Honors & Awards

Year

Honor/Award
2022Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field category; Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science)
2022Distinguished speaker, 65th Japanese Society of Periodontology General Meeting (Sendai, Japan)
2021Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field category; Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science)
2021Keynote Speaker, NIH workshop on Metabolic Regulation of Inflammation and its Resolution in Disease Development
2021NIH MERIT award (renewed)
2020 Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field category; Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science)
2018Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-Field category; Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science)
2018Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine - Dean’s Distinguished Professorship lecture
2017Plenary Speaker, 12th European Oral Microbiology Workshop. Stockholm, Sweden
2016NIH MERIT award
2016Keynote Lecturer, Oral Microbiology & Immunology Research Group - British Society for Oral & Dental Research, Wales, UK
2014AADR/IADR William J. Gies Award in the Biological Research Category
2012IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Oral Biology
2010Distinguished University Scholar, University of Louisville
2008Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
2006University Scholar Award, University of Louisville
2005LSU School of Dentistry, Research Excellence Award
2004LSU School of Dentistry, Research Excellence Award
2001 IADR Travel Award for the 79th IADR general session (Chiba, Japan)
1995IADR/Unilever Travel Award for the 73rd IADR General Session (Singapore)
1995AADR Edward H. Hatton Award