2021 AAI Meeting Award Recipients

AAI Memorial Awards

Lefrançois-BioLegend Award

Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz
Jacob Van Winkle

Oregon Hlth. & Sci. Univ.

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

Jeffrey Nolz
Venuprasad K. Poojary, Ph.D.

Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.

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

Laura Rogers
Timotheus Y.F. Halim, Ph.D.

Univ. of Cambridge

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 Meeting Awards and Grants

Pfizer-Showell Travel Award

Robert Samstein
Monika Bambouskova, Ph.D.

Washington Univ. Sch. of Med.

This award recognizes the professional promise of an early career investigator (assistant professor or equivalent) by assisting the award recipient with registration support for 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

This award recognizes up to six promising trainees in the field of immunology. Selection is based on career promise and presentation of an outstanding first-author abstract selected for a Block Symposium. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
 
Adeleye O. Adeshakin

Adeleye O. Adeshakin

Graduate Student
Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci.

Elliot H. Akama-Garren

Elliot H. Akama-Garren

Graduate Student
Harvard Med. Sch.

Ian C. Boothby

Ian C. Boothby

Graduate Student
Univ. of California, San Francisco

Elizabeth S. Borden

Elizabeth S. Borden

Graduate Student
Univ. of Arizona Col. of Med.

Ian C. Boothby

Betsabel J. Chicana

Graduate Student
Univ. of California, Merced

Masato Ogishi, M.D.

Masato Ogishi, M.D.

Graduate Student
The Rockefeller Univ.


AAI Laboratory Travel Grant

AAI is supporting meeting registration for 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 two complimentary meeting registrations 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 Late-Breaking Poster Award

This award provides support to AAI Trainee members (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) whose late-breaking, first-author abstracts submitted to Virtual IMMUNOLOGY2021™ are found to be exceptional by the reviewers.


 


AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grant

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


AAI Trainee Abstract Award

This award provides 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 meeting registration for young investigators (assistant professor or equivalent) to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting.


AAI Minority Scientist Travel Award

This award provides meeting registration for eligible underrepresented minority (URM) scientists, including trainees and early-career faculty members.

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