March 2009: American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) “Scholar in Cancer Research”-Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Award- $1800.00

May 2008: AACR’s “Scholar in Cancer Research”-MSI Award- $1800.00

April 2008: TSU’s Award for the initiation of a pilot project on “Metabolomic and Transcriptomic studies of prostate cancer aggressiveness by ethnicity”- $8000.00

May 2007: AACR’s “Scholar in Cancer Research”-MSI Award- $1800.00

May 2006: AACR’s “Scholar in Cancer Research”-MSI Award- $1800.00

December 2000- December 2002: University of Texas- Houston Health Science Center Minority faculty Development Award- $15,000.00.

August 1998-August 1999: Teaching Award for the University of Houston’s Scholar Enrichment Program (SEP).

August 1991- August 1995: Norwegian Government Award for Higher Education- $4,000.00 per semester