2017: DIOGO'S BOOK "EVOLUTION DRIVEN BY ORGANISMAL BEHAVIOR" WAS LISTED AMONG 8 BEST BOOKS ON EVOLUTION IN 2017 BY https://bioteaching.com/best-science-books-of-2017-evolution/

2017: Diogo CHOSEN BY THE AAA (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS) TO REPRESENT THE AAA AT THE HAPS (HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY SOCIETY) 2017 ANNUAL MEETING (Salt Lake City, Utah, US).

2016: Diogo received the OUTSTANDING FACULTY RESEARCHER AWARD 2016/2017 of the Howard University College of Medicine, 9 November 2016, Washington DC, US.

2016: "ANATOMICAL SOCIETY" Award for Best Runner-Up Anatomical Paper (J. Anat.) in 2015: DIOGO, R., S. WALSH, C. SMITH, J. M. ZIERMANN & V. ABDALA (2015). Towards the resolution of a long-standing evolutionary question: muscle identity and attachments are mainly related to topological position and not to primordium or homeotic identity of digits. Journal of Anatomy 226: 523-529.

2016: "INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTION, MEDICINE & PUBLIC HEALTH" Travel Award to Rui Diogo to attend International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health meeting 2016 in Durham, NC, June 22-25, 2016.

2016: "FELLOW OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS" Award 2016 to Diogo, named a Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, a rank designed to "honor distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and in their overall contributions to the anatomical sciences" and who "are considered to be in the top 10% tier of all AAA eligible members".

 2015: "AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS 2015 INNOVATION AWARD" - To Diogo (PI) and co-PIs Julia Molnar, and Borja Esteve-Altava, of Howard U., in collaboration with  co-PIs Julia Boughner (Uni. Saskatchewan) and Christopher Smith (Mount Sinai), by the planet's leading anatomical association (AAA), for their project "Anatomical Network Analysis", which introduces to AAA and the anatomical community a powerful  new method to quantify musculoskeletal modularity, integration, complexity and evolvability.

 2015: "ELSEVIER'S GRAY'S ANATOMY ART CONTEST"  - Christopher Smith was selected as 2nd place in  one of the most prestigious competitions in the word, and his drawing will be featured in the 41st    ebook  edition of one of the most famous and used anatomical references in the planet, Gray's Anatomy.

2014: "AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS" Visiting Scholarship to Julia Molnar to visit the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Stephanie E. Pierce Lab (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2015).

2014: "NSF-NESCENT (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)" Travel Award to Rui Diogo to attend International Society for Evolution, Medicine and public health meeting 2015 in Tempe, Arizona, March 19-21, 2015.

2014: "NSF-NESCENT (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)" Travel Award to Christopher Smith to attend International Society for Evolution, Medicine and public health meeting 2015 in Tempe, Arizona, March 19-21, 2015.

2014: "INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTION, MEDICINE & PUBLIC HEALTH" Student Travel Award to Christopher Smith to attend International Society for Evolution, Medicine and public health meeting 2015 in Tempe, Arizona, March 19-21, 2015.

2014: "AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS" Student Travel Award to Christopher Smith to attend AAA 2015 in Boston, March 28-April 1, 2015.

2014: "Fundacao Luso-americana (Portugal)" Grant/Award awarded to Rui Diogo to give a series of Conferences in Portugal in the end of December 2014 and to promote further collaboration between Portuguese and US institutions in the fields of evolutionary, developmental and comparative biology.

2014: "NESCENT (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)" Short-Term Visitor Award to write book "Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology: an Evolutionary and Developmental Guide for Medical Students", which will 1) demonstrate the useful application of evolutionary theory to medical students; 2) help them to better recall, understand and apply contemporary knowledge of topology, function and variation in human gross anatomy using principles of evo-devo; 3) decrease the huge gap between medical and evolutionary biology education in the U.S.A.

2014: "ANATOMICAL SOCIETY" Award for Best Anatomical Paper (J. Anat.) in 2013: DIOGO, R., Z. PENG & B. WOOD (2013). First comparative study of primate morphological and molecular evolutionary rates including muscle data: implications for the tempo and mode of primate and human evolution. Journal of Anatomy 222, 410-418.

2014: "Association of Medical Illustrators" Award of Merit for an illustration in a master's thesis - Christopher Smith, for his master thesis at Diogo's lab about birth defects, cyclopia and trisomies in humans.

2014: "VESALIUS TRUST" Izez Demonet Scholarship - Christopher Smith, for the most outstanding graduate student merit and potential in the field (both of research and illustrations) of medical illustration for 2014, within the whole US , for his master thesis at Diogo's lab about birth defects, cyclopia and trisomies in humans.

 
2014: "VESALIUS TRUST" Vesalian Scholar - Christopher Smith, for his master thesis at Diogo's lab about muscle defects in a cyclopic T-18 human fetus, and their evolutionary, developmental and medical implications.

2014: "AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS"/"KEITH AND MARION MOORE" 2014 Young Anatomist's Publication Award to Janine M. Ziermann: ZIERMANN  JM,  DIOGO R (2013) Cranial muscle development in the model organism Ambystoma mexicanum: implications for tetrapod and vertebrate comparative and evolutionary morphology and notes on ontogeny and phylogeny. Anatomical Record 296, 1031-1048.