Career Awards

AAI Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

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

Chair:

• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Marc K. Jenkins
Univ. of Minnesota Ctr. for Immunology

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

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

Chair:

• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

Award Recipient:

Erika L. Pearce
Max Planck Inst. of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany; Bloomberg-Kimmel Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins Univ. (as of January 1, 2021)
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

Chair:

• 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

Chair:

• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

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

Presented prior to Dr. Boss's President’s Symposium

Chair:

• Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President (2019–2020)

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-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture

Chair:

• 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