AAI Business Meeting & Awards Presentations
At this session, AAI will report on the “state of the association” to its members. Selected 2016 AAI awards will also be presented during this session.
Members will hear from the Executive Director, the Secretary-Treasurer, the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Immunology (The JI), and the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs as they report on the financial standing of AAI, the status of The JI, important public policy issues, and other items of interest for the membership.
AAI annually provides more than 800 AAI meeting Travel Awards and Grants to recognize the promise and bolster the professional development of investigators of all career stages, including underrepresented scientists and trainees. Award and grant presentations and acknowledgments will include:
Presentations
AAI Distinguished Service Award
For outstanding service to AAI as Secretary –Treasurer, Council member and Chair of the AAI Finance Committee, 2009-2015
Mitch Kronenberg, Ph.D., La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Pfizer-Showell Travel Award
To recognize the professional promise of an early-career investigator
Li-Fan Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
Lustgarten-eBioscience Memorial Award
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
Margaret S. Bynoe, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cornell University
Chambers-eBioscience Memorial Award
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
Vinit Kumar, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, The Wistar Institute
Lefrancois-BioLegend Memorial Award
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
Michael G. Constantinides, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, NIAID, NIH
AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Awards
To recognize promising trainees in the field of immunology
- Timotheus Y.F. Halim, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Emma L. Kuan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Benaroya Research Institute
- Si Ming Man, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Timothy E. O’Sullivan, Ph.D., Research Scholar, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Xiaodi Wu, Graduate Student, Washington University School of Medicine
- Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
Acknowledgments
- AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grants
- AAI Laboratory Travel Grants
Supported in part by BD Biosciences - FASEB MARC Poster/Platform (Oral) Presenter Travel Awards
Sponsored by FASEB MARC Program under a grant from NIGMS, NIH
[FASEB MARC Program: T36-GM08059-32 NCE] - AAI Undergraduate Faculty Travel Grants
- AAI Trainee Abstract Awards
- AAI Trainee Poster Awards