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| Year ▲ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2020 | Nazihah Husna Abdul Aziz | Singapore Immunology Network |
| 2020 | Brittney Allyn | Univ. of Pennsylvania Perelman Sch. of Med. |
| 2020 | Cassandra Almasri | NIAID, NIH |
| 2020 | Katayoun Ayasoufi, Ph.D. | Mayo Clin. |
| 2020 | Tarani Kanta Barman, D.V.M., Ph.D. | Albany Med. Col. |
| 2020 | Jacquelyn Renee Bedsaul | Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2020 | Jenna M. Canfield | Univ. of Missouri |
| 2020 | James Brett Case, Ph.D. | Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2020 | Hyoung-Soo Cho, Ph.D. | Harvard Med. Sch. |
| 2020 | Justin Choe | Mayo Clin. Grad. Sch. of Biomed. Sci. |
| 2020 | Jinyong Choi, Ph.D. | La Jolla Inst. for Immunology |
| 2020 | Jacky Louis Chow, Ph.D. | Roswell Park Cancer Inst. |
| 2020 | Douglas Chung | Princess Margaret Hosp., Univ. of Toronto, Canada |
| 2020 | Kali F. Crofts | Wake Forest Univ. Grad. Sch. |
| 2020 | Luz Milbeth Cumba Garcia | Mayo Clin. Grad. Sch. of Biomed. Sci. |
| 2020 | Kristin T. Dean | Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Tyler |
| 2020 | Jenna M. DeLuca | Miami Univ. |
| 2020 | Priscilla Do, Ph.D. | Georgia Inst. of Tech., Emory Univ. |
| 2020 | Pranay Dogra, Ph.D. | Columbia Univ. Med. Ctr. |
| 2020 | Yi Dong, Ph.D. | Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med. |
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| Year ▲ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2019 | Munir Akkaya, M.D., Ph.D. | NIAID, NIH |
| 2019 | Jessie M. Barra | Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham |
| 2019 | Hampartsoum B. Barsoumian, Ph.D. | Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr. |
| 2019 | Anthony James Bilotta, II | Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston |
| 2019 | So Jin Bing, D.V.M., Ph.D. | NEI, NIH |
| 2019 | Julie G. Burel, Ph.D. | La Jolla Inst. for Immunology |
| 2019 | Henry Carnes, IV | Edward Via Col. of Osteopathic Med. |
| 2019 | Karthik Chandiran, Ph.D. | Univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. |
| 2019 | Jie Cheng | Georgetown Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2019 | Eun-Jin Choi, Ph.D. | Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston |
| 2019 | Kuan Lun Chu | Univ. of Toronto, Canada |
| 2019 | Meredith Crane, Ph.D. | Brown Univ. |
| 2019 | Ricardo Filipe da Silva Antunes, Ph.D. | La Jolla Inst. for Immunology |
| 2019 | Arundhoti Das, Ph.D. | NCI, NIH |
| 2019 | Tianda Deng | Univ. of California, San Diego |
| 2019 | Priyadharshini Devarajan, Ph.D. | Univ. of Massachusetts Med. Sch. |
| 2019 | Christa Innae DeVette, Ph.D. | Univ. of Oklahoma Hlth. Sci. Ctr. |
| 2019 | Cordelia Dunai | Univ. of California, Davis |
| 2019 | Gaelen K. Dwyer | Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med. |
| 2019 | Kow Essuman | Washington Univ. Sch. of Med. in St. Louis |
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| Year ▲ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2018 | Ajay Suresh Akhade, Ph.D. | Inst. for Systems Biol. |
| 2018 | Greer K. Arthur, Ph.D. | North Carolina State Univ. |
| 2018 | Nicholas Griffin Battaglia | Univ. of Rochester Sch. of Med. and Dent. |
| 2018 | Mireya Becerra-Diaz, Ph.D. | Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2018 | Maura C. Belanger | Univ. of Virginia |
| 2018 | Brinda Bhatt | Georgia Regents Univ. |
| 2018 | Laura Elizabeth Blackmon | Univ. of Mississippi Med. Ctr. |
| 2018 | Breanna Laine Breaux | Texas A&M Univ. |
| 2018 | Sergio Cepeda | Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., San Antonio |
| 2018 | Shelby L. Cole | Univ. of Montana |
| 2018 | Anna Vladimirovna Demina, M.D., Ph.D. | Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel |
| 2018 | Ying Ding, Ph.D. | Univ. of Miami Miller Sch. of Med. |
| 2018 | Xuexiang Du, Ph.D. | Children's Natl. Med. Ctr. |
| 2018 | Colm R. Duffy | Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr. |
| 2018 | Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D. | Univ. of California, San Francisco |
| 2018 | Adolfo B. Frias, Jr. | Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med. |
| 2018 | David J. Friedman | Mayo Grad. Sch. |
| 2018 | Yuanyuan Gao, Ph.D. | NCI, NIH |
| 2018 | Joshua W. Garton | Univ. of Oklahoma |
| 2018 | Jaqueline S. Generoso, Ph.D. | Univ. do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Brazil |
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| Year ▲ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2017 | Ahmed Mansour Abdelaal | Georgia State Univ. |
| 2017 | Joselyn Natasha Allen | Pennsylvania State Univ. |
| 2017 | Carlos A. Alvarez | Case Western Reserve Univ. |
| 2017 | Abhinav Arneja, Ph.D. | Univ. of Virginia |
| 2017 | Mariam Bakshi | Texas A&M Univ. |
| 2017 | Amritha Balakrishnan | Univ. of California, San Diego |
| 2017 | Ishita Banerjee | Univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. |
| 2017 | William J. Becker | Univ. of South Carolina Sch. of Med. |
| 2017 | Maura C. Belanger | Univ. of Virginia |
| 2017 | Bryan Lauck Benson | Case Western Reserve Univ. |
| 2017 | Julia D. Berkson | Univ. of Washington |
| 2017 | Catherine Ami Bessell | Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2017 | Shannon Kathryn Boi | Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham |
| 2017 | Janie Rae Byrum | Univ. of New Mexico Sch. of Med. |
| 2017 | Sergio Cepeda | Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., San Antonio |
| 2017 | Guobing Chen, Ph.D. | NIA, NIH |
| 2017 | Chia-Ying Cheng | Natl. Cheng Kung Univ. |
| 2017 | Diptadip Dattaroy | Univ. of South Carolina |
| 2017 | Brittney A. Dinkel | Mayo Grad. Sch. |
| 2017 | Mengqi Dong | Univ. of Montreal |
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| Year ▲ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2016 | Daniel Abebayehu | Virginia Commonwealth Univ. |
| 2016 | Alaa Ali | Univ. of Ottawa |
| 2016 | Gunjan Arora, Ph.D. | NIAID, NIH |
| 2016 | Mariam Bakshi | Texas A&M Univ. |
| 2016 | Mark A. Barnes, Jr., Ph.D. | Univ. of California, Riverside |
| 2016 | Mireya Becerra-Diaz, Ph.D. | Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2016 | David F. Boyd, Ph.D. | St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp. |
| 2016 | Stephanie L. Brandt | Indiana Univ. Sch. of Med. |
| 2016 | Claire M. Buchta | Univ. of Virginia |
| 2016 | Thomas Burn | Perelman Sch. of Med., Univ. of Pennsylvania |
| 2016 | Samantha Chalmers | Albert Einstein Col. of Med. |
| 2016 | Krishan D. Chhiba | Feinberg Sch. of Med., Northwestern Univ. |
| 2016 | Kibaek Choe | Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. and Technol. |
| 2016 | William E. Coyne, M.S. | Chatham Univ. |
| 2016 | Sudipta Das, Ph.D. | Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med. |
| 2016 | Jared L. Delahaye | Ctr. for Infectious Dis. Res. |
| 2016 | Adwitia Dey | Pennsylvania State Univ. |
| 2016 | Skyla Duncan | Alabama State Univ. |
| 2016 | Allison Ehrlich, Ph.D. | Oregon State Univ. |
| 2016 | Yanjun Feng | Emory Univ. |
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| Year ▲ | Recipient | Institution |
| 2015 | Nandini Acharya | Univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. |
| 2015 | Sreya Bagchi | Northwestern Univ. |
| 2015 | Rocio Banos-Lara, Ph.D. | Louisiana State Univ. |
| 2015 | Craig M. Brackett, Ph.D. | Roswell Park Cancer Inst. |
| 2015 | Sadna Budhu, Ph.D. | Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr. |
| 2015 | Silvia G. Caballero | Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr. |
| 2015 | Matthew Calverley, Ph.D. | St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp. |
| 2015 | Christina Chang | Salk Inst. for Biological Studies |
| 2015 | Fei Chen, M.D. | Rutgers New Jersey Med. Sch. |
| 2015 | Guobing Chen, Ph.D. | NIA, NIH |
| 2015 | Siqi Chen | Northwestern Univ. |
| 2015 | Yu Chen, M.D., Ph.D. | Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston |
| 2015 | Elizabeth E. Cheney | Univ. of Colorado, Denver |
| 2015 | Cansu Cimen Bozkus | Purdue Univ. |
| 2015 | Kimberly Mae Cirelli | Massachusetts Inst. of Technol. |
| 2015 | Elisa Cruz Morales, Ph.D. | Massachusetts Gen. Hosp. |
| 2015 | Priyadharshini Devarajan, Ph.D. | Univ. of Massachusetts Med. Sch. |
| 2015 | Nicola Diny | Johns Hopkins Univ. |
| 2015 | Jessica L. Doerner | Albert Einstein Col. of Med. |
| 2015 | Marc Douaisi, Ph.D | Renselaer Polytechnic Inst. |
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