2011 AAI Awards

AAI AWards Subject to Nomination

Deadline for 2011 Nominations: November 19, 2010
AAI Award for Human Immunology Research

This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the understanding of immune processes underlying human disease pathogenesis, prevention, and therapy. The award recipient will receive a $5,000 cash award, meeting registration, and travel support to the AAI Annual Meeting. The recipient will present his or her research in an award lecture.

  2011 Award Nomination Instructions

AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award

A dedicated mentor significantly influences a trainee’s professional development and career. This award recognizes the importance of this mentor-trainee relationship. AAI honors the award recipient’s contributions to the profession through outstanding mentoring. The award includes a plaque, meeting registration, and travel support to the AAI Annual Meeting. This award is presented at an Awards Presentation Program at the AAI Annual Meeting.

  2011 Award Nomination Instructions

AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award

This award recognizes an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology. The awardee will receive a $5,000 cash prize, meeting registration, and travel support to the AAI Annual Meeting for presentation of his or her research in an award lecture preceded by the award presentation. This award is generously supported through a grant from BD Biosciences.

  2011 Award Nomination Instructions

AAI Public Service Award (PSA)
Since 1994, the annual AAI Public Service Award (PSA) has been 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.

Details; Previous Recipients


AAI AWARDS HISTORY -- All Past Recipients

2010 AAI Career and Travel Awardees
2009 AAI Career and Travel Awardees
2008 AAI Awardees
2007 AAI Awardees
2006 AAI Awardees
2005 AAI Awardees

AAI Awards & Grants Subject to Application

Deadline for 2011 Applications: January 14, 2011
Pfizer-Showell Travel Award
This award recognizes the professional promise of an early career investigator (assistant professor or equivalent) by assisting the award recipient with travel to the AAI Annual Meeting to present his or her research. Selection is based on career progress and submission of an outstanding abstract selected for oral presentation in a Block Symposium at the meeting. The award recipient must attend the annual AAI Business Meeting and Awards Presentation held during the Annual Meeting, where he/she will be recognized and presented with his/her award. Support of up to $1500 will be provided for meeting registration and travel. This award is supported through an endowment from Henry J. Showell and Pfizer, Inc.

  2011 Award Application Instructions

AAI Junior Faculty Travel Grant
AAI is pleased to offer travel grants of $700 to young investigators to attend the AAI Annual Meeting. Applicants must submit a first-author abstract or be an author on a submitted abstract to IMMUNOLOGY 2011TM. Recipients will be presented a $700 cash award during the Annual Meeting.

  2011 Award Application Instructions

Cynthia Chambers Memorial-eBioscience Junior Faculty Award
Established to honor the memory of AAI member Dr. Cynthia Chambers, this award is intended to advance the career of a junior scientist who attends the AAI Annual Meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of cancer biology. The award recipient will receive a $1,000 cash award and a certificate during an Awards Presentation Program at the AAI Annual Meeting. This award is generously supported through a grant from eBioscience, Inc.
Award Background In Memoriam: Dr. Chambers

  2011 Award Application Instructions

AAI Minority Scientist Travel Award
Supported through the FASEB Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program and a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), NIH, this award provides travel support to eligible AAI members to attend the AAI Annual Meeting. Two types of awards are available (see application instructions, linked below), providing support of up to $1,850 for registration and meeting-related travel expenses. Award recipients are invited to attend the annual AAI Business Meeting and Awards Presentation, where they will be recognized.
  Coming this fall ﹘ 2011 Award Application Instructions
AAI Trainee Abstract Award
This award provides $500 to AAI Trainee Members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstract submitted to the AAI Annual Meeting is selected for oral presentation in a Block Symposium. Attendance at the meeting is mandatory and the first author must make the abstract presentation.

  2011 Award: How to Qualify

AAI Trainee Certification Form
This form must accompany award applications from trainees.
AAI Trainee Certification Form

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