2007 National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance - BME Idea (3rd Place)
R&D Magazine's Top 25 Micro/Nano Technologies of the year - Nanofiber nerve graft materials, July 2007
"Nanomedicine Opens the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration" - Science Daily, May 21, 2007
"A Bit of Stretch" - UC Berkeley Science Review, 2007, Issue 12
2007 Global Life Science Competition (1st Place)
"Don't Have a Coronary" - California Magazine, March/April 2007, Vol. 118, No. 2
"Study: Adult Stem Cells Can Become Muscle" - The Daily Californian, November 1, 2006
2006 National Inventors Hall of Fame - Collegiate Inventors Competition (Graduate Division Winner)
2006 National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance - BME Idea (1st Place)
"Architects of Arterial Scaffolding" - UC Berkeley Engineering News - September 1, 2006 Vol. 77, no. 3F
"Stretching Bone Marrow Stem Cells Pushes Them Towards Becoming Blood Vessels" - UC Berkeley News, October 23, 2006
"Stretching Could Be Stem Cell Catalyst" - San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 2006
"Coaxing More From Adult Stem Cells" - CBS News, September 13, 2006
2006 UC Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition (Finalist)
2005 UC Berkeley Technology Breakthrough Competition (Finalist)
Graduate Researcher Award, Biomedical Engineering Society 2004
Graduate Researcher Award and Unergraduate Student Research Award, Biomedical Engineering Society 2003