Brendan Jenkins has been selected as the recipient of the ICIS 2023 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his reputation in the community as both an outstanding cytokine scientist and a remarkably dedicated member of the ICIS. As the lead organizer of the annual meeting in Melbourne in 2014 and his continued service to the Society since 2016 as the Chair of the ICIS Meetings Committee.

The Awards Presentation will take place during Cytokines 2023 on Sunday evening, October 15th at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, Greece.

Daniela Novick has been chosen to receive the 2023 ICIS Honorary Lifetime Membership Award in recognition of her ground-breaking discoveries in cytokine biology which have impacted the field significantly, as well as her contributions to clinical medicine. She is a treasured member to the ICIS, a woman scientist in a field which was mostly dominated by men, who has contributed so much to basic science and to translational medicine, ultimately playing a pivotal role in the development of four drugs, two of which she discovered and three are blockbusters.

Dusan Bogunovic has been selected as the 2023 ICIS-LUMINEX JOHN R. KETTMAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INTERFERON & CYTOKINE RESEARCH MID-CAREER, in recognition for his outstanding contributions to the field of cytokine biology and his remarkable international reputation as an immunologist and geneticist with a focus on inborn disorders of the immune system, especially concerning the JAK/STAT pathway.