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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.