2009-09-30: Sylvie Breton, PhD was among the first 42 recipients of Transformative R01 Awards, a new program designed to give recipients resources and flexibility to pursue high-risk projects that have the potential to overturn current scientific assumptions.

2009-06-12: Dr. Jenny (Hua) Lu was the recent recipient of a Claflin Distinguished Fellowship Award established to facilitate the academic careers of women in science at MGH.

2009-06-11: Dr. Jodie Babitt was awarded the prestigious Marcel Simon Award for excellence in research in hemochromatosis which is given every two years by the International BioIron Society for work on elucidating the key role of BMP6 in iron metabolism.

2009-02-12: The Executive Committee on Research and the MGH Board of Trustees are pleased to award the 2009 Martin Research Prize for Excellence in Basic Research to Sylvie Breton's Lab. In recognition of outstanding research achievements published in 2008 - 'Transepithelial Projections from Basal Cells are Luminal Sensors in Pseudostratified Epithelia' Winnie Wai Chi Shum, Nicolas Da Silva, Mary McKee, Peter J.S. Smith, Dennis Brown, and Sylvie Breton Cell 135: 1108-1117, 2008