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American Philosophical Society Award, 2012
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Royal Society Fellowship Award, 2012
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Honorary Degree, Tufts University, 2012
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Honorary Degree, Bates College, 2012
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L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award, 2011
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The National Academy of Sciences recipient of the 2011
Richard Lounsbery Award
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- Dan David Prize Laureate, 2012
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- President, The North American Drosophila Board of Directors
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- McKusick Leadership Award, American Society of Human Genetics, 2011
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- Honorary Degree, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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President, American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB)
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Keynote speaker, 50th Anniversary of CMB Grad Program, UW-Madison
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- Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences, Stanford Medical Center
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Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
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Desai et al. (2011) PLoS Medicine chosen as “Genome Advance of the Month” by NHGRI
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- Appointed to the Rita Allen Board of Directors
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Barnum Museum Lecture, Tufts University
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President’s Lecture series, Princeton University
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