HONORS and AWARDS

2006 Organizer, Pharmacology Seminars Series: Molecular & Cellular Neurobiology as the foundation for drug development, UCSD, January 10-March 21 Invited and hosted the following speakers: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Genentech; Mark Tuszynski, UCSD; Greg Lemke, Salk; Ben Cravatt, Scripps; Tony Yaksh, UCSD; George Koob, Scripps; Mark Ellisman, UCSD; Moses V. Chao, NYU; Fred Gage, Salk

2006- Expert Referee Panel, Alzheimer’s Research Trust, UK

2006 Chair, Neurobiology Session, International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis (ISFP) 18th International Meeting, San Diego, CA

2006 Young Investigator Award, International Fibrinogen Society

2005 Co-Organizer and Keynote Lecturer San Diego Chapter National Multiple Sclerosis Society Fundraising Symposium organized at Leichtag, UCSD followed by a lab tour.

2005- Director, Pharmacology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program

2006 Organizing Committee Member, International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis (ISFP) 18th International Meeting, San Diego, CA

2004 Co-chair, Neurobiology Session, International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis (ISFP) 17th International Meeting, Melbourne, Australia.

2003 Organizer of the Scientific Symposium “Interactions between Glial Cells and Blood Proteins in the Pathophysiology of the Nervous System”, VI European Meeting on Glial Cell Function in Health and Disease, Berlin, Germany, September 3-6, 2003

2002- Ad hoc Reviewer for 16 scientific journals

2002 Young Investigator Award, International Society for Neurochemistry.

2002 Member, American Society for Cell Biology

2001 Member, Society for Neuroscience

2001 Member, New York Academy of Sciences

2000 Young Investigator Award, International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis.

1999 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) postdoctoral fellow (1999-2001)

1998 Women in Neuroimmunology Award, International Society of Neuroimmunology.

1998 Young Investigator Award, European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR).

1997 Best Poster Award, UK Multiple Sclerosis Society.

1996 European Molecular Biology (EMBO) fellow