Dr. Grill has been the recipient of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center Junior Investigator Award, the Alzheimer’s Association Turken Research Prize, the Community Spirit Award from OPICA Adult Day Services, and the P. Gene and Elaine Smith Term Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. He has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Alzheimer’s Association, the BrightFocus Foundation, the Hartford Foundation, the American Federation for Aging Research, and the University of California. He is the co-leader of the Internal Ethics Committee and the Recruitment Unit for the NIA-funded Alzheimer's Clinical Trial Consortium. He is the Chair of the Internal Ethics Committee for the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement and for HFC (formerly Hilarity for Charity). In 2017, he co-chaired a workgroup as part of the NIH’s Inclusion Across the Lifespan workshop, a congressional mandate in the 21st Century Cures Act (P.L. 114-255). He is part of a working group sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association charged with creating a national strategy for recruitment to Alzheimer’s disease clinical research. In 2021, he was an invited presenter and contributor to "A Workshop on Biomarkers and Other Pre-Clinical Diagnostics of Alzheimer's Disease," sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.