2005:             Best Paper Award from the International Genetic Epidemiology Society for the paper

Horvath S, Xu X, Lake SL, Silverman EK, Weiss ST, Laird NM (2004) Family based tests for associating haplotypes with general phenotype data: application to asthma genetics. Genet Epidemiol, Vol 26, No 1, 61-69

Jan 2004:        The following paper wins the 1st prize at the annual American Urologic Association annual meeting (San Francisco, 2004)/ACMi essay contest:

Han KR, Seligson DB, Liu X, Horvath S, Shintaku PI, Thomas GV, Said JW, and Reiter RE.  Prostate Stem Cell Antigen (PSCA) expression is associated with Gleason score, seminal vesicle invasion, and capsular invasion in prostate cancer. 

Oct 20 2003:   The following article receives world-wide attention

Dewing P, Shi T, Horvath S, Vilain E (2003) Sexually dimorphic gene expression in mammalian brain precedes gonadal differentiation. Molecular Brain Research. Vol 118:82-90.

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May 2003:        Award from the European Society of Human Genetics for the second most cited paper of the European Journal of Human Genetics in 2001.

Horvath, S, Xu X, Laird NM (2001) "The family based association test method: strategies for studying general genotype-phenotype associations. Euro J Hum Gen 9: 301-306.    

May 2003:        The following paper wins 2nd place essay winner at the American Urological Association National meeting.

Bui MHT, Seligson D, Han K, Pantuck AJ, Dorey FJ, Huang Y, Horvath S, Leibovich BC, Liao S, Stanbridge E, Lerman M, Palotie A, deKernion JB, Figlin RA and Belldegrun AS (2003) Carbonic Anhydrase IX is an Independent Predictor of Survival in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Implications for Molecular Classification and Prognostication. Clin Cancer Res. Feb;9(2):802-11.