• Australia-Harvard Fellowship -Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation
• International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Young Faculty Member Award
• University of Toronto 7T6 Alumni Early Career Award
• Outstanding abstract at the Biomedical Engineering Society Conference
• Keynote speaker - 8th World Biomaterials Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Biomedical Engineering Society Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems, Hong Kong

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Material Research Society (MRS)
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• American Physics Society (APS)

Referee Service:
• International Journal of Solids and Structures,
  Polymer, Acta Biomaterialia, Computational Materials Science,
  Mechanics of Materials, Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

Honors & Awards
• Louis and Bessie Stein Fellow
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Drexel University International Travel Award
• Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society
• Distinguished Service Award, MIT Faculty Committee on Student Life

Service
•  present Drexel Society of Women Engineers faculty advisor
•  Chair, Drexel mechanical engineering graduate student recruiting
•  Founder and director, Drexel Women in Engineering Research

Honors and Achievements:
Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee (nominated by the Governor of Connecticut), Member
40 Under 40 to Watch in 2008, Black Enterprise magazine
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Program Committee
Member - Biomedical Engineering Society
Member - Orthopaedic Research Society
Member - Society for Biomaterials

Awards received:
• "Excellence and Leadership in R & D",Integrated manufacturing technologies institute (IMTI) of NRC
• "Globe Reach", Integrated manufacturing technologies institute (IMTI) of NRC
• "Outstanding Research Achievement Awards
• Industrial Materials Institute (IMI) of NRC

Scholarly and professional activities
• Member of Editorial Board, journal "The Research & Reviews in Electrochemistry
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board, journal "Sensors & Transducers
• Member of the editorial board of the "International Journal on Advances in Networks
  and  Services.
•Editorial board member of journal "Current Chemical Research

Major Grants:
• National Natural Science Foundation of China: Development of DNA biochips for
detection of known mitochondrial DNA mutations (No.30470591)
• Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province: An novel microarray for detection of known mitochondrial DNA mutations associated with LHON syndromes (No.090413114)
• Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province: An novel microarray for detection of known mitochondrial DNA mutations associated with MELAS and MERRF syndromes (No.050430716)
• EU project: Development of optimized DNA and peptide or antibody arrays for
analyzing tRNA synthetase enzymes and identifying tRNA synthetase variants. Subproject
of a functional genomics study of lysyl-tRNA synthesis as a target for the diagnosis and treatment of microbial infections and mitochondrial myopathies
(EU Commission FP5 2TD: QLG2-CT-1999-00660)