Across his career, Abdul has received prestigious awards from the AAPS (Young Investigator Award in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology), Glaxo Smith Kline (Innovative Science Award), AstraZeneca (Pharmaceutical Science Award) and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS Science Award). Abdul was appointed the European Editor of the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. In 2019 and 2020, Abdul was listed amongst the World's Most Highly Influential Researchers by the Web of Science.