The AAI Public Service Award (PSA) is bestowed on "individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advocacy and support of basic biomedical and immunologic research" and who have "distinguished themselves in such diverse fields as public affairs and policymaking, journalism and scientific writing, scientific research, research administration, minority recruitment and education in the sciences, and disease research advocacy."
AAI President Jeremy Boss (right) presents the AAI PSA to Andrew Burnett from the Office of Senator Richard Shelby
(L-R): Jake Schumacher, Michele Hogan, Lauren Gross, Eugene Oltz, Jeremy Boss, Representative Nita Lowey, Gary Koretzky, Ross Kedl, Edith Lord, Lauren Brodd, and Akiko Iwasaki
Year ▼ | Recipient |
2018 | Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) |
2017 | Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)
Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO)
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2015 | Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) |
2014 | Alan Alda, Founder, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University |
2013 | Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) |
2011 | Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
Representative Brian Bilbray (R-CA) |
2010 | Representative David Obey (D-WI) |
2009 | Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Families USA (Ron Pollack, Executive Director) |
2007 | Dr. Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging |
2006 | Vicki and Fred Modell, Co-founders of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF) |
2005 | Frankie Trull, President, National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR) and Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) |
2004 | Mort Kondracke, journalist/commentator and Roll Call Executive Editor |
2003 | Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) |
2002 | Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, former Acting Director/Deputy Director, NIH |
2001 | Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) |
2000 | Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
1999 | Representative Dan Miller (R-FL) |
1997 | Senator Connie Mack, III (R-FL)
Sam Donaldson, ABC News |
1996 | Bradie Metheny, former publisher, Washington FAX |
1995 | Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR) |
1994 | Representative John Porter (R-IL) |