Award Presentations & Lectures
AAI is pleased to recognize the extraordinary professional achievements, service, and career promise of its members with the following awards and lectures.
Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Ballroom AB
11. AAI Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardee and present the award prior to the start of the President's Address.
Chair
- Mark M. Davis, HHMI, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President
Award Recipient
Lewis L. Lanier
Univ. of California, San Francisco
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.
Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Ballroom AB
11. Distinguished Fellows of AAI Class of 2023 Acknowledgment
AAI President Mark M. Davis will acknowledge the honorees prior to the start of the President's Address.
Chair
- Mark M. Davis, HHMI, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President
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.
Friday, May 12, 2023 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM Room 202B
12. AAI Distinguished Service Award Presentations
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardees and present the awards during the AAI Business Meeting.
Chair
- Loretta L. Doan, AAI Chief Executive Officer
Award Recipients
Cherié L. Butts
Biogen
For outstanding service as chair and member of the AAI Minority Affairs Committee, 2011–2017
Clifford V. Harding
Case Western Reserve Univ.
For outstanding service as chair and member of the AAI Committee on Public Affairs, 2009–2016
The AAI Distinguished Service Awards recognize individuals for outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community.
Friday, May 12, 2023 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Room 202A
44. AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award Presentation and Lecture
Generously supported by BioLegend
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Crotty’s lecture.
Chair
- Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI Past President
Award Recipient
Shane Crotty
La Jolla Inst. for Immunology
Long-lived and high-quality antibody and memory B cell responses regulated by Tfh cells and germinal centers
The AAI-BioLegend Herzenberg Award recognizes outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology in the area of B cell biology.
Friday, May 12, 2023 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Ballroom A
55. FASEB Excellence in Science Early-Career Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture
Dr. Garvy will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Krishnaswamy’s lecture.
Chair
- Beth A. Garvy, Univ. of Kentucky Col. of Med., FASEB Vice President for Science Policy
Award Recipient
Smita Krishnaswamy
Yale Univ.
Deep geometric and topological analyses characterizing and predicting immune responses
The FASEB Excellence in Science Early-Career Investigator Award recognizes excellence, innovation, leadership, and mentorship of a female early career investigator whose research has contributed significantly to a particular discipline in biological science.
Friday, May 12, 2023 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ballroom AB
100. AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award Presentation and Lecture
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
AAI President Mark M. Davis and Robert Balderas, Vice President of Bio. Sci., BD Biosciences, will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Sonnenberg’s lecture.
Chair
- Akiko Iwasaki, HHMI, Yale Sch. of Med., AAI Vice President
Award Recipient
Gregory F. Sonnenberg
Weill Cornell Med.
Innate regulation of immunity, inflammation, tolerance, and cancer
The AAI-BD Biosciences Investigator Award recognizes an early-career investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology.
Saturday, May 13, 2023 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Room 202A
125. AAI ASPIRE Award Symposium
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardees and present the awards immediately prior to the symposium.
Chairs
- Joan Goverman, Univ. of Washington, AAI Secretary-Treasurer
- Akiko Iwasaki, HHMI, Yale Sch. of Med., AAI Vice President
Award Recipients
Todd Bradley
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Natural killer cell immunoregulation of the HIV-1 antibody response
Hitesh Deshmukh
Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr.
Establishing lifelong trajectories of pulmonary health before and after birth
Rebecca Martin
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Targeting dendritic cell metabolism promotes allergen tolerance in asthma
Gabrielle Rizzuto
Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
Glycan-dependent mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance
Tuoqi Wu
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.
Transcriptional regulation of long-term T-cell immunity
Melody Yue Zeng
Weill Cornell Med.
Immune regulation by the gut microbiome in early life
The AAI ASPIRE Awards recognize early career research accomplishments and professional promise in the field of immunology.
Saturday, May 13, 2023 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Ballroom A
137. FASEB Excellence in Science Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation and Lecture
Dr. Butts will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Sharpe’s lecture.
Chair
- Cherié L. Butts, Biogen, FASEB Treasurer
Award Recipient
Arlene H. Sharpe
Harvard Med. Sch.
The biology behind PD-1 blockade
The FASEB Excellence in Science Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes excellence, innovation, leadership, and mentorship of a female established investigator whose research has contributed significantly to a particular discipline in biological science.
Saturday, May 13, 2023 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ballroom AB
187. AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award Presentation and Lecture
Generously supported by Thermo Fisher Scientific
AAI President Mark M. Davis and Rhonda Newman, Thermo Fisher Scientific, will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Wu’s lecture.
Chair
- Gary A. Koretzky, Cornell Univ. and Weill Cornell Med., AAI Past President
Award Recipient
Hao Wu
Harvard Med. Sch. and Boston Children's Hosp.
Inner workings on the inflammasome engine
The AAI-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to the field of immunology.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Room 202B
210. AAI Vanguard Award Presentation and Lecture
Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
Generously supported by BD Biosciences
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Binder’s lecture.
Chair
- Tonya J. Webb, Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Med., AAI Minority Affairs Committee Chair
Speaker
Robert J. Binder
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Key pathways in immunosurveillance of cancer
The AAI Vanguard Award recognizes an underrepresented member investigator noted for significant scientific achievement and exemplary career success.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Ballroom AB
211. AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award Presentation
AAI President Mark M. Davis and Shruti Naik, New York Univ. Grossman Sch. of Med., will introduce the awardee and present the award prior to the start of the President’s Symposium.
Chair
- Mark M. Davis, HHMI, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President
Award Recipient
Yasmine Belkaid
NIAID, NIH
The AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award recognizes exemplary career contributions to a future generation of scientists.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ballroom AB
264. AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Presentation and Lecture
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardee and present the award immediately prior to Dr. Hafler’s lecture.
Chair
- Mark M. Davis, HHMI, Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., AAI President
Award Recipient
David A. Hafler
Yale Sch. of Med.
Treg biology: insights into immunology by the study of human disease
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.
