Honors & Awards

  • Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) – 2020
  • Distinguished Scientist Award, National Jewish Health – 2019
  • Sir Michael Stoker Award from the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research – 2019
  • WARF Innovation Award finalist – 2018
  • Fellow of American Academy for the Advancement of Science – 2016
  • Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Named Professorship – Roland Rueckert – 2015
  • International Data Corp. High Performance Computing Innovation Excellence Award – 2014
  • American Society for Virology, namesake Investigator Awards – 2012 – present
  • UW-Madison Biological Sciences Hilldale Award – 2010
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology – 2009
  • Elected President American Society for Virology – 2007
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Distinguished Scientist Award – 2006
  • Awarded American Society for Virology Lifetime Membership – 2001
  • Chair, Institute for Molecular Virology, UW-Madison – 1997-2013
  • WARF Faculty Mid-Career Award, UW-Madison – 1997
  • Vilas Associate Award, UW-Madison – 1996
  • H. I. Romnes Faculty Research Award, UW-Madison – 1991
  • Pound Research Award, UW-Madison – 1990
  • Waksman Institute of Rutgers University, Distinguished Scientist Award – 1989
  • Commendation from Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center for cooperative work in the control and eradication programs in South America – 1988
  • Alberta Heritage Foundation Visiting Lecturer Award, Calgary, Canada – 1987
  • Amersham Corporation Commendation for Continuing Education Program – 1981