Congratulations to Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja from the Department of Immunology on the award of her NIH R56 grant through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases entitled, “Bacterial modulation of noncanonical inflammasome"

Congratulations to MD/PhD Student Keaton Karlinsey and Graduate Student Alyssa Matz from Dr. Beiyan Zhou’s lab, who received invitations to give short oral presentations at the CHARGE meeting on October 10-12, 2023, in San Antonio, Texas.   Keaton’s project relates to developing a risk assessment model for cardiovascular diseases using novel computer algorithms.  Alyssa received a competitive travel award to present her exciting discovery on aging B cell response to vaccination using an innovative computational program, B-RAY.

Congratulations to Dr. Penghua Wang for receiving promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure.  Dr. Wang’s research is focused on innate immunity and pathogenesis of important human viral diseases.

Congratulations to Dr. Penghua Wang from the Department of Immunology on the award of his NIH R21 grant through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases entitled, “The mechanism of flaviviral suppression of vitamin A metabolism”

Congratulations to Ryan Englander on the award of his NIH F30 fellowship grant through the National Cancer Institute entitled, “Alternative splicing as a source of shared neoantigens in a non-small cell lung cancer”.  Ryan is an MD/PhD candidate in the laboratories of affiliated faculty member Dr. Karolina Palucka and Dr. Olga Anczuków at The Jackson Laboratory.

Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Vella and Dr. Adam Adler on the award of their NIH R03 grant through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases entitled, “Generating a novel conditional knockout mouse for a super-enhancer that controls cytokine responsiveness".

Congratulations to Andrew Harrison who has been selected as a recipient of a 2023 AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award.  This award recognizes six promising trainees in the field of immunology selected for oral presentation in a Block Symposium. Andrew is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Penghua Wang, and his project involves investigating the role of glucose transporters in antiviral immunity.

Congratulations to Saki Mihori who has received an AAI Trainee Poster Award and ribbon of distinction for the 2023 AAI meeting in May in Washington D.C..  Saki is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Clark and her project focuses on understanding mechanisms involved in harnessing the gut microbiome to regulate systemic innate immunity.

Dr. Yuanyuan Wu was selected to receive the AAI Trainee Abstract Award and invited to give an oral presentation at the Block Symposium of “Cellular Adhesion, Migration and Inflammation” at IMMUNOLOGY2023^TM in Washington, DC. Dr. Wu’s project in Dr. Zhichao Fan’s lab relates to using super-resolution stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) and CRISPR-Cas9 to study the roles of kindlin-3 and talin-1 in beta2 integrin clustering on neutrophils.

Congratulations to Keaton Karlinsey on the award of his NIH F30 fellowship grant through the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute entitled, “Predicting Cardiovascular Outcomes Using Diabetes-Induced Transcriptomic Networks”.  Keaton is an MD/PhD candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Beiyan Zhou.