AAI ANNOUNCES 2019-20 PUBLIC POLICY FELLOWS

AAI is proud to announce the ninth class of AAI Public Policy Fellows Program (PPFP) participants. The PPFP engages early career scientists in advocating for biomedical research funding and in other public policy activities that impact the research enterprise and their own careers. Following careful review of the applications received, the AAI Committee on Public Affairs named the following ten individuals as the 2019-20 AAI Public Policy Fellows:

		Ty Crowl, Ph.D. University of California San Diego		Magdia De Jesus, Ph.D. University at Albany School of Public Health
		Nicholas Hess, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison		Rebecca Hesterberg, Ph.D. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
		Weishan Huang, Ph.D. Louisiana State University		Peter Morawski, Ph.D. Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason
		Dennis Neeld, Ph.D. Emory University School of Medicine		Shailbala Singh, D.V.M., Ph.D. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
		Anibal Valentin-Acevedo, Ph.D. Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine		Leah Wuescher, Ph.D. The University of Toledo

AAI is pleased to welcome this talented group of future science advocates, who will have the opportunity to visit Capitol Hill next year to serve as a voice for the immunology community.

For PPFP details or to inquire about applying for the program, see www.aai.org/Public-Affairs/PPFP or contact AAI Manager of Science Policy and Legislative Affairs Jake Schumacher at jschumacher@aai.org.