Awards & Honors header


Predoctoral Students title

Yan Ge
UVa Shyr-te Ju Research Award, 2008
Second Place, National Kidney Young Investigator Forum, Baltimore, MD, February 2008
First Place, National Kidney Young Investigator Forum, Dallas, TX, April 2008


Postdoctoral Fellows title

Amandeep Bajwa, Ph.D.
National Kidney Foundation Research Fellowship Award, July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2010


Faculty & Research Scientists title

Alaa Awad, M.D.
National Institutes of Health 1K99DK077444, July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2012

W. Kline Bolton, M.D.
National Institutes of Health 1R01DK076095, Feb 1,2008 - Jan 31, 2012

Michael Brown, Ph.D.
Invited Speaker:

  • Department of Molecular Immunology Mini Conference, Everything  CMV, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
  • Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO

Umesh Deshmukh, Ph.D.
Appointed Editorial Board, Clinical Immunology, April 2008
Grant from Sjogren's Foundation, 2008
Co-Chair, Block Symposium, 95th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, 2008

Shu Man Fu, M.D., Ph.D.
Elected, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008
Pfizer Visiting Professor of Rheumatology at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2008
Elected, Master of the American College of Rheumatology, 2007
Grant from Alliance for Lupus Research, Project #129664

Kambiz Kalantarinia, M.D.
National Institutes of Health K23 DK074616, July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2012

Li Li, Ph.D.
American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant, 2008 - 2012. 

Mark D. Okusa, M.D.
National Institutes of Health 2R01DK062324, Feb 1, 2008 - Jan 31, 2012
Genzyme-GRIP Award, September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2009


Administrative Staff 

Robert Young, Kristine Kwok, Katherine Grooms
UVa Department of Medicine Administrative Excellence Award