Retiring Managing Director, Joan Oefner

ICIS Student/Postdoc Members submitting abstracts to Cytokines 2025 are eligible to apply for travel awards to cover part of their travel expenses. Application is through the online abstract submission form (coming soon) and must be submitted by the Abstract Submission Deadline. These awards are provided through generous grants from Industry Sponsors as well as ICIS member donors and are based on the scientific merit of the abstract as well as need based.

One applicant will be awarded the Joan Oefner Travel Award, a new initiative named in honor of our retiring Managing Director. Joan’s dedication has fueled ICIS’s growth, and this award will continue her legacy by supporting future leaders in our field. We invite you to join us in seeding this effort by contributing to the ICIS Travel Awards Fund, every year one of the ICIS Student/Postdoc Member travel award applicants will be chosen to receive this award.

Contributions may be tax deductible—please consult your tax advisor for details.

Congratulations to the 43 ICIS Student/Postdoc & Regular Member Travel Award winners at Cytokines 2024 in Seoul, Korea. Click here for more details.

Congratulations to the 39 ICIS Student/Postdoc Member Travel Award winners at Cytokine 2023 in Athens, and the 4 EFIS Trainee Award Winners. Click here for more details

Congratulations to the 92 winners of ICIS Student/Postdoc Member Travel Awards  distributed at Cytokines 2022 Joint meeting in Hawaii. Click here for more details.

ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Awards for Most Promising Research Presentations at the Cytokines Annual Meeting

Up to four (4) trainees with the highest scoring abstracts as per the scientific review committee, will be awarded $1,250 each and will be recognized at Cytokines 2025. The ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Awards are a recognition award and do not include travel or registration fees. These awards are sponsored by Pfizer in recognition of the next generation of cytokine & interferon researchers!

Qualifying Student/Postdoc members applying for an ICIS Student/Postdoc Member Travel Award winners will also be considered for an ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Awards, but will not be awarded more than one award in a given year.

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Many of the 43 Cytokines 2024 Travel Award Winners
Many of the 43 Cytokines 2024 Travel Award Winners
Some of the 92 Student/Postdoc Member Travel Award winners at Cytokines 2022
Some of the Cytokines 2022 ICIS Student/Postdoc Travel Award Winners
2024 ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Award Winners
2024 ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Award Winners
2021 ICIS-Pfizer Trainee Award winners