Faculty Awards
2024
Tina Iverson — 2024 Innovation Catalyst Fund Award
Jeffrey Spraggins — 2024 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Neil Osheroff — Lillian B. Nanney Award, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center
David Cortez — 2024 The Hans Neurath Award, The Protein Society
Scott Hiebert — The Richard Armstrong Mentoring Award, Vanderbilt Biochemistry
Jennifer Pietenpol — 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology “Science of Oncology” Award
Jonathan D. Brown — Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation
2023
David Cortez — The Richard Armstrong Mentoring Award, Vanderbilt Biochemistry
Kimryn Rathmell — Director, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Kimryn Rathmell — Paragon Award for Research Excellence from the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF)
Neil Osheroff — 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
Martin Egli — Member, European Academy of Sciences and Art
Jonathan D. Brown — Riven Family Directorship in Cardiovascular Medicine
Steven Damo — PAIR-UP Award
Jashim Uddin — Phi Beta Psi Trust Award
Emily Hodges — Basic Sciences Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Richard Caprioli — Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization Inventors’ Hall of Fame
Master Innovator Award
Kimryn Rathmell — American Society of Clinical Oncology Fellow
Madhvi Venkatesh — Member, Academy for Excellence in Education
Manuel Ascano — 2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Lauren Jackson — 2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Neil Osheroff — Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) Mentoring, Innovation, and
Leadership in Educational Scholarship (MILES) Award.
Larry Marnett — Vanderbilt Graduate School Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award
Scott Hiebert — VUMC School of Medicine Ernest W. Goodpasture Award
Jeff Spraggins — VUMC School of Medicine Richard M. Caprioli Award
2022
Stephen Fesik — Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization Inventors’ Hall of Fame
Master Innovator Award
Craig Lindsley — Center for Technology Transfer & Commercialization Inventors’ Hall of Fame
Master Innovator Award
Steven Damo — Chan Zuckerberg Science Diversity Leadership
Kimryn Rathmell — Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Walter Chazin — Appointed to the NIEHS Board of Scientific Counselors
Emily Hodges — Stanley Cohen Innovation Fund
Breann Brown — Best Shadow Mentor, Basic Sciences Juneteenth Mini-Symposium
Marija Zanic — Vanderbilt Chancellor Faculty Fellow
William Wan — Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
Neil Osheroff — Association of Medical Educators in Europe Fellow
Jennifer Pietenpol — American Association for Cancer Research Academy Fellow
Kevin Schey — Gold Fellow of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Brandt Eichman — AAAS Fellow
2021
Brandt Eichman — Biochemical Society International Award
Breann Brown — NIH Director’s Innovator Award
Will Wan — NIH Director’s Innovator Award
Houra Merrikh — Cohen Innovation Fund Award
Manuel Ascano — Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for for ground-breaking cancer research
Neil Osheroff — Elected to serve on the AAMC-CFAS board (Council of Faculty and Academic Societies)
Kevin Schey — Elected to serve on Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate
Craig Lindsley — ACS Hall of Fame, Medicinal Chemistry Division
Chuck Sanders — Armstrong Mentoring Award
Houra Merrikh — Finalist, 2021 Blavatnik Awards
Borden Lacy — Faculty Mentor of the Year
Manuel Ascano, Jr. — Richard M. Caprioli Award
Peter Guengerich — Named to inaugural class of ASBMB Fellows
2020
Kimryn Rathmell — Named AAAS Fellow
Chuck Sanders — President-Elect The Protein Society
Houra Merikh — Finalist, Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists & Inducted Member, NY Academy of Sciences Award Description
Walter Chazin — Armstrong Mentoring Award Award Description Photos Zoom Video Recording
Breann Brown — Named Fellow, Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology
James Dewar — Brown Foundation Healthy Aging Research Initiative for Research and Professional Development
Adrian Olivares — Brown Foundation Healthy Aging Research Initiative for Research and Professional Development
Neil Osheroff — Elected President, International Association of Medical Science Educators
2019
Peter Guengerich — Richard Armstrong Mentoring Award Photos
Peter Guengerich — Named Fellow, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (FASPET)
Richard Caprioli — ABRF Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies
Craig Lindsley — Named to National Academy of Inventors
Craig Lindsley — Inaugural winner of ASPET Award Honoring Drug Discovery Research
Craig Lindsley — American Chemical Society Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry
Craig Lindsley — Ancora Innovation Research Award
Neil Osheroff — AAAS Fellowship
Neil Osheroff — International Association of Medical Science Educators, Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship
Cathleen Pettepher — Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
Vito Quaranta — Faculty Award, IBM
Kimryn Rathmell — Louisa Nelson Award for Women of Vision, Distinction, and Inspiration in Nashville
Kimryn Rathmell — Eugene P. Schoenfeld Award for Career Contributions in Kidney Cancer
Kevin Schey — AAA Fellowship
2018
Ray Blind — Journal of Lipid Research Junior Investigator Award
David Cortez — Elected AAAS Fellow
D. Borden Lacy (Secondary Faculty) — Elected AAAS Fellow
Neil Osheroff — Elected AAAS Fellow
Kevin Schey — Elected AAAS Fellow
2017
Ray Blind — Journal of Biological Chemistry Herb Tabor Young Investigator Award
Ray Blind — Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research V-Scholar Award
Ray Blind — Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Ambassadors Discovery Award
Ray Blind — American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award
Billy Hudson — The Karl Brändén Award
Tina Iverson — Named to Interdisciplinary University Research Council
Melanie Ohi — 2017 Chancellor’s Faculty Fellowship
Neil Osheroff — 2017 Association of Biochemistry Educators Distinguished Service Award
W. Kimryn Rathmell — Cornelius Abernathy Chair, Vanderbilt
W. Kimryn Rathmell — Elected to the American Society of Clinical Oncology Education Committee
Chuck Sanders — Named to VU Science Advisory Board
Kevin Schey — Named Fellow of ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Opthamology)
2016
Manuel Ascano, Jr. — VICC Ambassador Discovery Grant
Richard Caprioli — Honorary Membership, Italian Chemical Society
Walter Chazin — Elected Fellow of the Biophysical Society
Stanley Cohen — Induction, Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame
Stephen Fesik — 2016 VUMC Research Award: Grant W. Liddle Research Award
Scott Hiebert — Presidential Appointee to National Cancer Advisory Board (6 year term)
Billy Hudson — 2016 Earl Sutherland Prize
Neil Osheroff — 2016 VUMC Enterprise Teaching Award: Denis O’Day Award for “team-implemented curricular reform” for the foundations of medical knowledge phase of SOM curriculum
Jennifer Pietenpol — 2016 TJ Martell Award: Medical Research Advancement Award
Jennifer Pietenpol — 2016 VUMC Research Award: Charles R. Park Research Award
Jennifer Pietenpol — NCI Blue Ribbon Panel, Presidential appointment to science advisory panel
Charles Sanders — 2016 VUMC Research Award: Stanley Cohen Research Award
Kevin Schey — Awarded TIPs funding in the ViA category
2015
Richard Breyer — Elected AAAS Fellow
Richard Caprioli — VUMC Academic Enterprise Faculty Awards, 2015 Leadership of Multi-Investigational Team
Stephen Fesik — Lustgarten Foundation Grant, Research Investigator Award for Discovery of small molecules that target the Ras/SOS complex for the treatment of pancreatic cancer
Emily Hodges — National Cancer Institute Career Transition Award
Borden Lacy — Chancellor Faculty Fellows Program
Borden Lacy — VUMC Academic Enterprise Faculty Awards, 2015 Ernest W. Goodpasture Research Award
2014
Richard Armstrong — Selected for the 2014 American Chemical Society Late Career Scholars Award sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund
Richard Armstrong — American Chemical Society’s 2014 Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholars Award sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund
Richard Breyer (Secondary Faculty) — Elected AAAS Fellow
Richard Caprioli — Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry, American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Scott Hiebert — T.J. Martell Research Award
Scott Hiebert — Jacek Hawinger Award for Teaching Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows in the Classroom, Lecture, or Small Group Setting
Rafael Radi — National Academies of Sciences Foreign Associate Election
2013
Martin Egli — Delivers the 2013 Alexander Rich Lecture in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F. Peter Guengerich — Shares honors with Rebecca Cook in Cancer Biology, for being named Mentors of the Year of Postdocs at Vanderbilt by the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association
F. Peter Guengerich — Awarded the Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) Toxicology Merit Award
Borden Lacy — American Crystallographic Association, Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award
Daniel Liebler — Selected American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow
Nicholas Reiter — National Scientific Development Award, American Heart Association
Charles R. Sanders — Shares with J. Doudna the Protein Society’s Hans Neurath Award, recognizing those who have made a contribution of exceptional merit to basic science protein research
Samuel Santoro (Secondary Faculty) — Elected AAAS Fellow
Kevin Schey — National Foundation for Eye Research Cataract Research Award
2012
Richard Armstrong — Selected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Richard Caprioli — Elected an AAAS Fellow
Stephen W. Fesik — AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research
Stephen W. Fesik — AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research
Larry Marnett — George & Christine Sosnovsky Award for Cancer Research sponsored by the George & Christine Sosnovsky Endowment Fund
Jennifer Pietenpol — Elected an AAAS Fellow
Charles Sanders — Anatrace Membrane Protein Society Award, Biophysical Society, for innovative research in the field of membrane proteins structure using NMR spectroscopy
Michael R. Waterman — John H. Exton Award for Research Leading to Innovative Biological Concepts
Michael R. Waterman — AOCS Schroepfer Medal recognizing major advances in the steroid or sterol field
2011
Brandt Eichman — Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research
Richard Armstrong — Repligen Award in Chemistry of Biological Processes
Richard Armstrong — Appointed Adjunct Professor in Biochemical Toxicology at Karolinska Institute, The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) for a period of six years
Bruce Carter — Elected Fellow of the AAAS, Neurobiology
Stephen Fesik — Elected Fellow of the AAAS
Stephen Fesik — 14th Annual Andrew H. Weinberg Memorial Lecture, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Tadashi Inagami — Fellow of the Association by the AAAS Council for his role in being the first to purify and identify renin, and in cloning atrial natriuretic peptide (ANF) and angiotension II type 1 and 2 receptors and their variants, research that helped lead to the development of renin inhibitors to treat hypertension
F. Peter Guengerich — American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Toxicology’s Founders’ Award
Charles R. Sanders — 2011 Sidney P. Colowick Research Award for research that serves as a platform for discovery in diverse areas
Michael R.Waterman — 2011 F. Peter Guengerich Award for Excellence in Teaching
2010
Richard Caprioli — HUPO (Human Proteome Organization) Distinguished Achievement Award In Proteomic Science For 2010
Richard Caprioli — Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry at the Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition in Somerset NJ
Stephen Fesik — SBS Technology Innovation Award, Society for Biomolecular Sciences
Fred Guengerich — R.T. Williams Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award sponsored by Charles Crespi and Family, selected by the ISSX Awards Committee
Charles Sanders — Chancellor’s Award for Research
Michael Stone (Secondary Faculty) — Elected AAAS Fellow
2009
Billy Hudson (Secondary Faculty) — Elected AAAS Fellow
Brandt Eichman — Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award