The American Association of Immunologists

AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award Past Recipients

(formerly AAI-Huang Foundation Trainee Achievement Award, 1999-2007;
AAI-Invitrogen Trainee Achievement Award, 2008-2010;
AAI-Life Technologies Trainee Achievement Award, 2011-2014 )

This award recognizes up to six promising trainees in the field of immunology. Click here for more information on this award.

2019 Awardees

Year ▲	Recipient	Position	Institution
2019	Billur Akkaya, M.D., D.Phil.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH
2019	Lalit Beura, BVSc, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Minnesota
2019	Meng Deng, B.D.S., M.S.	Graduate Student	Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2019	Robert Haines	Graduate Student	Emory Univ.
2019	Simone L. Park, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
2019	Derek J. Theisen	Graduate Student	Washington Univ. in St Louis

2018 Awardees

Year ▲	Recipient	Position	Institution
2018	Munir Akkaya, M.D., D.Phil.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH
2018	Yuefeng Huang, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH
2018	Jessica Kotov	Graduate Student	Univ. of Minnesota
2018	Stephen Mok, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.
2018	Spencer C. Wei, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.
2018	Qifan Zhu	Graduate Student	Univ. of Tennessee Hlth. Sci. Ctr.

2017 Awardees

Year ▲	Recipient	Position	Institution
2017	Oscar A. Aguilar	Graduate Student	Univ. of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Inst.
2017	Semir Beyaz	Graduate Student	Harvard Med. Sch.
2017	Michael G. Constantinides, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH
2017	Rajendra Karki, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp.
2017	Hadi Maazi, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Southern California
2017	Kelsey Voss	Graduate Student	Uniformed Serv. Univ. of the Hlth. Sci.

2016 Awardees

Year ▲	Recipient	Position	Institution
2016	Timotheus Y.F. Halim, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	MRC Lab. of Molecular Biol.
2016	Emma L. Kuan, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Benaroya Res. Inst.
2016	Si Ming Man, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp.
2016	Timothy E. O'Sullivan, Ph.D.	Research Scholar	Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
2016	Xiaodi Wu	Graduate Student	Univ. of Washington Sch. of Med.
2016	Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of California, San Diego

2015 Awardees

Year ▲	Recipient	Position	Institution
2015	Aimee M. Beaulieu, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
2015	Michael Jeffrey Cho	Graduate Student	Univ. of Pennsylvania
2015	David J. DiLillo, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Rockefeller Univ.
2015	Lindsey E. Padgett	Graduate Student	Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham
2015	Amy V. Paschall	Graduate Student	Georgia Regents Univ.
2015	Pablo A. Penaloza-MacMaster, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr., Harvard Med. Sch.