The American Association of Immunologists

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IMMUNOLOGY2013™, the AAI Annual Meeting
Celebrating 100 Years — May 3–7, 2013
in Honolulu, Hawaii

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AAI-submitted image is among 10 winning entries in
first annual FASEB Bio-Art competition!

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AAI mourns death of biomedical research champion
Senator Arlen Specter

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AAI Invites Applications for the 2013-2014
Public Policy Fellows Program (PPFP)
Application Deadline: January 24, 2013

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Applications are invited for the 2013 AAI Travel Awards and Grants, which foster the promise and professional development of early- and mid-career investigators by assisting them with travel to the AAI annual meeting. Let AAI help you advance your career! Apply today!

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Nominations are invited for the 2013 AAI Career Awards, which honor immunologists of extraordinary scientific achievement and promise. AAI Members! Don't miss the opportunity to nominate a worthy colleague for awards that are among the leading professional honors presented annually to immunologists!

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Else Kröner Fresenius Immunology Award established;
applications invited by AAI, IUIS

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The 2012 Introductory Course in Immunology was held
July 14-19, 2012, in Philadelphia; the 2012 Advanced Course
in Immunology was held July 29 - August 3, 2012, in Boston.

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Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D., served as the 95th AAI President.

Dr. Berg's Message to Members at the outset of her term in office,
July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012.

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AAI 2012 Election Results Announced

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IMMUNOLOGY2012™ Scientific Program

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2012 AAI Career and Travel Award Recipients

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AAI established the Lustgarten-eBioscience Memorial Award to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Joseph Lustgarten. The award is intended to advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI Annual Meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of immune regulation.

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AAI Joins in Mourning the Loss of Ralph Steinman; See Rockefeller University announcement

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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to late Ralph Steinman (AAI '75), and to Bruce Beutler (AAI '06) and Jules Hoffman

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Colleagues and Protegés Remember Baruj Benacerraf (AAI '57), Nobel Laureate (1980) and past AAI President (1973)

• Christopher Karp, M.D. (AAI '95) joins the Gates Foundation as deputy director of host-pathogen & vaccine discovery for the foundation's Global Health Program.
• Marsha Wills-Karp, Ph.D. (AAI '04) joins the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as Environmental Health Sciences chair.
• Eicke Latz, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '08) awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Research Prize.
• Work of Dan H. Barouch, Ph.D., M.D. (AAI '06) on an AIDS vaccine is featured in the Washington Post Health and Science Section.
• Research by Michael Oldstone, M.D. (AAI ’70) on how cytokine storms contribute to flu virus potency is featured in the Washington Post Health and Science Section.