Honors and Awards
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Wisconsin Superior
- Bruce Stewart Award, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
- Twenty Influential Women Leaders in the USA, Newsweek, Inc
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, University of California at San Francisco
- New Faculty Award, Searle Scholar
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Damon Runyon/Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Teaching Excellence, DuPont Teaching Fellow
- 10, Sandler Award in Basic Science
- 11, Innovations in Basic Science Award(UCSF)
- 12, Member of the NIH Cellular, Molecular, & Integrative Reproduction (CMIR)
- 13, Chair of the German American Frontiers of Science Program
- 14, American Stem Cell Research Foundation Award
- 16, UCSF:Coro Center for Leadership Training