Travel Award Applications for IMMUNOLOGY2024™ Close Tuesday, December 5
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.
Eligibility
To be eligible, an applicant must meet all of these requirements:
- Be an AAI Trainee member paid through the end of 2025 at the time of application submission.
- Have completed the submission of a first-author abstract (oral and poster) to IMMUNOLOGY2025™ prior to application. Be sure to select the option during abstract submission that indicates you are willing to make an oral (Block Symposium) presentation at the meeting.
Application Instructions
Please submit award application by logging into your AAI member account at https://account.aai.org, choosing Award Application in the Member Services menu, and selecting Apply Now for the applicable award in the award list. All documents should be uploaded as a single combined PDF file with a file name of less than 25 characters. Please be aware that the single, combined PDF must be no larger than 20MB. Packages that are not complete will not be considered.
Please include the following in the application package:
- A cover letter (not to exceed two (2) pages) clearly designating “AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award” and including the following information:
- Full name (first, middle initial, last)
- Title and affiliation
- Current mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address
- A brief statement of applicant’s research goals
- Title(s), ID number(s), and topic category of abstract(s) submitted to IMMUNOLOGY2025™
- Applicant’s curriculum vitae, including current funding and past AAI awards (NIH Biosketch style)
- A copy of the abstract submitted to IMMUNOLOGY2025™ (including the abstract control ID number, abstract topic category, title, complete author list in order, and body text)
- One (1) letter of recommendation from applicant’s advisor/mentor
Complete application packages must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern on November 19, 2024. Packages must be uploaded as a single combined PDF file through your AAI member account at https://account.aai.org. Incomplete application packages or applications that do not comply with the stated instructions will not be considered. AAI will not accept materials sent separately, through regular mail, or by email. Final award decisions are at the discretion of AAI.
2024 AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award Recipients
Subhash B. Arya, Ph.D. (AAI ’23)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Univ. of Michigan, USA
Maile K. Hollinger (AAI ’18)
Graduate Student
Univ. of Virginia, USA
Simone A. Minnie, Ph.D. (AAI ’23)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Ctr., USA
Patricia N. Rodriguez-Morales (AAI ’23)
Graduate Student
Harvard Med. Sch., USA
Hope E. Steele (AAI ’22)
Graduate Student
Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr., USA
Dongqing Xu, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins Univ., USA