Career Awards

AAI Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022)

Award Recipient

Arlene H. Sharpe
Harvard Med. Sch.

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky will introduce the awardee and present the award prior to the start of the President's Address.

The AAI Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by the AAI Council upon an AAI member. This award recognizes a deserving member for a career of scientific achievement and for contributions to AAI and fellow immunologists.

Distinguished Fellows of AAI Class of 2022 Acknowledgment

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022)

The Distinguished Fellows of AAI annually recognizes members for distinguished careers and outstanding scientific contributions as well as their service to AAI and the immunology community. It honors active, long-term members (25 or more years) who have demonstrated one or more of the following: excellence in research accomplishment in the field of immunology; exceptional leadership to the immunology community in academia, foundations, nonprofits, industry, or government at a national or international level; notable distinction as an educator.

Meet the Distinguished Fellows of AAI Class of 2022.

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky will acknowledge the honorees prior to the start of the President's Address.

AAI Distinguished Service Award Presentations

Chair

• M. Michele Hogan, AAI

Award Recipients

AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will introduce the awardees and present the awards during the AAI Business Meeting.

The AAI Distinguished Service Awards recognize individuals for outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community.

AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture

Generously supported by BD Biosciences

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022)

Award Recipient

Andrea Schietinger
Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
T cell differentiation and fate choice in cancer and autoimmunity

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky and Robert Balderas, Vice President of Biological Sci., BD Biosciences, will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Schietinger’s lecture.

The AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award 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

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022)

Award Recipient

Christopher C. Goodnow
Garvan Inst. of Med. Res., Australia
Autoantibody control: a conceptual journey from B cell functional silencing to immune tolerance checkpoints

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky, AAI Vice President Mark M. Davis, HHMI, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., and Leonore A. Herzenberg, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Goodnow’s lecture.

The AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology in the area of B cell biology.

AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award Presentation and Lecture

Generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific

and the

2022 Distinguished Lecture

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022) 

Award Recipient

Katherine A. Fitzgerald
Univ. of Massachusetts Chan Med. Sch.
Regulation, initiation, and resolution of inflammation

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky and David Piper, Senior Director of Research and Development (Protein and Cell Analysis), Thermo Fisher Scientific, will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Fitzgerald’s lecture.

The AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology.

AAI Vanguard Lecture

Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee

Chair 

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

Speaker 

Cherié L. Butts
Biogen
Concept to approved drug: why immunologists are critical when developing new medicines

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

AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award Presentation

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022) 

Award Recipient

Ruslan Medzhitov
HHMI, Yale Univ. Sch. of Med. 

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky and Gregory M. Barton, Univ. of California, Berkeley, will introduce the awardee and present the award prior to the start of the President’s Symposium.

The AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award recognizes exemplary career contributions to a future generation of scientists. 

AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture

Chair

• Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI President (2021–2022) 

Award Recipient

Jeffrey A. Bluestone
Univ. of California, San Francisco, and Sonoma Biotherapeutics 
Immune tolerance: the long road to finding the holy grail

AAI President Gary A. Koretzky will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Bluestone’s lecture.

The AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the understanding of immune processes underlying human disease pathogenesis, prevention, or therapy.