Science (journal)
St. Leger has received several awards for his research, he was elected a fellow of the AAAS (2012), the American Academy of Microbiology (2013), the Royal Entomological Society of London (FRES) (2011), the Entomological Society of America (2019) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). He received the American Society for Microbiology Promega Biotechnology Research Award (2017) and was the inaugural recipient of the Tai Fung-Lan Award for International Cooperation from The Mycological Society of China (2016). St. Leger received an Honorary Doctorate from Exeter University in 2018 and the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most impactful paper published in Science (journal) in 2019. St. Leger gave the Founders lecture at the 2009 Society of Invertebrate Pathology Meeting.