• 2024: Recipient, NIH MERIT Award. • 2023: Virginia Tech Life Time Achievement Award for Innovation. • 2022: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. • 2018: The Inaugural Lorraine J. Hoffman Graduate Alumni Award, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. • 2017: State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award. • 2016: Elected member of the
National Academy of Sciences. • 2013: University Distinguished Professor title, a pre-eminent and life-time title bestowed by the university Board of Visitors. • 2012: Elected Fellow of the
American Academy of Microbiology. • 2008: Recipient, Honorary Diplomat, American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. • 2008: Recipient, 2008 Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Research Excellence. • 2001 and 2007: Recipient, Pfizer Award for Research Excellence. • 1997: Recipient, NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence. • 1996: Recipient, Iowa State University’s Zaffarano Prize for Graduate Student Research Excellence. == Selected publications==