2019 AAI Travel Award Recipients

AAI Memorial Awards

Lefrançois-BioLegend Award

Scott M. Anthony
Scott M. Anthony, Ph.D.

University of Iowa

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Leo Lefrançois, this award is intended to advance the career of a trainee who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of mucosal immunology.

This award is generously supported by BioLegend and donations from friends and colleagues of Dr. Lefrançois.

 

Lustgarten-Thermo Fisher Scientific Award

Matam Vijay-Kumar
Matam Vijay-Kumar

University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Joseph Lustgarten, this 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.

This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.


Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Award

Chunwan Lu
Chunwan Lu

Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Cynthia Chambers, this award is intended to advance the career of an early career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of cancer biology.

This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

 

AAI Travel Awards and Grants

Pfizer-Showell Travel Award

Si Ming Man
Si Ming Man

Australian National University

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 their research.

This award is supported through an endowment from Henry J. Showell and Pfizer, Inc.


AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award

Billur Akkaya, M.D., D.Phil., NIAID, NIH
Lalit Beura, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Meng Deng, B.D.S., M.S., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Robert Haines, Emory University
Simone L. Park, Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Australia
Derek J. Theisen, Washington University in St Louis


AAI Laboratory Travel Grant

AAI is supporting travel grants to mid-career and senior investigators (associate professor, full professor, or equivalent) to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting. These grants will provide up to two travel awards per laboratory. The grant is awarded to the PI or laboratory director as one recipient, and they may select a second recipient from their laboratory.


AAI Trainee Poster Award

This award provides travel support to AAI trainee members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for poster sessions only and found to be exceptional by the AAI Abstract Programming Chairs. Selection will be based on the originality and significance of the research being presented.


AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grant

AAI is supporting travel grants to undergraduate faculty to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting. The grant will also support travel costs for an undergraduate student of the recipient’s selection.


AAI Trainee Abstract Award

This award provides travel support to AAI Trainee members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for presentation in Block Symposia.


AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grant

AAI is supporting travel grants to young investigators (assistant professor or equivalent) to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting.


AAI Minority Scientist Travel Award

This award provides travel support to eligible underrepresented minority (URM) scientists, including trainees and early-career faculty members.

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