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.

AAI Laboratory Grant

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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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.

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AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award

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.

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AAI Undergraduate Faculty Grant

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

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

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

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.