The American Association of Immunologists

Current Issue:
June 15, 2013
vol. 190 (12)

Current Issue:
May-June 2013

Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D., is the 96th AAI President.

Dr. Bishop's Message to Members on goals and expectations for her term in office, July 1, 2012 –
June 30, 2013

Save the Dates! IMMUNOLOGY 2014™
May 2-6, 2014—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

View IMMUNOLOGY 2013™ Abstracts

• Introductory Course: July 13–18, 2013
Hotel Discount Ends on June 21!

Advanced Course: July 28–August 2, 2013
Hotel Discount Ends on July 5!

AAI Supports Travel Awards, Grants to Assist Scientists in Attending the 15th International Congress of Immunology

View Recipients Here

AAI History Online
In conjunction with the ongoing AAI Centennial celebration, the AAI History Online archive continues to expand and evolve. See the latest features and resources added to this living archive, including:

AAI Announces 2013-14 Public Policy Fellows!
Click here for complete program details.

FASEB Announces Second Annual BioArt Competition

AAI Conveys Sequestration Concerns to
Congressional Leaders

AAI sent letters to nine key Congressional leaders in late February expressing deep concern about the potential impact of sequestration. If Congress does not act to eliminate or modify the sequester, it will result in a $1.56 billion (5.1%) cut to NIH this year, and may result in even larger cuts to NIH over the next nine years. To view the letter, please click here.

Ralph Steinman The AAI Council is pleased to announce the re-naming of the AAI Award for Human Immunology Research in honor of the late AAI member Ralph Marvin Steinman, M.D., (1943–2011). The award will now be named the AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research.

Pamela J. Fink Appointed Next Editor-in-Chief
of The Journal of Immunology

AAI Public Policy Fellows Travel to Capitol Hill, Advocate for Federal Science Funding — Ten early-career AAI scientists from across the country met with their Congressional delegations to express their passion for biomedical research, seek their legislators' support. View the video here.

AAI News Archive

Meetings and Events Calendar

AAI History

Ruslan Medzhitov (AAI '00) is named the first recipient of the Else Kroner Fresenius Award.
Mark Shlomchik (AAI '96) is named University of Pittsburgh immunology chair; also honored as inaugural Lupus Insight Prize awardee.
Jean-Laurent Casanova (AAI '12), Akiko Iwasaki (AAI '00), and Russell Vance (AAI '10) receive HHMI investigator appointments.
Xue-Zhong Yu (AAI '97) joins the Medical University of South Carolina faculty.
Marc Jenkins (AAI '88) is appointed University of Minnesota Center for Immunology director.
James P. Allison (AAI '78) is inaugural recipient of AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Immunology.
Paula Lutz (AAI '88) is appointed Dean of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences.
Leroy E. Hood (AAI '69) and Jan T. Vilcek (AAI '78) are respective recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Richard A. Aster, M.D. (AAI '72) named 2012 Henry M. Stratton Medal recipient for breakthroughs in the study of immune disorders that affect blood cells.
Ronald H. Goldfarb, Ph.D. (AAI '88) named the Trudeau Institute's 6th President, Director, and CEO.
Kristine M. "Tina" Garza, Ph.D. (AAI '02) appointed Executive Director of the Society for Advancement of Hispanics / Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).
Five AAI members are among newly-elected Institute of Medicine members: Bruce R. Blazar, M.D. (AAI ’84); Carl H. June, M.D. (AAI ’87); Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’87); Jennifer M. Puck, M.D. (AAI ’12); and Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D. (AAI ’84).
Andrea Cooper, Ph.D. (AAI '96) is leading a Trudeau Institute collaboration with TB researchers in China to explore how their laboratory studies could help people afflicted with tuberculosis, not just mice.
Work by Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS (AAI '90) and colleagues investigating non alcoholic fatty liver disease is featured in Fall 2012 HHMI Bulletin.
Mario L. Santiago, Ph.D. (AAI '11) receives 2012 ICAAC (Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy) Young Investigator Awards for his HIV-related virology research.

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