Honors and Awards
Trainee Awards
Roger W. Sands, BS
• Senior Honors Thesis in Molecular Biology, Trewartha-Mensink
• Undergraduate Research Award, 2000-2001
Obrad Kokanovic, BS
Herman Shapiro Summer Research Grant Award, 2002
Jameison Cohn, BA
Summer Research Internship, 2002
Brenda Kahan, PhD
Best Abstract and Travel Award, Keystone Symposium, 2002
Nathan Treff, PhD
NIH Transplant Training Grant Award, 2004-2005
Robert Vincent, PhD
Vilas Travel Award, 2005
Zachary Kastenberg, BS
Per Bernsten Fellowship Award, Summer Research, 2005
Jesse Bauwens, Undergraduate Student, 2006-2008
Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award
Anna Ibele, MD
NIH Transplant Training Grant Award, 2006-2007
Dawn Davis, MD
Mentor for K08 award, 2008-present
Gopika Nair, Graduate Student, Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology Program
James Southard Basic Science Award, 2011; Best Abstract Award ERP Symposium, 2011
Ivie Okundaye, BS
UW Integrated Biological Sciences Research Program and NIH Step up program Award, 2010
Silke Niederhaus, MD
American Transplant Congress and International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association Travel Awards, 2011
Philip Wai, MD
IPITA travel award, 2011
Faculty Awards
Jon S. Odorico, MD
• National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health, 1990-92
• Jonathan E. Rhoads Research Award, Harrison Department of Surgical Research, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, 1992-93
• Finalist, Sandoz Fellowship Award, 1994
• Best Abstract Award, OrthoBiotech Transplant Fellows Workshop, 1994
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Fujisawa Faculty Development Award, 1996
• Young Investigator Travel Award, Stem Cells and Pancreatic Development Workshop, National Institutes of Health, 2000
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Development Award, 2000
• Surgical Biology Club II, 2004-present
• “Top Doctor,” Madison Magazine, 2004
• Featured Clinical Scientist, American Society of Transplantation Newsletter, 2005
• ASTS-Wyeth Midlevel Faculty Award, 2006
• Mary Jane Kugel Award, JDRF, 2006
• Best Doctors in America, 2011
• Vilas Award, 2011