Awards and Fellowships: National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow (2024), National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar (2024), Controlled Release Society (CRS) College of Fellows (2023), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows (2022), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study (adviser-student pair) (2021), Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator (2019), Young Innovator Award in Nanobiotechnology (2018), American Cancer Society (ACS) Research Scholar (2017), Friends of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Award in Cancer Research (2014), Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar Award (2012), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010), National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship at The University of Tokyo (Advisor: Professor Kazunori Kataoka) (2006), The Joseph A. Solomon Memorial Fellowship in Chemistry (CMU) (2005), Chemistry Department Research Honors (Lehigh) (2003)