| 2008 | Van Meter Award, American Thyroid Association |
| 2009 | NIH Asian & Pacific Islander American Organization (APAO) Award for outstanding accomplishments in biomedical research |
| 2011 | Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America |
| 2012 | Elected AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellow |
| 2022 | Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award, American Thyroid Association |
| 2021-2023 | President, North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (NASCE) (2019-2021, Vice-President/President-Elect) |
| 1983-4 | Predoctoral fellowship from the Ministry of Education, China |
| 2003 | Plenary speaker, Amphibian and Reptilian Endocrinology and Neurobiology Symposium, Jeju, Korea |
| 2007 | Member, Senior Biomedical Research Service (SBRS), NIH |
| 2009 | Keynote Lecturer, International Symposium on Amphibian and Reptile Endocrinology and Neurology (ISAREN 2009), Berlin, Germany |
| 2010-11 | Treasurer, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America |
| 2010-13 | Council of the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (NASCE) |
| 2012-13 | Council member, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America |
| 2015 | Plenary Lecture, Third Meeting of the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (NASCE 2015), Canada |
| 2018 | State-of-the-Art lecture, the 2018 Congress of the Asia and Oceania Society for Comparative Endocrinology (AOSCE), Sydney, Australia |
| 2015-2019 | Chair, Awards Committee, North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology |
| 2017-2020 | Chair, ENDA (Endocrinology-A Merit) Review Panel, Veteran’s Administration |
| 2020 | Keynote Speech, International Conference on Cell and Experimental Biology (CEB-2020) |
| 2021-2023 | The Council of the International Federation of Comparative Endocrinological Societies (IFCES) |
| 2015- | Council of the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (NASCE) |
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