The American Association of Immunologists

Current Issue:
October 15, 2012
vol. 189 no. 8

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Current Issue:
September/October 2012

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Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D., is the 96th AAI President.

Dr. Bishop's Message to Members on goals and expectations for her term in office, July 1, 2012 -
June 30, 2013

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SAVE the DATE! Make your plans TODAY to attend IMMUNOLOGY2013™, the AAI Annual Meeting
Celebrating 100 Years — May 3-7, 2013
in Honolulu, Hawaii

• Nominations are invited for the 2013 AAI Career Awards, which honor immunologists of extraordinary scientific achievement and promise. AAI Members! Don't miss the opportunity to nominate a worthy colleague for awards that are among the leading professional honors presented annually to immunologists!

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The AAI Council is pleased to announce the re-naming of the AAI Award for Human Immunology Research in honor of the late AAI member Ralph Marvin Steinman, M.D., (1943–2011). The award will now be named the AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research.

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• AAI-submitted image is among 10 winning entries in first annual FASEB Bio-Art competition!



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• AAI Announces 2012-13 Public Policy Fellows!
  Click here for complete program details.

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• AAI Public Policy Fellows Travel to Capitol Hill, Advocate for Federal Science Funding — Ten early-career AAI scientists from across the country met with their Congressional delegations to express their passion for biomedical research, seek their legislators' support. View the video here.

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AAI News Archive

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• AAI Awards and Grants
• Immunology Jobs Board
• Research Funding, Grants, and Awards
• Training in Immunology

Meetings and Events Calendar

AAI History

• Articles
• Past Presidents
• President's Messages

• Andrea Cooper, Ph.D. (AAI '96) is leading a Trudeau Institute collaboration with TB researchers in China to explore how their laboratory studies could help people afflicted with tuberculosis, not just mice.
• Work by Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS (AAI '90) and colleagues investigating non alcoholic fatty liver disease is featured in Fall 2012 HHMI Bulletin.
• Mario L. Santiago, Ph.D. (AAI '11) receives 2012 ICAAC (Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy) Young Investigator Awards for his HIV-related virology research.
• Jeffrey V. Ravetch, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ‘99), recipient earlier this year of the Canada Gairdner International Award, Canada’s highest scientific award, has recently been named to receive the 2012 Sanofi–Pasteur Award.
• Harris A. Lewin, Ph.D. (AAI '89); Yasuko Rikihisa, Ph.D. (AAI '04); Alexander Rudensky, Ph.D. (AAI '94); and Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '90) elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Fred Finkelman, M.D. (AAI '76) receives the Middleton Award, which annually recognizes outstanding VA biomedical and bio-behavioral investigators.
• Christopher Karp, M.D. (AAI '95) joins the Gates Foundation as deputy director of host-pathogen & vaccine discovery for the foundation's Global Health Program.
• Marsha Wills-Karp, Ph.D. (AAI '04) joins the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as Environmental Health Sciences chair.
• Eicke Latz, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '08) awarded the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Research Prize.
• Work of Dan H. Barouch, Ph.D., M.D. (AAI '06) on an AIDS vaccine is featured in the Washington Post Health and Science Section.
• Research by Michael Oldstone, M.D. (AAI ’70) on how cytokine storms contribute to flu virus potency is featured in the Washington Post Health and Science Section.

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