Applications are closed for 2025

AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award

  Applications are closed

This award recognizes up to 6 promising trainees (undergraduate students, graduate students, young professionals, and postdoctoral fellows) in the field of immunology. Selection is based on career promise and presentation of an outstanding first-author abstract selected for oral presentation in a Block Symposium. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Awardees will receive a $1,000 cash prize and $1,250 in travel support. Awardees will be recognized and presented with their award certificates at the AAI Business Meeting and Awards Presentation at IMMUNOLOGY2025™. Monetary awards will be paid by ACH or wire transfer to recipients following the AAI meeting. This award may not be combined with other awards or grants for the AAI annual meeting.

2025 AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award Recipients

Mackenzie J. Bender (AAI ’23)
Graduate Student
Yale Univ., USA

David R. Glass, Ph.D. (AAI ’24)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Ctr., USA

Jingyun Luan, Ph.D. (AAI ’24)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Univ. of Chicago, USA

Mark M. Painter, Ph.D. (AAI ’24)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA

Catherine M. Phelps (AAI ’24)
Graduate Student
Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Olivia Venezia (AAI ’24)
Graduate Student
Harvard Med. Sch., USA