TIME Magazine Man of the Year
Ernst Jung-Preis Fur Medizin 1991
Mayor’s (NY) Award for Excellence in Science and Technology 1993
Squibb Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America 1996
Bernard Fields Memorial Award 1997
Hoechst Marion Roussel Award 1999
Ahrens Award in Clinical Investigation 2003
Lewis and Jack Rudin New York Prize for Medical Research 2003
Avant Garde Award, NIH 2011
Prince Mahidol Award in Medicine 2014
Distinguished Alumni Award, Caltech 2015
Portrait of a Nation Prize 2017
National Leadership Award 2020
Stevens Triennial Prize 2022
UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence Award 2022
Heidelberger-Kabat Distinguished Lecturer 2024
Honorary Doctorate of Science, Macau University of Science & Technology 2024
Inaugural Fellow, Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering 2024
Presidential Medal (2001)
Time Man of the Year (1996)
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1998)
Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence - Immunity (2022)