Professor Cochran was named as a recipient of a Hellman Faculty Scholar Award. The Hellman Faculty Scholar fund was established in 2000 by Warren and Chris Hellman to support and encourage promising assistant professors. The Hellmans are aware that it is often difficult for junior faculty to obtain support for research after initial research funding has been expended. In an effort to support the next generation of tenure-track professors, they designed this award to offer assistance to promising young faculty in areas concerning the physical and life sciences, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences.

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Jennifer Cochran, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, was awarded the 2007 McCormick Award by the School of Medicine and the Office of Diversity and Leadership. These awards provide research/project funding to junior faculty women pursuing advancement, or to junior faculty men or women who support the advancement of women in medicine and/or medical research. The awards are supported by the McCormick Funds, which were established to support the advancement of women in medicine and/or medical research directly, or by supporting the mentoring, training and encouragement of women pursuing the study of medicine, in teaching medicine, and engaging in medical research.

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The Trustees of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation have named Dr. Jennifer Cochran the 47th Mallinckrodt Scholar. The award provides funding to support highly promising young investigators. The Foundation is interested in "advancing knowledge in the various fields of medical and health research," particularly in basic research with upstream potential for impacting disease.

Professor Jennifer Cochran was one of 15 faculty researchers nationwide to receive a prestigious Kimmel Scholar Award. The Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research funds the Kimmel Scholars Program, which each year provides research grants to the nation's most promising young cancer researchers. The goal of the grant program is to improve the basic understanding of cancer biology and to develop new methods for the prevention and treatment of cancer. The award will provide Professor Cochran with $100,000 per year for two years to pursue innovative research that will ultimately lead to the development of new protein-based agents for cancer therapy and molecular imaging applications.

Cochran received a grant for "Engineering Neurotrophin Proteins for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications." Deisseroth's grant, awarded with Theo Palmer, is for "Pulsed Magnetic Neural Excitation to Drive Stem Cell Differentiation."