Awards and Honors
| 2013 | Pfizer ASPIRE Award |
| 2011 | American Diabetes Association, Scientific Sessions – Young Investigator Travel Grant Award |
| 2010 | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Early Career Investigator Travel Award |
| 2009 | Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Meeting – National Institutes of Health (NIH) and JDRF Travel Awards |
| 2008 | Midwinter Conference of Immunologists – JDRF Travel Award |
| 2007 | FOCIS Meeting – NIH Travel Award |
| 2005 | Graduate Fellowship for Outstanding Research Award, College of Medicine, University of Florida |
| 2001 | Elected to the Golden Key Society |