The AAI Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by the AAI Council upon an AAI member. This award recognizes a deserving member for a career of scientific achievement and for contributions to AAI and fellow immunologists. Click here for more information on this award.
| Year ▼ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2017 | Richard J. Hodes, M.D. | NIA, NIH |
| 2016 | Olivera J. Finn, Ph.D. | Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med. |
| 2015 | Jonathan Sprent, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. | Garvan Inst. of Med. Res. |
| 2014 | Emil R. Unanue, M.D. | Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. in St. Louis |
| 2013 | Katherine L. Knight, Ph.D. | Stritch Sch. of Med., Loyola Univ. Chicago |
| 2012 | Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. | HHMI, Univ. of California, San Francisco |
| 2011 | James P. Allison, Ph.D. | HHMI, Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr. |
| 2010 | Susan L. Swain, Ph.D. | Trudeau Inst. |
| 2009 | Steven J. Burakoff, M.D. | Tisch Cancer Inst., Mout Sinai Med. Ctr. |
| 2008 | Robert R. Rich, M.D. | Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, Sch. of Med. |
| 2007 | Ellen S. Vitetta, Ph.D. | Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr. |
| 2006 | Hugh O. McDevitt, M.D., Ph.D. | Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2005 | Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. | NIAID, NIH |
| 2004 | Richard W. Dutton, Ph.D. | Trudeau Inst. |
| 2003 | Philippa Marrack, Ph.D. | HHMI, Natl. Jewish Med. and Res. Ctr. |
| 2002 | William E. Paul, M.D. | NIAID, NIH |
| 2001 | Charles A. Janeway, Jr., M.D. | HHMI, Yale Sch. of Med. |
| 2000 | Max D. Cooper, M.D. | HHMI, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham |
| 1999 | Henry Metzger, M.D. | NIAMS, NIH |
| 1998 | Leonard A. Herzenberg, Ph.D. | Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 1997 | Herman N. Eisen, M.D. | Massachusetts Inst. of Technol. |
| 1996 | Frank W. Fitch, M.D., Ph.D. | Univ. of Chicago |
| 1995 | Elvin A. Kabat, Ph.D. | Columbia Univ. |
| 1994 | David W. Talmage, M.D. | Univ. of Colorado |