We acknowledge the following funding bodies that support(ed) our multidisciplinary research
and educational activities (since lab began mid-2012):
2024-2027: Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) Professorship, National Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
2024-2027: Wolfson Fellowship, The Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, UK
2024: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) SPARK Funding
2023-2024: EMBO Courses & Workshops Program Grant (Community-targeted grant for 2024 EMBO Chemical Biology Meeting)
2023-2027: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Funding
2023-2028: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (financed by Switzerland; grant rescinded following laboratory relocation to Oxford)
2023: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) R’Equip Instrumentation Grant (Community-targeted grant: high-end equipment acquisition for EPFL Proteomics Facility)
2021-2025: Swiss Cancer League / Swiss Cancer Foundation (financed by Switzerland; grant rescinded following laboratory relocation to Oxford)
2021-2023: Novartis Freenovation Award Funding
2021-2022: SB Intrafaculty seed funding
2020-2024: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) SPIRIT Funding (Community-targeted grant for the Global South)
2021-2023: EPFL-Interdisciplinary Research Funding
2021-2023: EPFL-KGJF Funding for research in nutrition & metabolism
2019-2020: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) SPARK Funding
2019: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Scientific Exchange (Community-targeted grant for 2020 NCCR Chemical Biology International Symposium)
2019-2023: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Funding
2019-2020: Novartis Foundation for medical-biological Research
2018-2022: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR): Chemical Biology (Phase III), Switzerland
2018-present: Industrial Collaborative Projects
2018-present: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
2017-2018: The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance through a Pershing Square Sohn Young Investigator in Cancer Research Prize
2017-2018: U.S. Department of the Navy – The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award
2016-2018: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through a Sloan Fellowship award
2015-2016: Burroughs Wellcome Fund through a collaborative research travel grant award
2015-2018: National Science Foundation – MRI instrumentation grant award (Community-targeted grant: high-end equipment acquisition for Cornell University Chemistry Department)
2014-2018: National Institutes of Health – Office of the Director through a New Innovator award
2014-2018: National Science Foundation – Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences through an NSF CAREER award
2014-2018: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation through a Beckman Young Investigator award
2014-2015: Cornell University & Weill Cornell Medicine through junior faculty lab start-up funds and an intercampus seed grant, and
2012-2013: Milstein Foundation through a Howard Milstein Sesquicentennial Fellowship award
The following Foundations/Award Programs are gratefully acknowledged for fellowships and awards in honor of PI and her team members:
Awards (PI) (during PI’s independent career only):
2024 Klaus Grohe Prize in Drug Discovery
2022 European Research Council Consolidator Grant Award
2022 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
2021 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Global Lectureship Award
2021 American Chemical Society (ACS) Cope Scholars Award
2020 Hermann Esterbauer Memorial Award
2020 European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) Award for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia
2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
2017 ACS Buck Whitney Award
2017 US Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator
2017 Pershing Square Sohn Young Investigator in Cancer Research Prize
2016 Sloan Fellowship
2016 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Rising Star Chemical Biologist Award, sponsored by ACS Chemical Biology
2016 ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Rising Star Chemist Award
2016 ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology (CRT) Young Investigator Award
2015 Burroughs Wellcome Fund award
2014 US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator award
2014 US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award
2014 Beckman Young Investigator award, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Recognition (team members: doctoral, postdoctoral, and master-enhancement research interns): Fellowships External to Cornell/EPFL
2024 International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellowship (to Najia Sherzay)
2024 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) International Postdoctoral Fellowship (to Kevin Fridianto)
2021 K99/R00 National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Fellowship (to Saba Parvez)
2017 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Program (to Jesse Poganik)
2016, 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (to Daniel Urul and Alexandra Van Hall-Beauvais)
2013, 2015 National Institutes of Health – Chemistry and Biology Interface Training Program (to Jesse Poganik and Joe Haegele)
2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute – International Predoctoral Fellowship Program (to Saba Parvez), and
2014 Ananda Mahidol Foundation (to Sine Wisitpitthaya, 2012 Fall – 2017 Spring)
Awards External to Cornell/EPFL
2023 Imperial College London Presidential PhD schlolarship (to Naura Antariksa)
2019 PSL International Chemical Biology Symposium Institute Curie, Poster Award in Organic and Biological Chemistry (to Dr. Xuyu Liu)
2016 Fall ACS National Meeting Travel Award (to Saba Parvez)
2015 ASBMB National Meeting Theme Poster Award (to Joe Haegele)
Awards within Cornell/EPFL
2024 LS2 Annual Meeting – Best Poster Award in Category Proteomics – to Jinmin Liu
2023 Teaching Assistants Excellence Award – to Alex Gao and Pierre Miranda
2021 NCCR Chemical Biology – best master thesis award (to Pierre Miranda)
2020 NCCR Chemical Biology – best master thesis award (to Jinmin Liu)
2017 Tunis Wentick Award (to Saba Parvez)
2016, 2018 Bauer Award (to Joe Haegele and Jesse Poganik)
2014, 2017 Covestro Teaching Excellence Award (to Sine Wisitpitthaya and Alexandra Van Hall-Beauvais)
The following fellowship and award programs are acknowledged for supporting the Aye lab’s undergraduate researchers:
2022 – Think Swiss Scholarship (to Tony Hu, exchange summer student from University of Toronto)
2017 – the Morris Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (to Paul Huang, Cornell Chemistry ’18)
2017 – the ASBMB National Meeting Undergraduate Competitive Travel Award (to Sanjna Surya, Cornell Biology ’18)
2017 – the Leo and Berdie Mandelkern Prize, Cornell University (to Vanha Pham, Cornell Chemistry ’17)
2017 – the George C. Caldwell Prize, Cornell University (to Shiv Chawla, Cornell Chemistry ’17)
2016 – the ASBMB National Meeting Theme Poster Award (to Vanha Pham, Cornell Chemistry ’17)
2016 – the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program (to Shiv Chawla, Cornell Chemistry and Biology ’17)
2013, 2016 – the Hill Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (to William Blessing, Cornell Engineering ’14; Sanjna Surya, Cornell Biology ’18)
2016 – the Barry Goldwater Scholarship (to Shiv Chawla, Cornell Chemistry and Biology ’17)
2014, 2017 – the Douglas Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (to Vanha Pham, Cornell Chemistry ’17; Lining Zheng, Cornell Chemistry ’18)
2014 – the DAAD RISE Scholarship of German Exchange Program (to Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Cornell Physics and Mathematics ’16)
2016 – the Amgen Summer Scholar Fellowship (to Vanha Pham, Cornell Chemistry ’17)
2016 – the Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize (to Shiv Chawla, Cornell Chemistry ’17)
2015 – the Hypercube Scholar Award (to Gene Hu, Cornell Chemistry ’15)
2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 – the ACS Cornell Section Undergraduate Research Award (to Eva Ge, Cornell Chemistry ’13; Dustin Lee, Cornell Chemistry ’15; Michael Disare, Cornell Chemistry ’17; and Paul Huang, Cornell Chemistry and Biology ’18)