Gilbert's other awards include being named Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor (2015),[2] the Pfeiffer Endowed Professorship for Cancer Research (2015), and the Florida State University Graduate Mentorship award (2016).
[3] He also maintains ReplicationDomain, a free online database resource for storing, sharing and visualizing large-scale chromosome mapping data.
In 2020, Florida State University conducted an investigation into Gilbert's behavior prompted by accusations of sexual misconduct.
[4][6] Gilbert acknowledged some of the alleged incidents and said others were "hearsay, taken out of context, or false", and attributed some of his behavior to "poor judgement" resulting from events in his personal life.
[5] He resigned and moved to the San Diego Biomedical Research Institute in June 2021, taking two NIH grants with him.