Career Awards

AAI Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

Presented prior to Dr. Ting's President’s Address

Award Recipient:

Marc K. Jenkins
Univ. of Minnesota

Recognizes a member for a career of extraordinary scientific achievement and exceptional leadership and service to AAI

AAI Distinguished Service Award Presentation

Presented at the Business Meeting

Chair:

• M. Michele Hogan, CEO, AAI

Award Recipient:

Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
Univ. of Toronto, and Sunnybrook Res. Inst., Canada
For outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community as director of the AAI Introductory Course in Immunology, 2014–2019

Recognizes a member for outstanding service to the AAI community

AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture

Generously supported by BD Biosciences

Chairs:

• Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AAI President (2020–2021)
• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Erika L. Pearce
Bloomberg-Kimmel Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Metabolic regulation of T cell function

Recognizes an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology

AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award Presentation and Lecture

Generously supported by BioLegend

Chairs:

• Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AAI President (2020–2021)
• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Susan K. Pierce
NIAID, NIH
Regulators and influencers of B cell affinity discrimination

Recognizes an individual who has made exemplary research contributions to the field of B cell biology

AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award Presentation and Lecture

Generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific

Chairs:

• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)
• Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AAI President (2020–2021)

Award Recipient:

Alexander Y. Rudensky
HHMI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr., Rockefeller Univ. and Weill Cornell Med.
The virtue of restraint in adaptive immunity

Recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology

AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award Presentation

Introducer:

• Randy Q. Cron, Children's Hosp. of Alabama

Award Recipient:

Jeffrey A. Bluestone
Univ. of California, San Francisco, and Sonoma Biotherapeutics

Recognizes a member for exemplary career contributions to a future generation of scientists

AAI Vanguard Lecture

Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee

Chairs:

• Tonya J. Webb, Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Med., AAI Minority Affairs Committee Chair
• Robert J. Binder, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Speaker:

De’Broski R. Herbert
Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Vet. Med.
IL-33 regulates the balance between inflammation and immunosuppression

Presented by an AAI member selected by the Minority Affairs Committee for their scientific achievement and exemplary career success

AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture

Chairs:

• Jenny P.-Y. Ting, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AAI President (2020–2021)
• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Michael J. Lenardo
NIAID, NIH
Identification of novel gene defects leads to precision therapies for congenital immune diseases

Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the understanding of immune processes underlying human disease pathogenesis, prevention, and therapies