- 1970 – Bnei-Brith prize, Distinguished Student (Hebrew University, Israel).
- 1971 – Prize for Distinguished B.Sc. Students (Hebrew University, Israel).
- 1977 – Landau Prize for Ph.D. Students (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel).
- 1978 – Chaim Weizmann Award for Postdoctoral Training.
- 1985 – Prof. Stein Prize for Distinguished Work on the Visual System, Tel Aviv University.
- 1995 – International Award in Ophthalmology, Singapore.
- 1996 – Glaucoma Foundation Award.
- 1998 – Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis award.
- 1999 – Alcon Research Award for Outstanding Contributions in vision research.
- 2001 – The 22nd Annual Peter and Eva Safar Annual Lectureship in Medical Sciences and Humanities, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine.
- 2002 – Friedenwald Award, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Award for outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences in vision and ophthalmology. - 2002 – The G. Heiner Sell Memorial Lectureship for outstanding achievement in the field of spinal cord injury; the American Spinal Cord Injury Association (ASIA).
- 2002 – International Glaucoma Review Award for daring, breakthrough, creative, original research in glaucoma.
- 2008 – NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) Distinguished Investigator award.
- 2008 – Honorary doctorate, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- 2009 – Shaked Prize, National award for outstanding brain research.
- 2014 – Honorary Member by the World Immunopathology Organization (WIPO).
- 2015 – The 2015 Blumberg Prize for excellence in medical science, Israel.
- 2016 – Accolade from the annual PROSE Awards for the book “NEUROIMMUNITY: How Brain Science Will Revolutionize the Way We Live and Age”, by Michal Schwartz with Anat London, Yale University Press (https://proseawards.com/winners/).
- 2016-2018 – President of the International Society of Neuroimmunology.
- 2017 – The Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research.
- 2018 – Global Leader of Innovation Award, iNNOVEX2018.
- 2018 – Honorary doctorate, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
- 2019 – 2019 outstanding mentor of the year by the Israel Neuroscience society.
- 2019 – EMET Prize in Biomedical Research
- 2022 – Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS-EJN) Award given in recognition of outstanding career in the area of neuroimmunology.
- 2023 – Israel Prize in Life Science, 2023