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Virtual IMMUNOLOGY2021™

May 10 - 15, 2021

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AAI Meeting Awards

AAI Meeting Awards and Grants recognize the promise and bolster the professional development of investigators of all career stages by assisting them with registration expenses for the AAI annual meeting.
 Thursday, May 13, 2021     5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET    
Pfizer-Showell Award

This award recognizes the professional promise of an early career investigator (assistant professor or equivalent) by assisting the award recipient with registration for the AAI annual meeting to present their research. This award is supported through an endowment from Henry J. Showell and Pfizer, Inc.

Award Recipient:

Monika Bambouskova, Ph.D.
Washington Univ. Sch. of Med.

AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.

 Thursday, May 13, 2021     5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET    
Lefrançois-BioLegend Memorial Award

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.

Award Recipient:

Jacob Van Winkle
Oregon Hlth. & Sci. Univ.

AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.

 Thursday, May 13, 2021     5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET    
Lustgarten-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Joseph Lustgarten, this award is intended to advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of immune regulation. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Award Recipient:

Venuprasad K. Poojary, Ph.D.
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.

AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.

 Thursday, May 13, 2021     5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET    
Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award

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.

Award Recipient:

Timotheus Y.F. Halim, Ph.D.
Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.

AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.

 Thursday, May 13, 2021     5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET    
AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Awards

This award recognizes up to six promising trainees in the field of immunology. Selection is based on career promise and presentation of an outstanding first-author abstract selected for a Block Symposium. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Award Recipients:

Adeleye O. Adeshakin
Graduate Student
Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

Elliot H. Akama-Garren
Graduate Student
Harvard Med. Sch.

Ian C. Boothby
Graduate Student
Univ. of California, San Francisco

Elizabeth S. Borden
Graduate Student
Univ. of Arizona Col. of Med.

Betsabel J. Chicana
Graduate Student
Univ. of California, Merced

Masato Ogishi, M.D.
Graduate Student
The Rockefeller Univ.

AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardees during the AAI Business Meeting.


AAI Laboratory Grant

Generously supported in part by BD Biosciences and Sony Biotechnology

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 complimentary meeting registrations at the member early rate 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.

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AAI Undergraduate Faculty Grant

Generously supported in part by BD Biosciences

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.

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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.

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AAI Early Career Faculty Grant

Generously supported in part by BD Biosciences and Sony Biotechnology

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

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AAI Minority Scientist Award

Generously supported in part by Allen Institute for Immunology, BD Biosciences, Science Immunology/AAAS, and Sony Biotechnology

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

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AAI Late-Breaking Poster Award

This award provides support to AAI Trainee members (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) whose late-breaking, first-author abstracts submitted to Virtual IMMUNOLOGY2021™ are found to be exceptional by the reviewers.

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Questions about the application process? Please contact the AAI offices at awards@aai.org, or (301) 634-7178.

AAI Memorial Awards

Lefrançois-BioLegend Award

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.

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Lustgarten-Thermo Fisher Scientific Award

Established to honor the memory of AAI Member Dr. Joseph Lustgarten, this award is intended to advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of immune regulation. This award is generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Award

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.

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