2015
Elected Fellow
American Academy of Microbiology (American Society for Microbiology)

2011
Elected Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science

2010
Member, RV144 HIV Clinical Vaccine Trials Committee on Humoral/Innate Immunity

2009, 2005, 2004, 2002: NYU School of Medicine Dean’s Incentive Awards

2008
Member, Scientific Advisory Board for R. Ruprecht (Dana-Farber Institute, Harvard Medical School) HIVRAD Program Project Grant

2008
Member, Scientific Advisory Board for M. Cho (University of Iowa Medical School) HIVRAD Program Project Grant

2003
Pioneer Lecturer: Immunology of AIDS, Keystone Conference

2003
Member
AIDS Research Review Study Section, NIAID

1994
Member
Advisory Group for Vaccine Issues & Objectives, NIH Office of AIDS Research

1994
US Chair, AIDS Panel, U.S.- Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, NIH

1992
Member
Vaccine Working Group, DAIDS, NIAID, NIH

1992
Member
AIDS Research Advisory Comittee (ARAC), NIAID/NIH

1990
Sustained Superior Performance Awards
Veterans Administration

1988
Member
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Special Study Section on AIDS

1985
Superior Performance Awards
Department of Veterans Affairs

1983
Chairman of the First and Second Workshops on AIDS at the Fifth & Sixth International Congresses of Immunology

1982
Co-author of two of the 100 most frequently cited papers published in 1982