He was elected as Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS) in 2012. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Toxicology and associate editor of several other journals including Toxicological Sciences, the official journal of the Society of Toxicology (SOT). He has also served as chairman of SweNanoSafe, a national platform for nanosafety commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of the Environment. He currently serves as a national expert on the OECD steering committee on advanced materials. Prof. Fadeel received the Environmental Medicine Prize (2011) for his work on the medical opportunities and risks of the nanotechnologies.