Faculty Awards

Faculty Awards (For Academic Year 2022-2023)

Rodrigo Braga, PhD; Neurology

Recipient of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Development Award from the Mesulam Center

Lisa Beutler, MD, PhD; Medicine (Endocrinology)

Recipient of the 2022 American Diabetes Association Pathway to Stop Diabetes Award

Navdeep Chandel, PhD; Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Biochemistry and Molecular
Genetics

Recipient of the 2023 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences by the Foundation for the National Institutes of
Health (FNIH).

Michael Ellis, PT, DPT, MPT; Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences and Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation

Promoted to Professor in Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences on the
Clinician Educator track with domains in research and education effective 9/1/23

Colin Franz, MD, PhD; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Recipient of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine's 2023
Scientific Impact Award

Jaime Garcia-Añoveros, PhD; Neuroscience, Neurology and Anesthesiology

Recipient of the Bellucci Prize
Recipient of the Pioneer Award in Auditory Neuroscience

David Gate, PhD; Neurology

Recipient of Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award (Neuroscientist), American
Neurological Association
Recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Bright Focus
Foundation

Dimitri Krainc, MD; Neurology

Elected President of American Neurological Association

Ann Kennedy, PhD; Neuroscience

Recipient of the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD; Neurobiology

Irving M Klotz Professor, 2023
Associate Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022

Hojoon Lee, PhD; Neurobiology

Recipient of the Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant Award
Recipient of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium Catalyst Award

Yvonne Lee, MD, MMSc; Medicine (Rheumatology) & Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)

Recipient of the NIH STAR Supplements to Advance Research Award
Recipient of the NIH Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research

Talia Lerner, PhD; Neuroscience

Recipient of the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award, Society for Neuroscience
Recipient of the Gordon & Rose McAlpine Foundation Award for Neuroscience Research

Elizabeth Norton, PhD; Communication Sciences and Disorders

Recipient of the Charles McCormick Deering Award for Teaching Excellence

Murali Prakriya, PhD; Pharmacology

Elected Fellow of AAAS
Recipient of an 8-year NINDS R35 Research Program Award

Indira Raman, PhD; Neurobiology

Recipient of the Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship from NINDS (2023)
Recipient of the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize from the Physiological Society

Richard Silverman, PhD; Chemistry

Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences

Note: Awards and promotions are self-reported

Faculty Awards (For Academic Year 2021-2022)

Tom Bozza, PhD; Neurobiology

Named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence (University Level Teaching Award from Provost Office)
Promoted to Full Professor of Neurobiology (Strarting Sept 2022)

Michael Ellis, PT, DPT, MPT; Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences

Recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Neurorehabilitation Clinician Scientist (ONCS) Award from the American Society of Neurorehabilitation

Marco Gallio, PhD; Neurobiology

Finalist for NIH Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship
Recipient of the E. LeRoy Hall Distinguished Teaching Award, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Jaime García-Añoveros, PhD; Neuroscience, Neurology, and Anesthesiology

Nominated by the Falling Walls Foundation for the Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in Life Sciences

David Gate, PhD; Neurology

Recipient of the 10x Genomics Early Career Investigator Award

Claudia Haase, PhD; Human Department and Social Policy and Psychology

Recipient of the Fletcher Prize for Excellence in Research Mentorship (Northwestern University)

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD; Neurobiology

Recipient of the One Mind Nick LeDeit Rising Star Award (2021)
Recipient of the Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Award (2022)

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD; Neurology

Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Yongchao Ma, PhD; Pediatrics & Neurology

Named Children's Research Fund Endowed Professor in Neurobiology

Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD; Medicine

Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Elizabeth Norton, PhD; Communication Sciences and Disorders

Promoted to Associate Professor

Lucas Pinto, MD, PhD; Neuroscience

Recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship
Named Allen Institute Next Generation Leader
Recipient of the Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition Fellowship

Emily Rogalski, PhD; Psychiatry

Named Ann Adelmann Perkins and John S. Perkins Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Prevention

Richard Silverman, PhD; Chemistry

Recipient of the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry

Marc Slutzky, MD, PhD; Neurology

Promoted to Professor

Sara Solla, PhD; Neuroscience

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fred Turek, PhD; Neurobiology & Neurology

Recipient of the 2022 SRBR Directors’ Award for Research
Recipient of the 2022 SRBR Directors’ Award for Service

Yvette Wong, PhD; Neurology

Recipient of the NIH DP2 New Innovator Award

Catherine Woolley, PhD; Neurobiology

Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD; Neurology

Became the President of the World Sleep Society

Note: Awards and promotions are self-reported

Faculty Awards (For Academic Year 2020-2021)

Daniel Brat, MD, PhD; Pathology

2020 Elected, Association of American Physicians (AAP)
2020 Elected, Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars

Savio Chan, PhD; Physiology

Promoted to Associate Professor

Shi-Yuan Cheng, PhD; Neurology

Elected as a fellow a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in November 2020

Hongxin Dong, PhD; Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neurology

Promoted to Professor

Marco Gallio, PhD; Neurobiology

2021 NIH Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship, finalist

Thorsten Kahnt, PhD; Neurology

Promoted to Associate Professor
Selected to join editorial board or the Journal of Neuroscience as Reviewing Editor

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD; Neurobiology

Promoted to Associate Professor
Named Soretta and Henry Shapiro Research Professor of Molecular Biology, Endowed Chair
2021 Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Award - Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation
2021 One Mind Robina Riccitiello Rising Star Depression Research Award - One Mind

Nina Kraus, PhD; Communication Sciences and Disorders

Certificate of Appreciation American Music Therapy Association for "Rhythmic Medicine." "Champion for Music Therapy Award," American Music Therapy Assoc, Great Lakes Region. "Music Has Power" Award, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function

Mitra Lavasani, PhD; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Innovative Catalyst Grant Award, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
First Place, The Sarah Baskin Outstanding Research Award - Junior Physicians and Scientists
Sarah Baskin Outstanding Research Award - Manuscript Competition (Junior Physicians and Scientists category)

Hojoon Lee, PhD; Neurobiology

Whitehall Foundation Grant

Marco Martina, PhD; Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Promoted to Professor

Joe Mazzulli, PhD; Neurology

Promoted to Associate Professor

Daniella Menichella, MD, PhD; Neurology and Pharmacology

Promoted to Associate Professor

Stephen Miller, PhD; Microbiology-Immunology

2021 Technology, Innovation and Development Award from the Society For Biomaterials

Andrew Miri, PhD; Neurobiology

Sloan Research Fellowship
Catalyst Award, Chicago Biomedical Consortium
2021 Baker Faculty Research Program, Northwestern University
2020 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Vijay Mittal, PhD; Psychology

Promoted to Professor

Ken Paller, PhD; Psychology

Named the James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences
McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience "Does Superior Sleep Physiology Contribute to Superior Memory Function? Implications for Counteracting Forgetting"

Indira Raman, PhD; Neurobiology

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
NINDS R35 Research Program Award

John Rogers, PhD; Materials Science and Engineering

Guggenheim Fellowship (2021)

Tiffany Schmidt PhD; Neurobiology

Promoted to Associate Professor
Young Investigator Award, Society for Research in Biological Rhythms
Pisart Award for Outstanding Achievements in Vision Science, Lighthouse Guild
Ver Steeg Faculty Award

Gregory Schwartz, PhD; Ophthalmology

Named the Derrick T. Vail Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Gordon Shepherd, MD, PhD; Neuroscience

Promoted to Professor

Richard Silverman, PhD; Chemistry

Inventor of LyricaTM (pregabalin), marketed worldwide by Pfizer for the treatment of epilepsy, neuropathic pain, Fibromyalgia, and (in Europe) for generalized anxiety disorder 2005-present Inventor of CPP-115, successful completion of Phase 1 clinical trial; currently used as compassionate use drug for child with infantile spasms 2016-2019 Inventor of OV329, licensed to Ovid Therapeutic 2016-present

Marc Slutzky, MD, PhD; Neurology, Neuroscience, PM&R, and Biomedical Engineering

Promoted to Professor

Matthew Tate, MD, PhD; Neurological Surgery

Promoted to Associate Professor

Catherine Woolley, PhD; Neurobiology

Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Phyllis Zee, MD, PhD; Neurology

Distinguished Scientist Award, Sleep Research Society
National Sleep Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award

Note: The faculty awards and promotions are self-reported and therefore are not inclusive of all awards received by NUIN faculty during Academic Year 2020-2021