2023 AAI Travel Award Recipients

Alexandria Wells, Ph.D. (AAI ’22)
NIAID, NIH

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Leo Lefrançois, this award is intended to advance the career of a trainee who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of mucosal immunology.

This award is generously supported by BioLegend and donations from friends and colleagues of Dr. Lefrançois.

Sepideh Dolatshahi, Ph.D. (AAI ’21)
Univ. of Virginia Sch. of Med.

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Cynthia Chambers, this award is intended to advance the career of an early career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of cancer biology.

This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

AAI Laboratory Travel Grant

AAI is supporting meeting registration for mid-career and senior investigators (associate professor, full professor, or equivalent) to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting. These grants will provide up to two two complimentary meeting registrations per laboratory. The grant is awarded to the PI or laboratory director as one recipient, and they may select a second recipient from their laboratory.

AAI Trainee Poster Award

This award provides $300 to AAI Trainee members (undergraduate students, graduate students, young professionals, and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for poster sessions only and found to be exceptional by the AAI Abstract Programming Chairs.

AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grant

AAI is supporting meeting registration for undergraduate faculty to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting. The grant will also support registration for an undergraduate student of the recipient’s selection.

AAI Trainee Abstract Award

This award provides support to AAI Trainee members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first-author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for presentation in Block Symposia.

AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grant

AAI is supporting meeting registration for young investigators (assistant professor or equivalent) to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting.

AAI Minority Scientist Travel Award

This award provides meeting registration for eligible underrepresented minority (URM) scientists, including trainees and early-career faculty members.