2018 ICIS Young Investigator Awards

Presented by ICIS Awards Committee:

Bryan Williams, Chair (2017-2019)
Kate Fitzgerald, Co-Chair (2017-2019)
Nicola Ivan Lore (2015-2020)
Seth Masters (2015-2020)
Fabienne MacKay (2018-2020)

Thomas B. Lavoie (2017 – 2019)
Seth Masters (2015-2017)
Masaaki Murakami (2018-2020)
Dane Parker (2015-2020)

Milstein Young Investigator Awards

1^st Place Milstein Young Investigator Awardee: Cristina Bergamaschi, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, USA
TREATMENT WITH HETERODIMERIC IL-15 SHAPES THE CYTOKINE AND CHEMOKINE MILIEU OF THE TUMOR, PROMOTING TUMOR INFILTRATION BY CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTES: A GENERAL METHOD FOR LYMPHOCYTE ENTRY IN TUMORS

Presentation on Sunday, 28 October, 09:45 – 10:00 in Plenary Session I

Ricardo Rajsbaum, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
REGULATION OF NOVEL PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR SIGNALING AND IFN INDUCTION BY UNANCHORED K48-LINKED POLYUBIQUITIN CHAINS

Presentation on Sunday, 28 October, 10:00-10:15 in Plenary Session I

Vijay Rathinam, UConn Health School of Medicine, Farmington, USA
THE EXPANDING FUNCTIONS OF THE INFLAMMASOME COMPLEXES

Presentation on Tuesday, 30 October, 11:00 – 11:25 in Symposium 15: Inflammasome and IL1 Family members II

Gregory F. Sonnenberg, Weil Cornell, New York City, USA
CYTOKINE REGULATION OF INTESTINAL HEALTH

Presentation on Sunday, 28 October, 16:30 – 16:55 in Symposium 6: Intestinal Homeostasis

Munir Akkaya, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
TYPE I INTERFERONS REGULATE B CELL DEVELOPMENT AND  DIFFERENTIATION

Presentation on Monday, 29 October, 10:20-10:35 in Plenary 2:  Advances in Pathogenic Th17 axis of evil

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The Christina Fleischmann Award to Young Women Investigators

Sophia Davidson, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Parkville, Australia

DELINEATION OF THE INFLAMMATORY PATHWAY BEHIND PROTEASOME-ASSOCIATED AUTOINFLAMMATORY SYNDROME

Presentation on Sunday, 28 October, 10:15 – 10:30 in Plenary Session

The Sidney & Joan Pestka Graduate & Post-Graduate Awards sponsored by:

Sidney & Joan Pestka Graduate Award: Erika Engelowski, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
DI- AND TRIMERIC BIOLOGICAL SWITCHES MADE OF NANOBODY-CYTOKINE RECEPTOR FUSION PROTEINS SIMULATE NATURAL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

Presentation on Sunday 28 October, 12:15-12:25 in Symposium 1: Innate Sensing and Signaling

The Sidney & Joan Pestka Post-Graduate Award

Christoph Schneider, Universeity of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
A METABOLITE-TRIGGERED TUFT CELL-ILC2 CIRCUIT DRIVES SMALL INTESTINAL REMODELING

Presentation on Sunday 28 October, 12:25-12:35 in Symposium 1: Innate Sensing and Signaling