2019 Forbes’ list of American’s Most Innovative Leaders
2019 Medicine Maker Power List as a Business Captain
2019 Massry Prize for Life-Changing Contributions to Science, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Prix Galein Award for Best Biotech Product, New York, NY
2017 Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame, Class of 2017
2016 E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances presented by the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA
2016 Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Montreal, Canada
2015 Keynote Speaker, TIDES 2015, San Diego, CA
2014 Scrip Lifetime Achievement Award, London, UK
2014 SMA Breakthrough Award, part of the Cure SMA Gala of Hope, Seal Beach, CA
2013 Distinguished Scientist Award presented by the San Diego section of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
2013 Corporate Director of the Year Award presented by The Corporate Directors Forum
2008 AAAS Fellow (for distinguished contributions), American Association for the Advancement of Science
2006 Distinguished Individual in Biotech, Reader Selected, Nature Biotechnology
2003 Finalist The 2003 World Technology Awards for Biotechnology and Fellow of The World Technology Network, San Francisco, CA
2002 Helix Award for Corporate Excellence, presented by the Long Island Life Sciences Initiative and sponsored by BIO Stony Brook University and the Center for Biotechnology
2002 The Ernst & Young 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year Award Recipient
2002 BioFUSION Life Sciences Innovator Award presented by the T Sector and Biocom, San Diego and sponsored by Pfizer La Jolla PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sun Microsystems
2001 Distinguished Alumnus of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Baylor College of Medicine
2001 Technology Leader of the Year Award, T-Sector Magazine
1999 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Butler University, Indianapolis
1998 Man of the Year, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
1992 Graduate Research Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine
1992 Joseph L. Melnick Distinguished Guest Lecturer
1991 Finalist, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Program, Ernst & Young
1988 Speaker, Baylor College of Medicine, 40th Anniversary
1986 Distinguished Professor, University of Kentucky
1984 Outstanding Lecturer, Baylor College of Medicine
1984 Keynote Speaker, Baylor College of Medicine, First Year Student Convocation
1983 Keynote Speaker, University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy Centennial
1981 Julius W. Sturmer Memorial Lecture Award, Rho Chi Honor Society, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
1978-1981 Favorite Baylor Faculty Member, Baylor College of Medicine
1974 Outstanding Lecturer in Basic Science, Baylor College of Medicine
1973 Institutional Research Award, National Cancer Institute
1973 Southern Medical Association Research Award
1971-1972 Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellowship
1970 Outstanding Graduating Medical Student in Pharmacology
1968-1971 Public Health Service Predoctoral Fellowship