Awards, Grants, and Patents

  • Fellow, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (2019);
  • Corresponding Member, National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines (Elected 2019);
  • Global Chair in Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath (2016-2017); NYU Silver Professorship (2016 to present);
  • Khalifa International Date Palm Award (2015); Severino and Paz Koh Lectureship Award for Science (2014);
  • Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2011);
  • Ayala Foundation USA/Philippine Development Forum Award of Excellence for Science and Technology (2010);
  • Guggenheim Fellow (2006 - 2007); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Elected 2005);
  • NC State William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor (2005-2006);
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Award in the Molecular Studies of Evolution (1997-2002);
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Molecular Evolution (1993-1995)