Aviv Regev, Ph.D. (AAI ’19) is the 2020 recipient of the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, honoring her roles in laying the groundwork for the field of single-cell genomics, spearheading leading-edge technologies that enable a sharper perspective on human cells, and applying these tools to revolutionize understanding of biology and disease.

K. Mark Ansel, Ph.D. (AAI ’08), and Shruti Naik, Ph.D. (AAI ’20), are among this year’s doctoral adviser–graduate student tandems selected to receive HHMI Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study, which foster the development of scientific leaders committed to advancing diversity and inclusion in the sciences.

AAI Science Coordinator Ellen C. Fox, Ph.D. (AAI ’16), is among recipients of Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellowships for 2020, which recognize awardees’ high level of engagement in their fields and diversity of skills in scholarly communications.

Kate A. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. (AAI ’06), has been admitted to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic distinction in Ireland, as an honorary member. Honorary membership is reserved for academics residing outside of Ireland who have made major international contributions to their disciplines. She is also one of 12 scientists selected to receive Harrington Scholar Awards; the COVID-19 rapid response initiative awards provide recipients with grant funding and expert drug development support to advance novel therapies, next-generation vaccines, and vaccine alternatives to fight COVID-19 and avert future pandemics.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. (AAI ’73), is the recipient of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Public Service Award, for his decades of outstanding leadership in basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat daunting infectious diseases.

Douglas R. Green, Ph.D. (AAI ’84), former AAI president Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. (AAI ’88), Carl H. June, M.D. (AAI ’87), Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’19), and Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’19), have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’90), is the recipient of the 2020 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in honor of his pioneering discoveries of regulatory T cells and their instrumental role in self-tolerance.

Sarah L. Gaffen, Ph.D. (AAI ’00), and Vijay K, Kuchroo, D.V.M., Ph.D. (AAI ’86), are co-recipients of the 2020 ICIS-BioLegend William E. Paul Award, in recognition of their combined contributions deciphering the role of a key cytokine, IL-17, in health and disease.

Warren J. Leonard, M.D. (AAI ’86), has been selected to receive the 2020 Seymour and Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research for his groundbreaking contributions to research on the basic biology and translational aspects of cytokine signaling.

Carl Nathan, M.D. (AAI ’76) receives the 2019 Sanofi – Institut Pasteur Senior International Scientist Award for Biomedical Research in Microbiology and Infection.

Thomas F. Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’96) is awarded the 2019 ESMO Immuno-Oncology Award for his groundbreaking work uncovering why some are resistant to immunotherapy and how to restore the anti-cancer immune response.

Hannes Stockinger, Ph.D. (AAI ’96) is awarded the Karl Landsteiner Medal by the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology, for his service to the field of immunology.

Former AAI president (2012-2013) Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D. (AAI ’84) is named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in recognition of her distinguished contributions to the field of immunology, particularly for insights into regulation of T and B lymphocyte activation.

Jennifer Martinez, Ph.D. (AAI ’17) receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding early-career scientists who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.

David W. Scott, Ph.D. (AAI ’73) receives National Hemophilia Foundation honors as Murray Thelin Researcher of the Year.

Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’00) is named to lead the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

David Masopust, Ph.D. (AAI ’07) has been honored with the University of Minnesota Center for Immunology’s 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Research Lectureship.

Ingunn M. Stromnes, Ph.D. (AAI ’18) is awarded the 2019 Julia Stagliano Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Catalyst Grant.

George Fu Gao, Ph.D. (AAI ’07), Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI ’00), Elizabeth M. Jaffee, M.D. (AAI ’97), Michael J. Lenardo, M.D. (AAI ’93), Gabriel Nuñez, M.D. (AAI ’85), and David G. Schatz, Ph.D. (AAI ’97) have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Noel R. Rose, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’56) and his mentor and colleague, the late Dr. Ernest Witebsky, are 2019 recipients of the Golden Goose Award for their research that illuminated a new concept of autoimmunity and established the concept of autoimmune disease.

Michel DuPage, Ph.D. (AAI ’18) and Noah Wolcott Palm, Ph.D. (AAI ’17) are NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipients for 2019.

Shane Crotty, Ph.D. (AAI ’04) is the 2019 recipient of the Frederick W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology.

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, M.D. (AAI ’97), Lawrence E. Samelson, M.D. (AAI ’84), Brian Seed, Ph.D. (AAI ’98), and former AAI president (2008-2009) Arthur Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’81) are 2019 William Coley Award honorees.

Past AAI president (2017-2018) Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D. (AAI ’71) is appointed inaugural director of new Division of Physician-Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Cherié L. Butts, Ph.D. (AAI ’10) receives governor’s appointment to the Massachusetts Economic Development Planning Council.

Former AAI president (1988-1989) Max D. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’66) and Jacques Miller, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’68) have received the 2019 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

Past AAI president (1994-1995) Irving L. Weissman, M.D. (AAI ’71) has been named a 2019 recipient of the Albany Prize.

Peter A. John (AAI Tr. ’18) is among 2019 Lasker Foundation Essay Contest winners.

Pablo Engel, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’05), Winfried F. Pickl, M.D. (AAI ’08), and Federica Sallusto, D.Sc. (AAI ’14) are elected officers of the European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS) Board for the 2019-2021 term.

Carl F. Nathan, M.D. (AAI ’76) has received the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award.

Susan Carpenter, Ph.D. (AAI ’15), Sunny Shin (AAI ’12), and doctoral candidate Brea K. Hampton, (AAI Tr. ’18) are recipients of HHMI Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study.

Michael Schnoor, Ph.D. (AAI ’12) receives the Society for Leukocyte Biology’s 2019 Dolph O. Adams Award.

Murad R. Mamadov, Ph.D. (AAI ’18) is a 2019 Michelson Prize recipient.

Past AAI president (1998-1999) Jonathan Sprent, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’80) receives the Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery & Immunology.

Aviv Regev, Ph.D. (AAI ’19) has been named a 2020 FASEB Excellence in Science Awards honoree.

Louis Justement, Ph.D. (AAI ’91) has been named president-elect of FASEB.

Hao Wu, Ph.D. (AAI ’13) was named by The Protein Society as recipient of the 2019 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award.

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI ’13) and Hao Wu, Ph.D. (AAI ’13) have been selected as 2019 recipients of the Seymour and Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research.

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. (AAI ’13) is the recipient of the 2019 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences.

Marco Colonna, M.D., (AAI ’02), Adolfo García-Sastre, Ph.D., (AAI ’14), Michael J. Lenardo, M.D., (AAI ’93), David H. Raulet, Ph.D., (AAI ’84), and Aviv Regev, Ph.D., (AAI ’19) are elected as members, and George F. Gao, Ph.D., (AAI ’07) as a foreign associate, of the National Academy of Sciences.

Past AAI president (2011-12) Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D. (AAI ’94) has been appointed as chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Current AAI president JoAnne L. Flynn, Ph.D. (AAI '96) has received the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s 2019 Distinguished Research Award.

Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D. (AAI ’95) is appointed chair of the Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity at the Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Kristin A. Hogquist, Ph.D. (AAI ’95) is appointed the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Vice Chair for Research at the University of Minnesota.

Bruce Glick, Ph.D. (AAI ’70) (d. 2/1/09) is honored posthumously as recipient of a 2018 Golden Goose Award for his bursa of Fabricius research.

Stanley Cohen, M.D. (AAI ’70) receives a 2018 Golden Goose Award for his work on cytokines.

Stephen P. Schoenberger, Ph.D. (AAI ’05), Bjorn Peters, Ph.D. (AAI ’07), and Anjana Rao, Ph.D. (AAI ’90) are among collaborators on a La Jolla Institute and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center research effort that has received a $4.5 million Cancer Moon Shot Award.

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. (AAI ’13), Richard S. Blumberg, M.D. (AAI ’93), Michael A. Caligiuri, M.D. (AAI ’97), Michael S. Diamond, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’07), David A. Hafler, M.D. (AAI ’84), Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’95), and past AAI president (2016-17) Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’96) are elected members of the National Academy of Medicine.

Past AAI president (2001-02) James P. Allison, Ph.D. (AAI '78) and Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '88) are awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’13) is the 2018 recipient of the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology.

Boris Reizis, Ph.D. (AAI ’16), is the 2018 recipient of the Frederick W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology.

Cherié L. Butts, Ph.D., (AAI ’10), is elected to the Society for Leukocyte Biology Council and named to the Salem State University Board of Trustees.

Mark S. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., (AAI ’04), Karl Mark Ansel, Ph.D., (AAI ’08), Jason G. Cyster, Ph.D., (AAI ’97), Adrian Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D., (AAI ’05), Matthew F. Krummel, Ph.D., (AAI ’02), and Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., (AAI ’07) are among the leaders of the newly-launched Immuno-X Initiative at UCSF.

Past AAI president (2001-02) James P. Allison, Ph.D., (AAI '78), Carl H. June, M.D., (AAI '87), and Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., (AAI '72), are awarded the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.

Past AAI president (2009-10) Betty Diamond, M.D. (AAI ’80), is the recipient of the 2018 Lupus Insight Prize.

Ann Griffith, Ph.D. (AAI ’12), and Sergio Cepeda (AAI Tr. ’16), are selected as HHMI Gilliam Fellowships Program grant recipients.

John R. Lukens, Ph.D. (AAI ’15) had his publication from The Journal of Immunology, reporting the role of the maternal microbiome in autism, featured in Newsweek.

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’99) has been selected to receive the 2018 Robert Koch Award in recognition of his groundbreaking work analyzing antibody response.

Philip D. Greenberg, M.D. (AAI ’82) is the recipient of the 2018 Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award and Lectureship.

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI ’00), Dennis L. Kasper, M.D. (AAI ’75), Dr. Michael Reth (AAI Hon. ’08), David D. Schatz, Ph.D. (AAI ’97), and past AAI president (2016-17) Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’96) are among 2018 electees as members/foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.

Past AAI president (1988-89) Max D. Cooper, M.D. (AAI '66) and Jacques F. A. P. Miller, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI Hon. '68) are 2018 Japan Prize co-recipients.

Alexander Y. Rudensky, Ph.D. (AAI ’94) is the recipient of the 2018 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.

Avery August, Ph.D. (AAI ’99) has been appointed Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Cornell University.

Shannon J. Turley, Ph.D. (AAI '05) is the recipient of the 2017 Frederick W. Alt Award.

Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. (AAI '84) and Thomas F. Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '96) are 2017 recipients of William B. Coley Awards.

Gabriel D. Victora, Ph.D. (AAI ’15) has been named a 2017 MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant recipient.

Richard J. Hodes, Ph.D. (AAI '75) is the recipient of the second annual Charles A. Sanders, M.D., Partnership Award.

Past AAI president (2001-02) James P. Allison, Ph.D. (AAI '78) and Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D. (AAI '76) are 2017 Balzan Prize recipients for Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy

Susan Carpenter, Ph.D. (AAI '15), Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D. (AAI '90), Kiyoshi Hirahara, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '12), Ari B. Molofsky, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '16), E. Ashley Moseman, Ph.D. (AAI '16), Ganes C. Sen, Ph.D. (AAI '05), and Alan Sher, Ph.D. (AAI '77) are 2017 recipients of International Cytokine & Interferon Society Award honors.

Past AAI president (2001-02) James P. Allison, Ph.D. (AAI '78), Lieping Chen, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '92), Gordon J. Freeman, Ph.D. (AAI '01), Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI Hon. '88), and past AAI president (2016-2017) Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '96) are  2017 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize recipients for transformative discoveries in the field of cancer immunology.

Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. (AAI '84) and Antonio Lanzavecchia, M.D. (AAI Hon. '00) are 2017 Robert Koch Award recipients for pioneering research on immune system regulation and ground-breaking contributions to the development of new vaccines and immunotherapies.

Leroy E. Hood, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '69) is the 2017 NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society recipient.

Bernard Roizman, Sd.D. (AAI '59) is the 2017 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology recipient

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. (AAI '13), Richard M. Locksley, M.D. (AAI '88), and Jonathan Sprent, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '80) are elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Past AAI president (2001-02) James P. Allison, Ph.D. (AAI '78), Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '98), and Paul Rothman, M.D. (AAI '92) are elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. (AAI '13) is the recipient of the 2017 Emil von Behring Prize and the 2016 Sanofi–Institut Pasteur International Mid-Career Award.

Past AAI president (2007-08) Olivera (Olja) J. Finn, Ph.D. (AAI ’83) is the recipient of the 2017 AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology.

AAI members invited to participate in honoring Frank Fitch (AAI ’61) through endowed Frank W. and Shirley Fitch Lectureship.

Past AAI president (2001-02) James P. Allison, Ph.D. (AAI ’78) is named co-recipient of the first Sjöberg Prize in cancer research.

Alexander Y. Rudensky, Ph.D. (AAI ’94) and Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’90) are co-recipients of the 2017 Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis.

David E. Briles, Ph.D. (AAI ’77), David A. Fruman, Ph.D. (AAI ’01), George Fu Gao, Ph.D. (AAI ’01), Joseph Bernard Margolick, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’87), Michael S. Marks, Ph.D. (AAI ’90), James C. Paulson, Ph.D. (AAI ’07), Liise-Anne Pirofski, M.D. (AAI ’00), David T. Scadden, M.D. (AAI ’98), Phillip A. Scott, Ph.D. (AAI ’84), and Lawrence Steinman, M.D. (AAI ’89) are elected as AAAS Fellows.

Ken Cadwell, Ph.D. (AAI '16), Ming Li, Ph.D. (AAI '10), David Masopust, Ph.D. (AAI '07), Carla V. Rothlin, Ph.D. (AAI '08), Daniel B. Stetson, Ph.D. (AAI '09), and Sing Sing Y. Way, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '07) are named HHMI, Simons Foundation, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Faculty Scholars.

Cherié L. Butts, Ph.D. (AAI ’01) has been appointed to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Board of Overseers, and will serve on its Research Oversight Committee.

Carl F. Nathan, M.D. (AAI ' 76), John J. O'Shea, M.D. )AAI '84), and Jan T. Vilcek, M.D. )AAI '78) are joint recipients of the 2016 ICIS-Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research.

Richard M. Locksley, M.D. (AAI '88) is the inaugural recipient of ICIS-BioLegend William Paul Award.

Howard A. Young, Ph.D. (AAI '90) is the 2016 recipient of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society's Honorary Lifetime Membership Award.

Past AAI president (2003-04) Laurie A. Glimcher, M.D. (AAI '83) is the 2016 Marion Spencer Fay Award honoree.

Carl H. June, M.D. (AAI '87), John W. Kappler, Ph.D. (AAI '74), past AAI president (2000-2001) Philippa Marrack, Ph.D. (AAI '74), Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '72), and Harald von Boehmer, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '92) are recipients of 2016 Novartis Prizes for Immunology.

AAI Past President Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '87) is the recipient of the 2016 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology.

Ton Schumacher, Ph.D. (AAI '15) is the recipient of the 2016 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology.

E. John Wherry, Ph.D. (AAI '05) is the recipient of the Frederick W. Alt Award for New Discoveries in Immunology.

Alberto Mantovani, M.D. (AAI '03) and Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '91) have been named recipients of the 2016 Robert Koch Award.

Clinician scientists Suzanne Topalian, M.D. (AAI '90) and Jedd D. Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '12) are 2016 Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science honorees.

Diane Mathis, Ph.D. (AAI '99) has been selected to receive the 2017 FASEB Excellence in Science Award.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. (AAI '73) receives the 2016 Gairdner Global Health Award.

Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D. (AAI '01) is the 2016 Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine recipient.

Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI Hon. '88) is the 2016 recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Life Sciences.

Arup K. Chakraborty, Ph.D. (AAI '07), Ronald N. Germain, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '78), Antonio Lanzavecchia, M.D. (AAI Hon. '00), Kenneth M. Murphy, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '95), Hidde L. Ploegh, Ph.D. (AAI '93), Herbert W. Virgin, IV, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '92), Gabriel A. Rabinovich, Ph.D. (AAI '03), and Ian A. Wilson, D. Sc., Ph.D. (AAI '14) have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.