Honors and Awards
- Fulbright Senior Specialist, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Board Member, Harvard Board of Overseer’s
- Council Member, Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- Plenary Lecturer, 400th Pontifical Academy, The Vatican
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Nijmegen, Holland
- Rolf-Sammet-Fonds Visiting Professorship, University of Frankfurt
- President, International Society of Differentiation
- Council Member, American Society for Cell Biology
- Director's Lectureship, NIH
- Board Member, American Society for Gene Therapy
- Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Endowed Professorship, Stanford University
- Merit Award, National Institute of Health
- Council Member, National Institute on Aging, NIH
- Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Arts and Sciences
- FASEB Excellence in Science Award, FASEB
- Yvette Mayent-Rothschild Visiting Professor, Instituts Curie and Pasteur, Paris
- Nobel Forum Lectureship, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- President, American Society for Developmental Biology
- Senior Career Recognition Award, Women in Cell Biology, ASCB
- Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science