Important Dates
Travel Award Applications Open
Nov 2, 2021
Travel Award Applications Close
Dec 20, 2021
AAI Travel Awards and Grants
AAI Travel Awards and Grants recognize the promise and bolster the professional development of investigators of all career stages by assisting them with travel to the AAI annual meeting.
AAI Travel Award Recipients
Saturday, May 7, 2022 1:00 PM Room B110–112
Pfizer-Showell Travel 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
Henrique Borges da Silva, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mayo Clin. Arizona
AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.
Saturday, May 7, 2022 1:00 PM Room B110–112
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
Haitao Wen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Ohio State Univ.
AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.
Saturday, May 7, 2022 1:00 PM Room B110–112
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
Emily M. Eshleman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr.
AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.
Saturday, May 7, 2022 1:00 PM Room B110–112
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
Hazem E. Ghoneim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State Univ. Col. of Med.
AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardee during the AAI Business Meeting.
Saturday, May 7, 2022 1:00 PM Room B110–112
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
- Heather L. Caslin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Univ.
- Jing Li, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Univ.
- Jorge F. Ortiz-Carpena, Graduate Student, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Nataliya Prokhnevska, Graduate Student, Emory Univ.
- Daniel F. Zegarra Ruiz, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
- Zinan Zhang, Graduate Student, Harvard Med. Sch.
AAI CEO M. Michele Hogan will acknowledge the awardees during the AAI Business Meeting.
AAI LABORATORY
TRAVEL GRANT
AAI is supporting travel grants to 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 travel awards 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.
AAI TRAINEE
POSTER AWARD
This award provides travel support to AAI trainee members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose first author abstracts submitted to the AAI annual meeting are selected for poster sessions only and found to be exceptional by the AAI Abstract Programming Chairs. Selection will be based on the originality and significance of the research being presented.
AAI UNDERGRADUATE
FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT
AAI is supporting travel grants to undergraduate faculty to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting. The grant will also support travel costs for an undergraduate student of the recipient’s selection.
AAI TRAINEE
ABSTRACT AWARD
This award provides travel 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.
AAI EARLY CAREER
FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT
AAI is supporting travel grants to young investigators (assistant professor or equivalent) to assist them in attending the AAI annual meeting.
AAI MINORITY SCIENTIST
TRAVEL AWARD
This award provides travel support to eligible underrepresented minority (URM) scientists, including trainees and early-career faculty members.
Questions about the application process? Please contact the AAI offices at awards@aai.org, or (301) 634-7178.
AAI will work with government employees to meet government requirements regarding receipt of awards. For more information, contact awards@aai.org.
