Pfizer Junior Investigator Award Winners for Most Promising Research Presentations at the Cytokines Annual Meeting
JUSTINA KULIKAUSKAITE
fourth year PhD
Francis Crick Institute and University College London, UK
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GUANQUN ‘LEO’ LIU, PHD
Postdoc Fellow, Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center
Port St. Lucie, USA
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SWARNA BEESETTI, PHD
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
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LUCY SJAASTAD
PhD Candidate
University of Minnesota
St Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Congratulations to the (4) trainees with the highest scoring abstracts as per the scientific review committee! Each will be awarded $1,250 each and will be invited to give an Oral or Best Poster presentation at Cytokines 2021 Hybrid Meeting, recognized as a PfizerTrainee Presentation, in the most appropriate session based on topic.
The Pfizer Trainee Award Winners will also be invited to participate in a Pfizer symposium (physically at Pfizer Headquarters if possible AND via the ICIS virtual meeting platform on-demand within one year of the Annual Meeting), to showcase their award winning work. The symposium will also feature a networking event to introduce the award winners to associated research groups within Pfizer and expose the trainees to potential collaborations and career opportunities in industry.
These awards are sponsored by Pfizer in recognition of the next generation of cytokine & interferon researchers!
Announcing the 2021 Milstein Travel Award & Milstein Abstract Award Winners Presenting at Cytokines 2021
HARSHINI SHANIKA HEWAGAMA ASURAPPULIGE
University of the West of England, Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom
JIHONG BAE
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejeon, Korea, Republic Of
DIRK BAUMJOHANN
University Hospital Bonn
Bonn, Germany
CHARLIE BRIDGEWOOD
University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
SANDY STEPHANIE BURKART
DKFZ Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
WEI CAO
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, United States
MADALINA ELENA CARTER-TIMOFTE
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
RITU CHAKRAVARTI
University of Toledo
Toledo, United States
YONGZHI CHEN
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, United States
MATHEW CLEMENT
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom
DAVID CONSTANT
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, United States
LESLIE CREWS
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, United States
CHAITANYA DENDE
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, United States
KAREN OLIVIA DIXON
Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, United States
DARRAGH DUFFY
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
FRANCINE LIANNE CASTAÑEDA EMRALINO
Kyoto University
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Japan
CHARLES LEE EVAVOLD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, United States
FABIAN ALEXANDER FISCHER
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
LIRAZ GALIA
UMASS medical school
Shrewsbury, United States
SANDHYA GANESAN
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, United States
AUDREY GERARD
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
FEDERICA GIANGRAZI
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
STEPHANIE GOMEZ
The George Washington University
Washington, United States
JOHN BENJI GRIGG
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
New York, United States
RAHUL GUPTA
United States
ADAM HAGE
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, United States
HARSHAD INGLE
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, United States
ROBERT HYWEL JENKINS
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom
PENG JIANG
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, United States
LEI JIN
University Of Florida
Gainesville, United States
KRISHNA LATHA
University of Georgia
Athens, United States
ELISSA LEONARD
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, United States
SHITAO LI
Tulane University
New Orleans, United States
MICHELA LOCCI
University Of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
KATRINA B. MAR
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
Dallas, United States
BHARATI MATTA
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Manhasset, United States
JULIA MATTHIAS
Infection Immunology
Berlin, Germany
KATELYN MCCANN
NIH/NIAID
Bethesda, United States
FLORA ANN MCCLURE
University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
EMILY MESEV
Princeton University
PRINCETON, United States
AARON S. MEYER
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
WILLIAM MILLER-LITTLE
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Hts, United States
KATHLEEN MILLS
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, United States
TAKASHI NISHINA
Toho University
Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan
DAVID OLAGNIER
Aarhus University
Aarhus C., Denmark
KIMBERLY OLIVA
University of GA
ATHENS, United States
STEPHANIE PFÄNDER
Ruhr University Bochum
Bochum, Germany
SERGIO M. PONTEJO
National Institute of Allegy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, United States
REBECCA A. PORRITT
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Sherman Oaks, United States
ROBERTO RICARDO-GONZALEZ
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
MAHESH RAUNDHAL
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, United States
ELSA SANCHEZ LOPEZ
University of California San Diego
LA JOLLA, United States
IZORTZE SANTIN
University of the Basque Country
Leioa, Spain
ELANA SHAW
NIAID
Bethesda, United States
HAN-YU SHIH
National Eye Institute, NIH
Bethesda, United States
DALTRY SNIDER
Duke University
Durham, United States
ANTHONY ST. LEGER
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, United States
CALEB STOKES
University of Washington
Seattle, United States
E. TAYLOR STONE
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, United States
NIAMH TROY
Telethon Kids Institute
Perth, Australia
DEREK VANDYKE
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, United States
BARNEY VIENGKHOU
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
TIM VIERBUCHEN
UMass Medical School
Worcester, United States
MICHAEL WALSH
Harvard Medical School
Boston, United States
YUXIN WANG
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
cleveland, United States
NICOLE WARD
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, United States
HUILIN YANG
Johns Hopkins University
BALTIMORE, United States
JACOB YOUNT
The Ohio State University
Columbus, United States
DI YU
The University of Queensland
Woolloongabba, Australia
LEI ZHOU
Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK, United States
PENGCHENG ZHOU
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
ANNETT ZIEGLER
Twincore Gmbh
Lehrte, Germany
ICIS-Milstein Travel / Abstract Awards
The ICIS-Milstein Travel Awards may be applied for by poster and oral abstract submitters. Each year the the ICIS Awards Committee has chosen the top ranking 65 – 80 abstract presenters to receive Travel Awards to cover part of their travel & registration expenses. These awards are sponsored by generous gift from the Milstein Family–Seymour Milstein (July 21, 1920 – October 2, 2001). Milstein’s son Philip has generously continued to support this award for the twenty (20) years following the passing of his father. This year additional funding has been provided by the Vilcek Foundation.
ICIS members who attend the Annual Meeting of the ICIS and submit a meeting abstract are eligible for ICIS-Milstein Travel Awards. Please note that there are no age restrictions to this award. However, if both senior and junior members from the same laboratory apply for an award, preference is given to the junior member.
- Click here to view the 2020 Milstein Abstract Award Winners
- Click here to view the 2019 Milstein Travel Award Winners
- Click here to view 2018 Milstein Travel Award Winners.
EFIS/EJI Travel/Abstract Award Winners Presenting at Cytokines 2021
SARA DANIELLI
Kennedy Institute of rheumatology
Oxford, United Kingdom
TOMMY REGEN
Univ Med Center Mainz, Inst for Molecular Medicine
Mainz, Germany
CONOR M. FINLAY
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
FANGFANG CHEN
TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research
Hannover, Germany
CORALIE GUY
Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
Dublin, Ireland
NICHOLAS PROVINE
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
European Federation of Immunological Societies and the European Journal of Immunology Travel/Abstract Awards
Available for trainees and postdoc presenters who are currently working in Europe or the UK. Applicants must not be ICIS members to apply for an EFIS/EJI Travel/Abstract Award.
Presenters may apply for ALL awards (ICIS/Milstein, EFIS/EJI Awards and Pfizer Trainee Award), but will not be granted more than one award. Applications are ranked based on scientific excellence and funds allocated based on Abstract ranking.
For those participating virtually, the a smaller financial award will be provided. Applicants can apply for more than one award but will not be awarded more than one award in a given year.
