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.

1999–2022 Awardees

Year:

Year	Recipient	Position	Institution	Sort Name
2022	Heather L. Caslin	Postdoctoral Fellow	Vanderbilt Univ.	Caslin
2022	Jing Li	Postdoctoral Fellow	Stanford Univ.	Li
2022	Jorge F. Ortiz-Carpena	Graduate Student	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Ortiz-Carpena
2022	Nataliya Prokhnevska	Graduate Student	Emory Univ.	Prokhnevska
2022	Daniel F. Zegarra Ruiz	Postdoctoral Fellow	Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.	Zegarra Ruiz
2022	Zinan Zhang	Graduate Student	Harvard Med. Sch.	Zhang
2021	Adeleye O. Adeshakin	Graduate Student	Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci.	Adeshakin
2021	Elliot H. Akama-Garren	Graduate Student	Harvard Med. Sch.	Akama-Garren
2021	Ian C. Boothby	Graduate Student	Univ. of California, San Francisco	Boothby
2021	Elizabeth S. Borden	Graduate Student	Univ. of Arizona Col. of Med.	Borden
2021	Betsabel J. Chicana	Graduate Student	Univ. of California, Merced	Chicana
2021	Masato Ogishi, M.D.	Graduate Student	The Rockefeller Univ.	Ogishi
2020	Han Dong, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Dana-Farber Cancer Inst.	Dong
2020	Devon J. Eddins	Graduate Student	Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.	Eddins
2020	Annie Elong Ngono, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	La Jolla Inst. for Immunology	Ngono
2020	Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of California, San Francisco	Ferreira
2020	John B. Grigg	Graduate Student	Weill Cornell Grad. Sch. of Med. Sci.	Grigg
2020	Hui Fern Koay, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Peter Doherty Inst. for Infection and Immunity, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia	Koay
2019	Billur Akkaya, M.D., D.Phil.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Akkaya
2019	Lalit Beura, BVSc, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Minnesota	Beura
2019	Meng Deng, B.D.S., M.S.	Graduate Student	Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Deng
2019	Robert Haines	Graduate Student	Emory Univ.	Haines
2019	Simone L. Park, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Melbourne, Australia	Park
2019	Derek J. Theisen	Graduate Student	Washington Univ. in St Louis	Theisen
2018	Munir Akkaya, M.D., D.Phil.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Akkaya
2018	Yuefeng Huang, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Huang
2018	Jessica Kotov	Graduate Student	Univ. of Minnesota	Kotov
2018	Stephen Mok, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.	Mok
2018	Spencer C. Wei, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.	Wei
2018	Qifan Zhu	Graduate Student	Univ. of Tennessee Hlth. Sci. Ctr.	Zhu
2017	Oscar A. Aguilar	Graduate Student	Univ. of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Inst.	Aguilar
2017	Semir Beyaz	Graduate Student	Harvard Med. Sch.	Beyaz
2017	Michael G. Constantinides, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Constantinides
2017	Rajendra Karki, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp.	Karki
2017	Hadi Maazi, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Southern California	Maazi
2017	Kelsey Voss	Graduate Student	Uniformed Serv. Univ. of the Hlth. Sci.	Voss
2016	Timotheus Y.F. Halim, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	MRC Lab. of Molecular Biol.	Halim
2016	Emma L. Kuan, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Benaroya Res. Inst.	Kuan
2016	Si Ming Man, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp.	Man
2016	Timothy E. O'Sullivan, Ph.D.	Research Scholar	Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.	O'Sullivan
2016	Xiaodi Wu	Graduate Student	Univ. of Washington Sch. of Med.	Wu
2016	Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of California, San Diego	Zhong
2015	Aimee M. Beaulieu, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.	Beaulieu
2015	Michael Jeffrey Cho	Graduate Student	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Cho
2015	David J. DiLillo, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Rockefeller Univ.	DiLillo
2015	Lindsey E. Padgett	Graduate Student	Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham	Padgett
2015	Amy V. Paschall	Graduate Student	Georgia Regents Univ.	Paschall
2015	Pablo A. Penaloza-MacMaster, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr., Harvard Med. Sch.	Penaloza-MacMaster
2014	Dingding An, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Harvard Med. Sch.	An
2014	Baoyu Liu, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Georgia Inst. of Technol.	Liu
2014	Carrie L. Lucas, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Lucas
2014	Nathan Mathewson	Graduate Student	Univ. of Michigan Med. Sch.	Mathewson
2014	Melissa Tjota	Graduate Student	Univ. of Chicago	Tjota
2014	Noah J. Tubo, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Minnesota	Tubo
2013	Greg M. Delgoffe, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp.	Delgoffe
2013	Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Tufts Univ. Sch. of Med.	Vanaja
2013	Feng-Yen Li,Ph.D.	MD-PhD Student	Univ. of California, San Francisco	Li
2013	Gabriel B. Loeb	MD-PhD Student	Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional	Loeb
2013	Laurel A. Monticelli	PhD Student	Perelman Sch. of Med., Univ. of Pennsylvania	Monticelli
2013	Jae-Kwang Yoo,Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Virginia	Yoo
2012	Burton E. Barnett	Graduate Student	Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Med.	Barnett
2012	Jarish N. Cohen	Graduate Student	Univ. of Virginia	Cohen
2012	Chao Ma	Graduate Student	California Inst. of Technol.	Ma
2012	Rebecca Mathew, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Chicago	Mathew
2012	Caroline J. Padro	Graduate Student	Ohio State Univ.	Padro
2012	Jakob von Moltke	Graduate Student	Univ. of California, Berkeley	von Moltke
2011	Jennifer M. Bomberger, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Dartmouth Med. Sch.	Bomberger
2011	Patricia C. Fulkerson, M.D., Ph.D.	Clinical Fellow	Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr.	Fulkerson
2011	Braedon McDonald	Graduate Student	Univ. of Calgary	McDonald
2011	Jeffrey Mold, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of California, San Francisco	Mold
2011	Moutih Rafei, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Investigator	Inst. for Res. in Immunology and Cancer, Univ. of Montreal	Rafei
2011	Vijay A. K. Rathinam, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Massachusetts Med. Sch.	Rathinam
2010	John S. Cho, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of California, Los Angeles	Cho
2010	Lauren W. Collison, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp.	Collison
2010	Selene Nuñez-Cruz, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Nuñez-Cruz
2010	Rebecca C. Obeng	Graduate Student	Univ. of Virginia	Obeng
2010	Kari A. Shirey, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Med.	Shirey
2010	R. Patrick Weitzel	Graduate Student	Case Western Reserve Univ. Sch. of Med.	Weitzel
2009	Omer Dushek	Graduate Student	Univ. of British Columbia	Dushek
2009	Pui Y. Lee	Graduate Student	Univ. of Florida	Lee
2009	Martin Prlic, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Univ. of Washington	Prlic
2009	Jie Sun, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Univ. of Virginia	Sun
2009	Joseph C. Sun, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Univ. of California, San Francisco	Sun
2009	Fengyi Wan, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Wan
2008	Sara L. Colpitts	Graduate Student	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Colpitts
2008	Gislâine A. Martins, Ph.D.	Post Doctoral Research Scientist	Columbia Univ. Col. of Physicians and Surgeons	Martins
2008	Ana V. Miletic Sedy, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Burnham Inst. for Med. Res.	Sedy
2008	Pushpa Pandiyan, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Pandiyan
2008	Thomas A. Stoklasek	Graduate Student	Univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr.	Stoklasek
2008	Alexander Zarbock, M.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	La Jolla Inst. for Allergy and Immunology	Zarbock
2007	Parinaz Aliahmad	Graduate Student	Scripps Res. Inst.	Aliahmad
2007	Jacques Moisan, Ph.D	Postdoctoral Fellow	Brigham and Women’s Hosp.	Moisan
2007	Joseph M. Volpe	Graduate Student	Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.	Volpe
2007	Elizabeth Wohlfert	Graduate Student	Univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr.	Wohlfert
2007	Weifeng Xu, Ph.D.	Research Fellow	Weill Cornell Med. Col.	Xu
2007	Colby Zaph, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Zaph
2006	Maria Guerrero-Plata, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Univ. of Texas, Galveston	Guerrero-Plata
2006	Katrina K. Hoyer, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Univ. of California, San Francisco	Hoyer
2006	Matthias Hundt, M.D., Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	La Jolla Inst. for Allergy and Immunology	Hundt
2006	Jennifer Kanter	Ph.D. Candidate	Stanford Univ.	Kanter
2006	Lisa K. McNeil, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Univ. of Minnesota	McNeil
2006	Stephen N. Waggoner	Graduate Student	Univ. of Virginia	Waggoner
2005	Laurie E. Harrington, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Scholar Trainee	Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham	Harrington
2005	Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Oregon Hlth. and Sci. Univ.	Messaoudi
2005	Joshua J.Obar	Graduate Student	Dartmouth Col.	Obar
2005	Robin Stephens, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Scientist	Natl. Inst. for Med. Res., England	Stephens
2005	Hubert B.Tsui	Graduate Student	Univ. of Toronto	Tsui
2005	Vaiva Vezys, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Emory Univ.	Vezys
2004	Sherry R. Crowe, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Trudeau Inst.	Crowe
2004	Dorian McGavern, Ph.D.	Research Associate	Scripps Res. Inst.	McGavern
2004	Jennifer J. McIntire, Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med.	McIntire
2004	Booki Min, D.V.M., Ph.D.	Research Fellow	NIAID, NIH	Min
2004	Yoshihiko Tanaka, M.D., Ph.D.	Postdoctoral Fellow	La Jolla Inst. for Allergy and Immunology	Tanaka
2004	Colby Zaph	Graduate Student	Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Vet. Med.	Zaph
2003	Claudia Kemper, Ph.D.		Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. in St. Louis	Kemper
2003	Kamal Mohan Khanna		Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.	Khanna
2003	Kevin L. Legge, Ph.D.		Univ. of Virginia	Legge
2003	Michael F. Princiotta, Ph.D.		NIAID, NIH	Princiotta
2003	Daniel B. Stetson, Ph.D.		Univ. of California, San Francisco	Stetson
2003	Angela L. Zarling, Ph.D.		Univ. of Virginia	Zarling
2002	Lance Berg, Ph.D.		Univ. of Texas Southwest Med. Ctr.	Berg
2002	Harnisha Dalwadi		Univ. of California, Los Angeles	Dalwadi
2002	Meredith S. Gregory, Ph.D.		Schepens Eye Res. Inst.	Gregory
2002	Jennifer R. Kraft, Ph.D.		Univ. of Georgia	Kraft
2002	David Masopust		Univ. of Connecticut	Masopust
2002	David W. Mullins, Ph.D.		Univ. of Virginia	Mullins
2001	Adelheid Cerwenka, Ph.D.		Univ. of California, San Francisco	Cerwenka
2001	Keri L. Csencsits		Montana State Univ.	Csencsits
2001	Jessica L. Dunne		Univ. of Virginia	Dunne
2001	Rebecca J. Greenwald, Ph.D.		Brigham and Women's Hosp.	Greenwald
2001	Robin L. Jump		Case Western Reserve Univ.	Jump
2001	Margaret G. Petroff, Ph.D.		Univ. of Kansas Med. Ctr.	Petroff
2000	Xin Dong, Ph.D.		Univ. of Pittsburgh	Dong
2000	Adam Elhofy		Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte	Elhofy
2000	Todd A. Fehniger		Ohio State Univ.	Fehniger
2000	Huub Kreuwel		Scripps Res. Inst.	Kreuwel
2000	Viktor Lakics, Ph.D.		Uniformed Serv. Univ. of the Hlth. Sci.	Lakics
1999	Jennifer L. Gommerman, Ph.D.		Harvard Univ.	Gommerman
1999	Hui-Chen Hsu, Ph.D.		Univ. of Alabama	Hsu
1999	Teresa René Johnson		Vanderbilt Univ.	Johnson
1999	Diana L. Martin		Case Western Reserve Univ.	Martin
1999	Richard M. Wardrop III		Ohio State Univ.	Wardrop

AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award Past Recipients

1999–2022 Awardees

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