National and International Awards

Individual Awards and Honors

Lobna Elsadek, NIGMS F31 Award for Discovery and Mechanistic Characterization of New Cytotoxic Agents from Marine Cyanobacteria, 2021 (Mentor: Hendrik Luesch)

Guangde Jiang, New Frontiers Scholar Award of New Frontiers in Natural Products Discovery Corteva Agriscience, 2019 (Mentor: Yousong Ding)

David Brumley, Selected for oral presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar on Marine Natural Products, Ventura, CA, February 22–23, 2020. “Discovery, Total Synthesis and Bioactivity of Halogenated Depsipeptides”, (Mentor: Hendrik Luesch) 

Hebaalla Agha, “2019 AAPS Best Abstract Award”, (Mentor: Christopher McCurdy) 

Poster presented at 2019 AAPS PharmSci 360 Annual meeting; San Antonio, TX, Nov 3-7. 2019. “Synthesis, Molecular Docking, and In Vitro Metabolic Stability Studies of CM304 Analogs as σ Receptor Ligands: Evaluation of Exocyclic Amine Moieties in Benzothiazolone‐Based Derivatives”

Hebaalla Agha, “2018 AAPS Best Abstract Award”, (Mentor: Christopher McCurdy) 

Awarded by the AAPS PharmSci 360 Annual meeting; Washington DC, Nov. 2018. Abstract Title “Synthesis of VBJ192 Analogs as Dual Opioid/NPFF ligands

Yasmeen Abouelhassan, Emerging STEM Scholar Award, Association for Academic Women (AAW), 2018, (Mentor: Robert Huigens III)

Fatma Al-Awadhi, Kilmer Prize Winner 2017
Awarded by the American Pharmacists Association and the American Society of Pharmacognosy, (Mentor: Hendrik Luesch) 

Weijing Cai, Selected for oral presentation at 2015 American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) Annual Meeting, (Mentor: Hendrik Luesch) 

Michelle Bousquet, 2015 A*STAR Research Attachment Programme (ARAP) Scholarship, (Mentor: Hendrik Luesch) 
Awarded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) to study at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in Singapore