IMMUNOLOGY2025™

May 3–7, 2025 | Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA

AAI Events

Sunday, May 4, 2025 ⏐ 9:00 – 10:30 ⏐ Ballroom A

AAI Business Meeting and Award Presentations

Loretta L. Doan, AAI Chief Executive Officer, will provide an update on AAI’s achievements over the past year and present the AAI Distinguished Service Awards and AAI ASPIRE Awards.

Chair:

  • Loretta L. Doan, AAI Chief Executive Officer

Speakers:

  • Joan Goverman, Univ. of Washington, AAI Secretary-Treasurer  
  • Gail A. Bishop, Univ. of Iowa Carver Col. of Med., Editor-in-Chief The Journal of Immunology
  • Bonnie N. Dittel, Versiti Blood Research Inst., Editor-in-Chief   ImmunoHorizons 
  • Cherié Butts, Biogen, AAI Committee on Public Affairs Chair

Distinguished Service Awards:

  • Julie M. Jameson, California State Univ., San Marcos, USA
  • Edith Porter, California State Univ., Los Angeles, USA

ASPIRE Awards:

  • Mohammad Arifussaman, Weill Cornell Med., USA
  • Christopher O. Barnes, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Brandon J. DeKosky, The Ragon Inst. and MIT, USA
  • Anna-Maria Globig, Allen Inst. for Immunology, USA
  • Jenna Guthmiller, Univ. of Colorado Anschutz Med. Campus, USA
  • Miguel Reina Campos, La Jolla Inst. for Immunology, USA
  • Pamela Rosato, Geisel Sch. of Med. at Dartmouth, USA

Pfizer-Showell Award:

  • Deepshika Ramanan, Ph.D., Salk Inst. for Bio. Sts.  

Lefrançois-BioLegend Memorial Award:  

  • Timothy C. Borbet, Ph.D., New York Univ. Langone Med. Ctr

Chambers-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award:   

  • Yongxia Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Med. Col. of Wisconsin  

Lustgarten-Thermo Fisher Scientific Memorial Award:   

  • Stephen N. Waggoner, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children’s Hosp. Med. Ctr.  

AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Awards:

  • Mackenzie J. Bender, Yale Univ.  
  • David R. Glass, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Ctr.  
  • Jingyun Luan, Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago  
  • Mark M. Painter, Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania  
  • Catherine M. Phelps, Univ. of Pittsburgh  
  • Olivia Venezia, Harvard Med. Sch.