 In 2000 Guan became a professor (Halvor Christensen Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences, 2003–2007) at UM.In 1998, Kun-Liang Guan was rewarded a MacArthur Fellowship, with a grant of $230,000 over five years.Before this, he won the Schering-Plough Award, by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB).