2020 AAI Travel Award Recipients

Baylor Col. of Med.

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.

Mayo Clin.

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.

• Han Dong, Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Inst.
• Hui Fern Koay, Ph.D., Peter Doherty Inst. for Infection and Immunity, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
• Devon J. Eddins, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.

• Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Francisco
• John B. Grigg, Weill Cornell Grad. Sch. of Med. Sci.
• Annie Elong Ngono, Ph.D., La Jolla Inst. for Immunology

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.