scholar