ICIS-Distinguished Service Award to be Renamed in Honor of Howard Young, Ph.D.

Today, the governing council of the International Cytokine & Interferon Society (ICIS) announced the Society’s ICIS-Distinguished Service Award would henceforth be known as the ICIS-Howard A. Young Distinguished Service Award in recognition of the extraordinary contributions Dr. Young has given to the ICIS and its predecessor society, the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR).

“It’s hard to imagine anyone ever doing more for our society than Howard Young,” said current ICIS President, Sarah Gaffen. “Starting with his leadership of the ISICR, the countless committees on which he served, his stewardship of Signals+, he is the epitome of service and the spirit that permeates everything we do.”

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Howard Young – 2016 Honorary Membership Award

Howard Young joined the National Cancer Institute in 1983 as an independent investigator and is now a Senior Investigator in the Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute at Frederick, in Frederick, MD. He is a Past President of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research, has served on the ICIS Council for the last 3 years and for over 15 years has been on the ICIS Membership Committee. He founded and currently edits the ICIS newsletter. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology, the Faculty of 1000 and he has also served as Chair of the Immunology Division of the American Society for Microbiology. He was co-founder and Chair of the NIH Cytokine Interest Group (2 times) and is now an elected member of the NIH Immunology Interest Group steering committee and the NIH Assembly of Scientists. He is a two-time Recipient – National Cancer Institute – of the NIH Director’s Award for Mentoring and a Recipient – National Public Service Award from the American Society for Public Administration and the National Academy of Public Administration.