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In This Issue . . . 2 Next Editor-in-Chief for The JI : Applicants Invited IMMUNOLOGY 2012TM Career Development 3 Focus on Public Affairs: Program Spotlight – New Careers in Biotech „„ AAI Public Policy Fellows Advocate on Event Sells Out as 300 Pre-register Ahead of Capitol Hill Boston Meeting „„ Administration Seeks See page 5 to Fuel Pipeline of STEM Professionals 5 New Careers in Biotech Session Attracts 300 Registrants at IMMUNOLOGY 2012™ 6 Members in the News: „„ Finkelman is VA Awardee „„ Latz Receives Clinical Research Prize „„ Karp Joins Gates Foundation 9 Participate in 2012 Life Sciences Salary Survey 10 AAI Summer Immunology Courses Set for July 11 2012 AAI Introductory Course Lineup of Instructors, Topics 12 In Memoriam: „„ Elizabeth Smithwick „„ Galen Toews 17 2012 AAI Advanced Course Lineup of Instructors, Topics 18 2012 AAI Travel Award & Grant Recipients 24 A Look Back: The Founding of AAI 30 Science at the First AAI Annual Meeting 31 Grant & Award Deadlines 32 Meetings Calendar EDITOR-IN-CHIEF e Journal of Immunology e American Association of Immunologists, Inc. (AAI) seeks applicants for the position of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for its o cial publication, e Journal of Immunology ( e JI).

 e primary responsibility of the EIC is to maintain the role of e J I as a de nitive resource for immunology research. He or she will do so by ensuring the scienti c excellence of the content and integrity of the peer-review process. To that end, the EIC will recommend an editorial board for appointment by the AAI Publications Committee and approval by the AAI Council; be responsible for the oversight of editorial conduct and the peer-review process; address concerns of authors; and make  nal decisions on manuscript publication.  e EIC will address allegations of author misconduct and act in accordance with e J I Editorial Policies and Practices and AAI policy.  e EIC is responsible to the AAI Publications Committee and, ultimately, to the AAI Council, and is an ex o cio member of both groups. Applicants are expected to have an accomplished scienti c career with a signi cant publication record in addition to appropriate editorial experience. Candidates should possess strong leadership qualities, intellectual vision and outstanding interpersonal skills. Applicants must be members of AAI in good standing and are required to reside within the continental U.S.

 e term of service for this position is from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2018.  e appointed EIC is expected to overlap with the incumbent EIC starting January 1, 2013, to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities.  is position is considered to be part-time. A stipend and associated expenses are provided.

Interested individuals are invited to submit an application package that includes a curriculum vitae; a succinct letter of interest and quali cations; a statement on the possible conceptual direction of e J I in its pursuit of scienti c excellence; and innovations that may be considered. Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2012. Please mail or e-mail them to:

Chair AAI Publications Committee c/o AAI 9650 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 [email protected] EOE

2 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org Focus on Public Affairs

AAI Public Policy Fellows Advocate for NIH Funding on Capitol Hill

n March 7, 2012, the a video made by The Federation of American Societies for EDITOR-IN-CHIEF inaugural class of AAI Experimental Biology (FASEB), of which AAI is a charter OPublic Policy Fellows member. That video can be viewed at http://youtu.be/ went to Capitol Hill to advocate eTfCB0eMoAc. The fellows’ message urging a modest e Journal of Immunology for federal support for biomedical increase in the NIH budget was well-received, though any research, including at least $32 funding increases remain unlikely in this difficult fiscal e American Association of Immunologists, Inc. (AAI) billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Fiscal environment. seeks applicants for the position of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for its o cial publication, Year (FY) 2013. . The ten young scientists who were selected to participate e Journal of Immunology ( e JI) in this new AAI program (http://aai.org/Public_Affairs/ PPFP/Fellows_past.html) traveled from across the country  e primary responsibility of the EIC is to maintain the role of as a de nitive resource for e J I to meet with their congressional delegations to express immunology research. He or she will do so by ensuring the scienti c excellence of the content and their passion for biomedical research and to ask for their integrity of the peer-review process. To that end, the EIC will recommend an editorial board for representatives’ support. appointment by the AAI Publications Committee and approval by the AAI Council; be responsible The AAI Fellows participated for the oversight of editorial conduct and the peer-review process; address concerns of authors; in a two-day program, which and make  nal decisions on manuscript publication.  e EIC will address allegations of author included a presentation by Kamal Khanna with Kaylie misconduct and act in accordance with e J I Editorial Policies and Practices and AAI policy. special guest speaker Hugh Devavani Chatterjea Hanson from the Office of Senator with Representative Betty Richard Blumenthal Auchincloss, M.D. (AAI  e EIC is responsible to the AAI Publications Committee and, ultimately, McCollum (D-4th, MN) '83), deputy director of the to the AAI Council, and is an ex o cio member of both groups. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Applicants are expected to have an accomplished scienti c career with a signi cant publication Eric Weimer with Representative record in addition to appropriate editorial experience. Candidates should possess strong David Price (D-4th, NC) (NIAID). Auchincloss briefed leadership qualities, intellectual vision and outstanding interpersonal skills. Applicants must be the fellows on NIH and NIAID members of AAI in good standing and are required to reside within the continental U.S. funding and addressed other issues of interest to young immunologists. The program also included remarks by AAI  e term of service for this position is from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2018.  e appointed EIC is Committee on Public Affairs Chair Derry Roopenian, Ph.D.; expected to overlap with the incumbent EIC starting January 1, 2013, to ensure a smooth transition of AAI Advocacy Programs Subcommittee Chair Michael responsibilities.  is position is considered to be part-time. A stipend and associated expenses are provided. Princiotta, Ph.D.; and AAI Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs Lauren Gross, J.D. Left to right: Eric Weimer, Anastazia Older Aguilar, Interested individuals are invited to submit an application package that includes a curriculum vitae; The fellows’ trip to Devavani Chatterjea, Amy Moran, Linda Lieberman, a succinct letter of interest and quali cations; a statement on the possible conceptual direction Capitol Hill enabled Lauren Gross, Caleph Wilson, Derry Roopenian of e J I in its pursuit of scienti c excellence; and innovations that may be considered. each of the 10 fellows Applications will be accepted through May 31, 2012. Please mail or e-mail them to: to visit the offices of their congressional Chair delegation, as well as AAI Publications Committee c/o AAI the offices of other 9650 Rockville Pike fellows’ representatives. Bethesda, MD 20814 AAI was fortunate to be [email protected] able to capture some of Judy Cannon with Senator Tom the program through EOE Udall (D-NM) NIAID Deputy Director Hugh Auchincloss speaking to the AAI Fellows about key policy issues

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PCAST Outlines Path to One Million More STEM Professionals

The American Association alone, generate three-quarters of the of Immunologists targeted one million additional STEM degrees.” 9650 Rockville Pike The PCAST strategy for increasing Bethesda, MD 20814-3994 Tel: 301-634-7178 retention is outlined in five major Fax: 301-634-7887 recommendations: “1) catalyze Email: [email protected] widespread adoption of empirically www.aai.org validated teaching practices; Member Services 2) advocate and provide support Tel: 301-634-7195 for replacing standard laboratory Email: [email protected] courses with discovery-based The Journal of Immunology o retain its historical research courses; 3) launch a national Tel: 301-634-7197 preeminence in science and experiment in postsecondary Email: [email protected] T technology, the United States mathematics education to address www.jimmunol.org/ will need “approximately one million the math preparation gap; Council more [STEM—science, technology, 4) encourage partnerships among President engineering and math] professionals stakeholders to diversify pathways Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D. than [it]….will produce at the to STEM careers; and 5) create Vice President current rate over the next decade….” a presidential council on STEM Gail A. Bishop, Ph.D. according to a recent report by the education with leadership from the President’s Council of Advisors on academic and business communities Past President Science and Technology (PCAST). to provide strategic leadership for Jeffrey A. Frelinger, Ph.D.

In the report, Engage to Excel: transformative and sustainable Secretary-Treasurer Producing One Million Additional change in STEM undergraduate Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. College Graduates with Degrees in education.” Science, Technology, Engineering, and These recommendations will Councillors Marc K. Jenkins, Ph.D. Mathematics (STEM), PCAST outlines help President Obama develop his Linda A. Sherman, Ph.D. recommendations to reach this goal. five-year Federal STEM Education Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D. If it is to produce these additional strategic plan, expected to be released Arlene H. Sharpe, M.D., Ph.D. STEM professionals within a decade, this spring. In his recently released Ex Officio Councillors the U.S. must increase the number of FY 2013 budget request, President Jeremy M. Boss, Ph.D. students who receive STEM degrees Obama included $3 billion for STEM M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D. by roughly 34 percent annually. The education, a 2.6 percent increase over Kristin A. Hogquist, Ph.D. Paul E. Love, M.D., Ph.D. report points out that fewer than the previous year’s level. 40 percent of students who enter Executive Director college with the intention of majoring M. Michele Hogan, Ph.D. in a STEM field graduate with a www.aai.org/About/ STEM degree. According to PCAST, Departments-Staff “increasing the retention of STEM majors to just 50 percent would,

4 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org New Careers in Biotech Session Draws 300 at IMMUNOLOGY 2012TM

AAI continues to evolve its career “Many young scientists are interested in development programs at the AAI annual industry careers but have concerns about meeting to address the changing needs of whether they will lose their academic freedom, trainees and early- and mid-career scientists. the types of positions available, ways they The menu of career programs offered in can transition into industry from academia, 2012 was the most varied ever—and has been additional skill sets that might give them an enthusiastically received. A new session, advantage in the job hunt, the day-to-day “Careers in Biotech Panel Discussion and responsibilities and job culture within industry, Networking,” drew a room-capacity 300 among others. Following the panel discussion, Clinton Mathias pre-registrants. session attendees had the opportunity to chat with the panelists and other industry contacts at “This response demonstrates the enormous a networking reception. interest of young scientists in careers in industry,” according to Mary Litzinger, Ph.D., The careers in biotech session supplements AAI manager of educational and career the always popular AAI career roundtables development programs. This AAI Education offered at the AAI annual meeting by the AAI Committee-sponsored session was chaired by Minority Affairs Committee and jointly by the Clinton Mathias, a member of the committee AAI Education Committee and AAI Committee and assistant professor at Western New England on the Status of Women. “The roundtables that are devoted to careers in biotech and industry Arthur Tzianabos University. Joining Mathias on the panel were Arthur Tzianabos, vice president and head, are always among the most fully subscribed,” research and early development, Shire Human said Litzinger. “We wanted to respond to the Genetic Therapies; Andy Kokaji, senior scientist, keen interest our attendees show in this area.” STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.; Chris Schwab, ǃǃ To view meeting abstracts and final senior medical science liaison, Human Genome program, visit IMMUNOLOGY2012.org. Sciences, Inc.; and Olivia Schneider, chief ǃǃ Look for more post-meeting news, photos, scientific officer, Shenandoah Biotechnology, and highlights in the July-August Issue of Inc. the AAI Newsletter. Representing a range of career pursuits in Andy Kokaji industry, the panelists were enlisted to discuss their respective career paths and identify the skills required to succeed in these careers.

Career Sessions and Services at IMMUNOLOGY 2012TM

ǃǃ Academics and SBIR/STTR Grants: ǃǃ How to Convert Your CV into a Résumé Chris Schwab Seeking Opportunities (followed by one-on-one counseling) ǃǃ Careers in Biotech Panel Discussion ǃǃ Interviewing for a Job and Networking Reception ǃǃ Secrets for a Successful Postdoctoral ǃǃ Careers in Science Lecture and Fellowship Networking Roundtable – Sponsored ǃǃ Writing and Reviewing Manuscripts: Two by the AAI Committee on the Status of Sides of the Same Coin Women, AAI Education Committee ǃǃ Online and Onsite Jobs Board, Free to ǃǃ Careers and Networking Roundtable – Meeting Registrants, Exhibitors Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs (http://www.immunology2012.org/ Olivia Schneider Committee Attendees/jobsboard.html)

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Fred Finkelman Is 2011 antigen presentation during the dendritic cell-mediated choice between tolerance and immunity. Finkelman’s work has Middleton Awardee contributed to many innovations in vaccine development and therapeutic approaches to allergy. Fred D. Finkelman, M.D., AAI '76, As Middleton Award recipient, Finkelman will receive was recently named the recipient $50,000 annually for three years in research support along of the 2011 Middleton Award, with a cash award of $5,000 and an inscribed plaque the highest honor accorded U.S. commemorating his scientific achievements. A corresponding Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plaque will be presented to the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs investigators in recognition of their Medical Center in Finkelman’s honor. outstanding scientific contributions “I am delighted to receive the 2011 William S. Middleton and achievements in the areas of Award,” said Finkelman. “Like my physician-scientist biomedical and bio-behavioral colleagues at the VA, universities, and research institutes, I research relevant to the healthcare of engage in patient care and biomedical research for the rewards veterans. of improving the lives of my patients and the intellectual joy Conferred by the Biomedical Laboratory Research and of discovery. However, it is very gratifying to learn through an Development division of the VA’s Office of Research and award that my efforts have been valued by my colleagues. The Development, the award annually recognizes an investigator award additionally gives me a public opportunity to thank my who has contributed significantly to improving veterans’ health principal mentors, particularly Bill Paul, Irwin Scher, and Alan care, inspired new VA investigators through excellence in Sher, as well as my wonderful collaborators, including Jimmy training and mentorship, and enhanced the national visibility Mond, Joe Urban, Suzanne Morris, Rick Strait, Marat Khodoun, and reputation of VA research. Marsha Wills-Karp, and Marc Rothenberg, from whom I’ve The 2011 Middleton Award recognizes Finkelman’s learned so much and with whom I’ve had so much fun.” exemplary service to the VA and the biomedical profession Finkelman is a past member of the AAI Committee on and his seminal contributions to our understanding of innate Public Affairs and AAI Nominating Committee and a past immunology, including the role of cytokines in immune- recipient of the AAI Minority Scientist Mentor/Trainee Travel mediated disease, host defense mechanisms in parasitic Award. He has served as an abstract programming chair for infection, the role of dendritic cells in antigen presentation, the AAI annual meeting and deputy editor for The Journal of and the mechanism of allergy. His work has had a broad impact Immunology (The JI). Since 2010, he has served as Secretary- on clinical care of veterans and the population at large. Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair for the Federation of Finkelman is McDonald Professor of Medicine at the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), having University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and professor in served previously on the FASEB board and since 2005 on the the Department of Pediatrics (Division of Immunobiology) at FASEB Finance Committee. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Research Foundation. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, He also serves as director of the Division of Rheumatology at Finkelman is an associate editor for the Journal of Allergy the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center and as interim and Clinical Immunology and has held editorial board director of the Division of Cellular and Molecular Immunology appointments with Infection and Immunity and International at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Immunology. His additional career honors and appointments Using mouse models to address a broad range of questions include: member, NIH Hypersensitivity, Autoimmune, and in immunology that mainly converge on issues involving Immune-mediated Diseases study section; member, VA cytokines, the Finkelman lab investigates the roles of cytokines Research Advisory Committee; member, Arthritis Foundation in gastrointestinal nematode infections, asthma pathogenesis, Clinical Immunology study section; member, NIH Transgenic and pregnancy regulation. Finkelman and colleagues also Mouse Committee; keynote speaker, Japanese Parasitological address the regulation of cytokine production, lymphopoiesis, Society; Jerry Dolovich Memorial Lectureship, American and lymphocyte activation and tolerance, particularly in Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI); reference to the relationship between inflammation and keynote speaker, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

6 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org symposium; chair, Keystone symposium; Eicke Latz Awarded Clinical and invited speaker, meetings of the British Immunology Society, Japan Allergy Research Prize Association, and International Union of Microbiological Societies. Eicke Latz, M.D., Ph.D., AAI ‘08, was A biology graduate of Queens College, recently honored as the recipient of the 2011 Finkelman received his M.D. from Yale GlaxoSmithKline Foundation (GSKF) Clinical University and completed internships Research Prize for outstanding scientific work in in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven clinical research. Latz’s selection was based on Hospital. He later completed postdoctoral his 2010 Nature paper “NLRP3 inflammasomes fellowships at NIAID/NIH (immunology) are required for atherogenesis and activated by and the University of Texas Health Science cholesterol crystals.” Center, Dallas (rheumatology). He then Eicke is a professor of medicine and director of held succeeding appointments as assistant, the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University associate, and full professor in the Uniformed of Bonn and serves as an assistant professor Services University of the Health Sciences in medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the (USUHS) Department of Medicine, where University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School. He is a member of the he also served as director of the Division Immunology and Virology Graduate Program in the UMass Graduate School of of Rheumatology. He joined the University Biomedical Sciences and is the founder and scientific co-director of the UMass of Cincinnati College of Medicine and NanoMedicine Institute. Cincinnati VA Medical Center in 1995 and Latz investigates the molecular mechanisms of innate immune receptor has held his Cincinnati Children’s Hospital activation. After elucidating the mechanisms of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) Medical Center and Medical Research activation, Latz has gone on to focus on the NLRP3 and AIM2 inflammasomes. Foundation appointments since 2001. The NLRP3 inflammasome can respond to substances that include crystals of The VA’s Middleton Award was established monosodium urate, which form in gout, and crystals of cholesterol that are in 1960 to honor William S. Middleton, M.D., found in atherosclerotic plaques. His research into the role of these crystals in a distinguished educator, physician–scientist, atherosclerotic inflammation has provided new insights into the pathogenesis and chief medical director at the VA from of and potential therapies for atherosclerosis. The laboratory seeks to 1955 to 1963. translate their discoveries regarding the molecular basis of innate immune activation into molecular tools that could support diagnostics or treatment of AAI Public Affairs inflammatory diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease or atherosclerosis. Latz is a past major symposium speaker at the AAI annual meeting and an OnlIne ad hoc reviewer for The Journal of Immunology. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple additional journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Visit us to Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology, Immunity, Blood, Journal of • Learn about Leukocyte Biology, Immunobiology, Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, Expert NIH funding Opinion on Biological Therapy, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Human • Keep current on key policy issues Immunology, Journal of Endotoxin Research, Journal of Experimental Medicine, • Discover how you Cytometry, Circulation Research, and Brain Blood Immunity. can help AAI in its advocacy His career honors include the Award of the Japanese Society of Surgery, initiatives Tokyo National Cancer Center; Japanese Society for Endoscopy Scholarship; Go to www.aai.org and click on German Academic Exchange Program Postdoctoral Training Grant; and Public Affairs. Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Award. Latz received his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in molecular medicine from Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and M.D. (hematology) from the Free University of Berlin. He completed an internship, residency, and postdoctoral

AAI_PublicAffairsAD_14P_2.inddwww.aai.org 1 8/4/10 8:29:09 AM AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 7 Members in the News fellowship at Charité University Hospital, Humboldt said Karp of his appointment. “Coming as it did for me after University, and served as a visiting scientist at Merck more than two decades alongside colleagues and trainees Research Laboratories. He later completed postdoctoral in the academic research lab setting, the Gates Foundation fellowships at Boston University School of Medicine and appointment represents a very special opportunity to work UMass Medical School before joining the UMass faculty as with scientists from around the world endeavoring to have an assistant professor in 2003. He has held his University of impact on a global scale. It is an honor and a privilege, and Bonn appointments since 2009. quite humbling.” Awarded annually since 1989, the GSKF Clinical Research Karp is a section editor and past associate editor for The award conveys a prize of €10,000. Candidates are nominated Journal of Immunology (The JI) and has served on multiple by a faculty member of the Max Planck Institute or equivalent occasions as a major symposium speaker and block symposium professional society. chair at the AAI annual meeting. He has served on numerous NIH study sections and special emphasis panels as well as other national and international grant review panels, including Christopher Karp Joins at the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Science Foundation, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, National Gates Foundation Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Wellington Medical Research Foundation, Italian Cystic Christopher L. Karp, M.D., AAI Fibrosis Foundation, The Agency for Science, Technology and ’95, has been appointed deputy Research (A*STAR) Biomedical Research Council (Singapore), director, global health discovery Cystic Fibrosis Trust (U.K.), Swiss National Science Foundation, and translational science (vaccines Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Unity through Knowledge and host pathologen biology), Fund (Republic of Croatia Ministry of Science, Education and for the Bill and Melinda Gates Sport), Research Council K.U. Leuven (Belgium), and French Foundation in Seattle. National Research Agency. Prior to joining the Gates Karp has held editorial board appointments with the Foundation on March 1, Karp was Journal of Leukocyte Biology and Inflammation and served the Gunnar Esiason/Cincinnati as a reviewer for over 60 other journals, including Nature, Bell Chair of Life Sciences and Nature Immunology, Nature Medicine, New England Journal director of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Center at Cincinnati of Medicine, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Clinical Immunology Children’s Hospital Medical Center and professor in the and Immunopathology, Clinical Immunology, Clinical and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati. Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, Infection and Immunity, Karp’s research has focused on elucidating the molecular Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, International mechanisms responsible for regulation and dysregulation Journal of Immunopharmacology, International Immunology, of inflammatory responses in infectious, allergic, genetic, Viral Immunology, Immunology Today/Trends in Immunology, and metabolic disease, focusing on diseases of children. His Vaccine, Lancet, Journal of Neuroimmunology, Inflammation, body of work includes the discovery of a defect in lipoxin- Current Immunology Reviews, Journal of Experimental mediated anti-inflammatory activity in the cystic fibrosis lung, Medicine, PLoS ONE, Immunity, and Mucosal Immunology. the identification of IFRD1 as a novel modifier gene for cystic His additional career appointments and honors include: fibrosis lung disease, the identification of the TLR homolog member, Faculty of 1000 (2002-2012); Councilor and president- RP105 as an endogenous negative regulator of TLR signaling, elect (abdicated 2012), Society for Leukocyte Biology; fellow and the demonstration that allergenicity can result from and Program Committee member and chair, Infectious functional mimicry of TLR complex proteins. Diseases Society of America; past program chair, International Karp’s efforts at the Gates Foundation will focus primarily on Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society; Program and vaccines, including in the areas of malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Credentialing Committee member, American Society of neglected infectious diseases, polio, and diarrheal diseases. Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH); senior fellow, “The mission of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is American Asthma Foundation; and Sandoz Clinician Scientist incredible and the resources it brings to bear are formidable,” Award, John Hopkins University.

8 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org Karp is a member of the Association of American Physicians, Society for Pediatric Research, and American Society of Clinical Investigation; a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America; a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and American Board of Internal Medicine; and holder of the ASTMH Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health. A highest-honors and Phi Beta Kappa 2012 Life Sciences Salary graduate of Brandeis University, Karp Survey Underway; AAI Member received his M.D. from the University Participation Encouraged of North Carolina School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Rhode Wondering how your compensation compares with that of others Island Hospital/Brown University in your field? Now you can find out! Participate in “The Scientist and Georgetown University Hospital/ Survey of Salaries in the Life Sciences 2012,” which will compile Georgetown University, respectively. data for publication later this year on compensation for AAI He subsequently trained as a National members and those of other professional life sciences societies in Research Service Award fellow in the the United States. Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, In coordination with The Scientist, Magazine of the Life Sciences, NIH, and as a fellow in infectious diseases AAI encourages members again this year to take advantage of this at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School annual opportunity to derive and report reliable compensation of Medicine. Karp joined the JHU faculty information about scientists in our field and compare with other in 2003, rising to associate professor, related biomedical research disciplines. before joining Cincinnati Children’s This year’s web-based survey, open to all life scientists Hospital and the University of Cincinnati employed in the United States, calls for responses by Friday, as professor of pediatrics in 2000. June 22, 2012. Articles describing the results of the survey will be At the Gates Foundation, Karp will published in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist and on The- work with his predecessor, AAI member Scientist.com. Christopher B. Wilson, M.D., AAI ’84, Participation in the study is voluntary and will take who now serves the Gates Foundation approximately four minutes. To ensure that accurate and as director of discovery and translational representative results are collected, please answer all questions sciences in the global health program. To carefully and completely. All responses are confidential, view the AAI profile of Wilson that marked anonymous, and coded, and data from this research will be his 2009 Gates Foundation appointment, reported only in the aggregate. visit http://aai.org/About/Publications/ As a “thank you” for participation, all respondents who fill out AAI_Newsletter/PDFs/2010/AAI_ the survey by the June 22nd deadline may enter a drawing for one NL_2010-02.pdf#page=12. of three Amazon.com gift certificates worth $100. ǃǃ To take this year’s survey, visit https://www.surveymonkey. com/s/TSsalarysurvey2012. ǃǃ To address any question or issue in participating, visit http://www.the-scientist.com/salarysurvey. Thank you for your time and support of AAI in this important member service.

www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 9 AAI Summer Immunology Courses Set for July Advanced Course Moves to Boston

2012 AAI Introductory Course The AAI Introductory Course in Immunology will be held July 14-19, 2012, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The two-part course is targeted to students new to the discipline. Part I of the course (July 14-16) is a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of immunology suitable for students with a general biology background; Part II (July 17-19) is a clinically-oriented lecture series. Parts I and II may be taken independently. This always popular course has been held at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003 and will again convene in the auditorium of the Biomedical Research Building II/III (BRBII) on the University of Pennsylvania’s Medical School Says Berg: “We are excited about this summer’s Advanced Campus. The returning Course in Immunology and its relocation this year to Boston. course directors for Not only is the roster of lecturers outstanding, but the venue 2012 are Christopher for the course is a beautiful spot on the Boston waterfront. A. Hunter, University In addition to the notables available to us as local talent, we of Pennsylvania succeeded in enticing other world-renowned immunologists School of Veterinary from around the country to come and discuss the cutting-edge Medicine, and Terri M. research in their field. We look forward to welcoming attendees Laufer, University of in July!” Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Travel Support Participants in the Financial support for underrepresented minority scientists 2011 Introductory is available through the FASEB MARC program; details are Course called it an available via the URL below. In 2011, the FASEB MARC “excellent educational experience” and “a great and in-depth program supported the attendance of seven minority scientists introduction to important aspects of immunology.” Another to the AAI courses. course attendee said that “the speakers are inspiring because Following on its 2011 support, the International Union they exhibit such a level of enthusiasm, passion, [and] love for of Immunological Societies (IUIS) will again sponsor travel teaching.” awards for international trainees to attend the 2012 courses. Last year, IUIS sponsored three international trainees to each 2012 AAI Advanced Course of the AAI summer courses. The trainees hailed from India, The More advanced students should consider the AAI Advanced Gambia, Kenya, and France, and all found it to be an enriching Course in Immunology, set for July 29-August 3, 2012, in experience. They pointed to enhanced immunology knowledge Boston. This intensive course has a long history of serving gained from the outstanding lectures and from stimulating advanced trainees and scientists who wish to expand or discussions with other course participants during course update their understanding of the field. The course director breaks and social events. is Leslie J. Berg, University of Massachusetts Medical School. The course will convene at the Seaport World Trade Center Course Details, Additional Information located on the historic Boston harbor in the bustling Seaport ǃǃ The 2012 Introductory Course outline detailing the faculty District. The course draws its faculty of leading experts from the and topic lineup appears on p. 11 of this newsletter. The 2012 local immunology community of Boston-area universities, as Advanced Course outline appears on p. 17. well as from farther afield. ǃǃ Complete details on both AAI courses, and on FASEB MARC travel support, are available via the AAI web site at http://www.aai.org/Education/Courses.

10 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org 2012 Introductory Course in Immunology July 14–19, 2012 • The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Director: Christopher A. Hunter, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Co-Director: Terri M. Laufer, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Don’t miss the most comprehensive introduction to immunology available! This intensive two-part course, taught by world-renowned immunologists, provides a comprehensive overview of the basics of immunology. This course is for students new to the discipline or those seeking more information to complement general biology or science training. Part I (July 14–16) is a detailed introduction to the basic principles of immunology and is suitable for students with a general biology background. Part II (July 17–19) is a clinically oriented lecture series focusing on specialty areas. Parts I and II may be taken independently at the discretion of the student. Faculty Christopher A. Hunter, University of Pennsylvania Andrew J. Caton, The Wistar Institute School of Veterinary Medicine T and B Cell Tolerance Introduction to the Immune System Christopher A. Hunter, University of Pennsylvania Kathleen E. Sullivan, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia School of Veterinary Medicine Innate Immunity: Introduction to the Cells Cytokines Igor E. Brodsky, University of Pennsylvania Jonathan S. Maltzman, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine School of Medicine Innate Immunity: Introduction to Pattern Recognition Solid Organ Transplantation and Intracellular Signaling Cathryn Nagler, University of Chicago Jennifer A. Punt, Haverford College Mucosal Immunology Introduction to Adaptive Immunity David Artis, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Michael P. Cancro, University of Pennsylvania Type 2 Immunity and Parasite Infections School of Medicine Robert H. Vonderheide, University of Pennsylvania Clonal Selection and V(D)J Recombination (B Cell Centric) School of Medicine Terri M. Laufer, University of Pennsylvania Tumor Immunology School of Medicine Sunny Shin, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine MHC Restriction and Thymic Selection Immunity to Bacterial Pathogens Laurence C. Eisenlohr, Jefferson Medical College Carolina B. Lopez, University of Pennsylvania Antigen Processing and Presentation School of Veterinary Medicine Edward M. Behrens, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Immunity to Viruses Dendritic Cells: The Bridge Between Innate E. John Wherry, University of Pennsylvania and Adaptive Immunity School of Medicine Gary A. Koretzky, University of Pennsylvania Immunologic Memory School of Medicine David B. Weiner, University of Pennsylvania Signaling in the Immune System School of Medicine Gudrun Philomena Fiona Debes, University Vaccination of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Vijay K. Kuchroo, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Trafficking of Immune Cells Harvard Medical School Michael P. Cancro, University of Pennsylvania Autoimmunity School of Medicine Judy H. Cho, Yale School of Medicine B Cell Homeostasis, Activation, and Memory Formation Genetic Approaches to Immune-Mediated Diseases Ronald N. Germain, NIAID, NIH Andrew C. Chan, Genentech, Inc. Dynamic Intravital Imaging of the Immune System: Bench to Bedside to Bench: Current Issues Replacing Cartoons with Movies of the Real Thing in Immunology

For complete course details and registration, visit: www.aai.org/Education/Courses For assistance, contact (301) 634-7178 or [email protected]. Overseas applicants are advised to apply early for visas; for details, visit www.aai.org/Education/Courses/Visa.html. Financial support for underrepresented minority scientists is available through the FASEB MARC Program; for details, visit http://marc.faseb.org.

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AAI_CourseAds.indd 1 2/24/12 6:41:06 AM IN memoriam

Elizabeth (Betty) Mary Smithwick, M.D., AAI '75 1923–2011

The following remembrance of Elizabeth Elizabeth Smithwick joined AAI in 1975 Mary (Betty) Smithwick was authored by her and was an emeritus AAI member at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) time of her death last fall. The following colleague M. Eric Gershwin, M.D., AAI '76, obituary, published in The Sacramento for publication in the AAI Newsletter. AAI Bee from October 26 to 27, 2011, gratefully acknowledges the submission. appears here with the permission of that publication. Betty Smithwick was the epitome of a pediatrician, everyone’s loving grandmother. lizabeth Mary Smithwick, M.D., She entered medicine during the days of a passed away at her home in nearly man’s-only world and excelled at every ESacramento on Wednesday, step along the way, all the while devoting October 19, 2011, at the age of 88. Betty was born on January 20, herself to the children under her care. 1923, in Casco, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of John and Ann Wanting to see what research was like after Smithwick, and was the second youngest of seven children, five her graduation from college, Betty worked at brothers and one sister, all of whom preceded her in death. the bench for nearly 8 years before entering Betty graduated in 1943 from the University of Wisconsin with the University of Wisconsin Medical School in a B.S. degree in medical technology. For the next eight years, she 1951. Medical school was not financially easy worked in some of the best known laboratories in the country. for Betty; she came from a large family and Several of her mentors, including Lewis Thomas at the University supported herself as a medical technologist. of Minnesota, supported her decision to apply to medical school. Following graduation in 1955, second in her Women were not common applicants in those days. Nevertheless, class, and subsequent post-graduate medical she was accepted to the University of Wisconsin in 1951. Her skills education and pediatrics training, Betty as a medical technologist allowed her to support herself during her joined the faculty at Kings County Hospital medical education. She graduated in 1955, second in her class. in Brooklyn in 1959. There, one of her interns Smithwick completed her internship the following year at Kings was Michael (Spike) Miller. Spike remembered County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Her pediatric residency Betty as the best teacher of his life, something followed at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and Case Western that eventually brought her to UC Davis in Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1957–58, she worked at two hospitals 1982. in England, Queen Charlotte and Children’s Hospital, both in Smithwick was a well-published researcher London. She returned to Kings County Hospital in 1959 and spent who received numerous honors—but the next thirteen years directing the medical student education everything else paled in comparison to her role program at that institution. She received numerous awards and as a pediatric rheumatologist. I met Betty in recognition as an outstanding teacher throughout her career. 1982. Spike Miller had become our new chair In 1964, she took a hiatus from teaching and received of pediatrics at UC Davis. UC Davis was still specialized training in rheumatology in Dallas, Texas. She then a relatively young medical school and Spike returned to Kings County Hospital and established a rheumatology had recruited a group of rigorous young bench clinic and an immunology laboratory. In 1972, she was recruited scientists. Along with them, he recruited Betty by Robert Good to work at the Sloan-Kettering Immunobiology to help with pediatric education and especially Unit in New York City. She remained there for ten years doing to mentor the numerous young faculty. research and staffing the immunodeficiency clinic and published Betty proved to be far more than a fine many papers during this time. mentor and educator, however. She was the

12 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org Betty was recruited by the University of California, Davis, consummate doctor. At the annual American College in Sacramento to serve as professor of rheumatology and of Rheumatology meeting, Betty would walk around the immunology in the Department of Pediatrics in 1982. hallways with a list of problem patients and seek the advice Smithwick’s expertise, together with her dedicated and of anyone she could corner. Nothing was more important compassionate personality, brought twelve years of caring and to her than her children (patients). With her silver hair, her wonderful service to patients, students, and peers. She retired commanding knowledge of medicine, and her incredible in 1993 to travel and enjoy family and friends all over the world. compassion, everyone, no matter how busy, would stop Betty enjoyed good food, theater, and the company of her and let Betty bend their ear—all so that Betty could deliver friends. better clinical care. Betty leaves behind a large and loving family throughout the I have been chief of rheumatology at UC Davis for over country, friends, as well as former students and colleagues. She 30 years and a faculty member for nearly 40. I have never will always be remembered for her charm, wit, intelligence, met anyone else with the pathos, the patience, and the and especially her dedication to children. Remembrances in dedication of Betty Smithwick. She was truly one of a kind. her honor may be made to the UC Davis Children’s Hospital, UC Davis Health System, Health System Advancement, 4900 Eric Gershwin is Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Broadway, Suite 1150, Sacramento, CA 95820. Please make the Jack and Donald Chia Professor of Medicine, and checks payable to UC Regents. Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Read more online at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ Immunology, at the University of California, Davis. sacbee/obituary.aspx?n=elizabeth-mary-smithwick&pid=15426 9466#storylink=cpy

AAI offers condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of the following members whose deaths were recorded after the January-February 2012 AAI Newsletter acknowledgement of past-year deceased members.

Gernot Achatz, Ph.D. Morris Goodman, Ph.D. Elizabeth M. Smithwick, M.D. AAI '2010 AAI '53 AAI '75 Salzburg, Austria Detroit, Michigan Sacramento, California

Alain M. Bernard, M.D., Ph.D. John A. McIntyre, Ph.D. Galen B. Toews, M.D. AAI '76 AAI '75 AAI '83 Nice, France Beech Grove, Indiana Ann Arbor, Michigan

I. Leonard Bernstein, M.D. Katherine B. Pryzwansky, Ph.D. Jo Rae Wright, Ph.D. AAI '67 AAI '88 AAI '99 Cincinnati, Ohio Chapel Hill, North Carolina Durham, North Carolina

www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 13 IN memoriam

Galen B. Toews, M.D., AAI '83 1945–2011

The following tribute to Galen Toews, a past Division”), a position he held for nearly 25 member of the AAI Committee on Public Affairs, years. He was promoted to full professor in was authored by Toews’s colleagues Theodore 1991. Toews also held the appointment of staff J. Standiford, M.D., AAI '92, and Richard H. physician at the Veterans Affairs hospital and Simon, M.D., both of the Division of Pulmonary served as associate dean for research for the and Critical Medicine, University of Michigan University of Michigan Medical School from Hospital and Health Systems. The tribute appears 2006 to 2008. here with the permission of the authors. It is with great sadness that we mourn the Excellence in Research loss of Galen B. Toews, M.D., who passed away Toews was a leader in the field of respiratory on October 12, 2011, after a prolonged illness. research for over 30 years. Toews was truly Galen was our division chief and an integral one of the pioneers of lung immunology, with part of the Michigan community for nearly 25 his earliest research focused on phagocyte years. Toews was a true visionary in the pulmonary community recruitment and pulmonary immune responses. Using and in building the pulmonary division at the University of models in the skin and lung, he was one of the first scientists Michigan. Galen led with passion, professionalism, and dignity. to describe locations and functions of what we now know He forever impacted the lives and careers of all of us. We have as dendritic cells. His work was seminal in describing lost a friend, a colleague, and an inspirational leader. He will be the co-stimulatory properties of antigen presenting cells, greatly missed. particularly in the lung, and for understanding their role in While Galen left his mark in many facets of pulmonary graft rejection. He was one of the first to understand the unique medicine, it is difficult to fully grasp the magnitude of his many immunological differences between alveolar macrophages and contributions. We have highlighted but a few of his academic dendritic cells. He was well known for his work in the field of and personal achievements. host defense against Cryptococcus neoformans which spanned over 20 years. Starting in 1995, Toews embarked on research alen was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on to unravel basic pathogenic mechanisms in interstitial lung November 26, 1945. One month after Galen was disease, particularly idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He Gborn, the Toews returned to their family farm in fostered collaborations between basic and clinical investigators Kremlin, Oklahoma, where they lived for the remainder of at the University of Michigan to create a Specialized Center of Galen’s childhood. Galen referred frequently to the many Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) in IPF, a program which life lessons he learned while raising a flock of sheep on the was funded for 10 years by the National Institutes of Health. As farm. He graduated from Kremlin High School, and then from chief, he was also instrumental in the PCCM Division receiving Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, with a bachelor’s degree SCCOR grants for specialized clinical research in the areas of in biology and chemistry in 1967. Toews graduated from the acute lung injury and host defense and a grand opportunity University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in 1971 and then RC2 grant in IPF. Indicative of his prominence in the field, completed his internship and residency in internal medicine Toews was selected to serve as the head of the IPFnet clinical at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He completed trial consortium. His efforts made the University of Michigan a pulmonary fellowship at what is now the University of Texas one of the premier institutions for the diagnosis and treatment Southwestern (UT Southwestern) Medical Center in Dallas in of IPF. This was accomplished while successfully funding 1978 and continued his postdoctoral training by performing his own research interests for over 30 years and contributing a fellowship in immunology at that same institution. Toews over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 47 book chapters, and joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in 1979, rising to the over 275 conference abstracts to our collective understanding rank of associate professor. In 1987, he moved to the University of pulmonary disease. His investigative contributions were of Michigan where he was named chief of the Division of appropriately recognized by his election to the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (hereafter, “the PCCM American Physicians in 1997.

14 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org Excellence in Education that patient care comes first. His creation of multidisciplinary As mentioned above, Toews was instrumental in guiding many translational research programs facilitated the development of the collaborative investigative projects within the PCCM of disease-specific clinical care programs in IPF, sarcoidosis, Division, but perhaps some of his greatest achievements came COPD, and lung transplantation. Toews was a skilled clinician in his role as an educator and mentor. Soon after arriving and exceptional role model as a physician-scientist. In at Michigan, Toews successfully acquired a T32 fellowship recognition of his major contributions to the areas of research, training grant, a program that has been continuously funded education, clinical care, and service, Toews was awarded for almost 20 years and has supported the initial careers of the Paul De Kruif Lifetime Achievement Award from the nearly 100 scientists. Toews was instrumental in forging a path Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan for basic science faculty within the clinical departments at and the Michigan Thoracic Society’s Bruce H. Douglas Award the medical school. He recruited a number of talented Ph.D. for contributions to pulmonary medicine. investigators to the PCCM Division and their success and his lobbying helped change the rules within the Department Excellence in Advocacy of Medicine to allow the appointment of these scientists Toews excelled in the area of advocacy. Most notably, many to the tenure track. Additionally, Toews had the foresight of these activities evolved from his vigorous participation in to understand the need for appropriately trained clinical the ATS and as a member of its AII assembly. From 1997 to investigators in respiratory research. To accomplish this, he 2000 and again beginning in 2007, he served as a member developed a clinical research track that had at its foundation a and chairperson of the ATS committee for research advocacy. Master’s Program in Clinical Research Design and Statistical From 1991 to 1997, he served as a member of the American Analysis through the School of Public Health. This program has Association of Immunologists Committee on Public Affairs. He been so successful that pulmonary divisions throughout the lobbied NIH to provide support for respiratory disease research country have used it as a template for patient-oriented research and was involved in national organizations to promote lung training in their own divisions. He served as a clinical mentor research, including the American Lung Association and local for numerous medical students, interns and fellows. Toews thoracic society organizations. He also assumed a prominent trained an outstanding cadre of academic researchers. He role in advocating for research and patient care through the mentored over 30 postdoctoral fellows who remain in academic VA system. Examples of that role included Toews’s selection medicine. Included among these are a number of trainees as the spokesperson for the Friends of VA (FOVA) Medical who are themselves division chiefs or department chairs. Care and Health Research, a collation of 79 medical research, Galen was a visiting professor, invited speaker or moderator specialty, physician, academic, patient advocacy, and industry at over 30 international locations, and delivered well over 100 organizations committed to quality care for veterans, to present invited talks within the United States. Clearly, Toews brought testimony to Congress in 2005 to support funding for the VA distinction to himself and the University of Michigan via his missions. He again lobbied Congress in 2007 to support the scholarship. He also served as the program committee chair VA medical and prosthetic research program, and in 2009 he for the Allergy, Immunology, and Inflammation (AII) assembly provided testimony before the House military construction and within the American Thoracic Society (ATS) both in 1983 and VA appropriations sub-committee in Congress to lobby against 1989. In that way, he influenced the educational offerings for budget cuts. Because of his tireless efforts on behalf of the ATS the international conference over a four-year period. and the pulmonary community in general, he was awarded the ATS Parker B. Francis Award for Outstanding Contributions to Excellence in Clinical Care the Advancement of Respiratory Medicine and Science. As Chief of the PCCM Division, Toews oversaw many changes As a member of numerous NIH study sections, foundation in the practice of medicine, including composition of the and institutional scientific advisory panels, and NIH clinical care teams, changes in duty hours for fellows and workshops, Toews had a major impact on the direction of residents, and reorganization of clinical services. Throughout respiratory research, education, and clinical care in this these changes, Toews was true to his overarching mandate country and abroad. Galen led grass-roots fundraising efforts

www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 15 ImmunoCasts C to raise awareness and research dollars for lung disease, in Here is the link to the most recentThe news Journalreport: particular for IPF research. http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/pulmonary-toews-1013.of Immunology The URL for online giving on is http://www.giving.umich.edu/your schedule Galen Toews, the Person give/intmed. To select The Galen B. Toews Professorship in Galen Toews lived a very full life. In addition to his academic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, click Search Funds and pursuits, he enjoyed traveling to all parts of the world, then enter key words Galen B. Toews in the "Search or filter by especially Ukraine, the birthplace of his grandparents. He keyword" box. cherished reading and collecting books particularly on Russian The addressImmunoCasts for giving is: Thehighlight Galen B.the Toews Professorship Mennonite history. He loved to read about history, science, the in Pulmonaryvery and best Critical articles Care published Medicine, Department in of American west, and farming. Galen savored fine food and fine InternalThe Medicine Journal Development of Immunology Office, (The 1000 JI)Oakbrook Drive, wine. He was passionate about all sports, especially football. Suite 100,in Ann downloadable Arbor, MI 48104-6794. audio format. With the notable exception of games matching his Oklahoma Checks are to be made out to “University of Michigan” a Sooners and the Wolverines, he was a true Michigan man. MichiganListen 501(c)(3) to the non-profit journal’s corporation. In This Issue Galen enjoyed hiking the Colorado peaks near his Breckenridge A servicesection celebrating during Galen’s your life commute, was held at St. Luke’s home. He was happiest at high altitudes. Above all, he was a Lutheran Church,workout, Ann orArbor, while Michigan, on travel. at 10:30 a.m. on great storyteller. Monday, October 17, 2011. A reception followed at the Gerald Galen was a man of strong faith. He was a life-long member R. Ford PresidentialVisit LibraryThe JI on online the North at Campus of the of the Mennonite Church and was actively involved at Shalom University ofhttp://www.jimmunol.org/ Michigan at 12 noon. Community Church, a Mennonite and Church of the Brethren and click the ImmunoCast icon. congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was also a founding member of the Dallas Peace Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to peace education, peace research, and action from a Christian perspective. This venture was one of his proudest ImmunoCasts C F accomplishments. The Journal He is survived by his wife Anita, son Mark Galen Toews, of Immunology daughter-in-law Regan Graves Toews, three grandchildren, ) F! on your schedule Henry Galen Toews, Lucas Ames Toews, and Zadie Matilda ! Toews of Brooklyn, New York, and two brothers, Arrel (Kathy) Toews of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Myron (Barbara) ImmunoCasts Toews of Omaha, Nebraska. They will all miss this man who highlightImmunoCasts the very best articles highlight published the in was full of life and filled with humor. the Journalvery best of articlesImmunology published (the in JI) ) in audioThe Journalformat. of Immunology (The JI) The Galen B. Toews Professorship in Pulmonary and in downloadable audioListen format.to the journal’s Critical Care Medicine In This Issue section In honor of his innumerable contributions to pulmonary Listen to the journal’sduring In This your Issuecommute, medicine at the University of Michigan, we are working with his section duringworkout, your commute, or while on travel! family toward establishing The Galen B. Toews Professorship workout, or whileVisit on thetravel. JI online at in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. This will be the first  www.jimmunol.org and endowed professorship established within the PCCM Division, Visit Theclick JI the online ImmunoCasts at icon. and will be used to support an outstanding investigator who http://www.jimmunol.org/ shares Galen’s passion for research, advocacy, and clinical care. ImmunoCastsand click the are ImmunoCast also available icon. There is much work to do to reach our goal, but we can think of no one more deserving of this honor than Galen Toews. free on iTunes!

16 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org 2012 Advanced Course in Immunology July 29–August 3, 2012 • Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts Course Director: Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School AAI Educational Programs Manager: Mary T. Litzinger, Ph.D.

Don’t miss the premier course in immunology for research scientists! This intensive course is directed toward advanced trainees and scientists who wish to expand or update their understanding of the field. Leading experts will present recent advances in the biology of the immune system and address its role in health and disease. This is not an introductory course; attendees will need to have a firm understanding of the principles of immunology.

Faculty Marc K. Jenkins, Center for Immunology, Susan M. Kaech, Yale School of Medicine University of Minnesota Medical School Lymphocyte Memory Anatomy of the Immune Response Arthur Weiss, University of California, Christine A. Biron, Brown University San Francisco Innate Immunity Signaling from Antigen Receptors Wayne M. Yokoyama, Washington University Charlotte S. Kaetzel, University of Kentucky School of Medicine College of Medicine NK Cells —Their Receptors and Function Mucosal Immunity in Health and Disease JoAnne L. Flynn, University of Pittsburgh Andrea M. Cooper, Trudeau Institute School of Medicine Molecular and Cellular Mediators Immune Response to Pathogens of Inflammation Pamela S. Ohashi, Ontario Cancer Institute, Shannon J. Turley, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, University of Toronto Harvard Medical School Tolerance Dendritic Cells Betty A. Diamond, The Feinstein Institute Eugene M. Oltz, Washington University School for Medical Research of Medicine Autoimmunity The Generation and Modification Robert Schreiber, Washington University of Lymphocyte Antigen Receptor Genes School of Medicine Shiv Pillai, Massachusetts General Hospital Tumor Immunology Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School Jack A. Elias, Yale School of Medicine B Cell Development New Concepts in the Pathogenesis of Asthma Ellen A. Robey, University of California, Berkeley Raif Geha, Children’s Hospital Boston, T Cell Development Harvard Medical School Ulrich H. von Andrian, Harvard Medical School Immunodeficiencies: How to Find Them Lymphocyte Trafficking Mary Collins, Pfizer (ret.) Kenneth L. Rock, University of Massachusetts Immunotherapeutics Medical School Dan H. Barouch, Beth Israel Deaconess MHC-Restricted Antigen Presentation Medical Center, Harvard Medical School to T Cells Vaccines

For complete course details and registration, visit: www.aai.org/Education/Courses For assistance, contact (301) 634-7178 or [email protected]. Overseas applicants are advised to apply early for visas; for details, visit www.aai.org/Education/ Courses/Visa.html. Financial support for underrepresented minority scientists is available through the FASEB MARC Program; for details, visit http://marc.faseb.org.

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AAI_CourseAds.indd 2 4/3/12 5:53:40 AM 2012 aai trainee achievement and early/mid-career faculty awards

Pfizer-showell travel award

To recognize the professional promise of an early-career investigator Support for this award is generously provided through an endowment from Henry J. Showell. Joseph C. Sun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

chambers-eBioscience memorial award

To advance the career of an early-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting for the purpose of presenting immunology research specifically in the area of cancer biology Support for this award has been generously provided by eBioscience, Inc. Rajesh K. Sharma, Ph.D. Instructor University of Louisville

lustgarten-eBioscience memorial award

To advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding abstract specifically in the area of immune regulation Support for this award has been generously provided by eBioscience, Inc. Lihua Chen, Ph.D. Professor Fourth Military Medical University, China

aai-life technologies trainee achievement awards

To recognize promising trainees in the field of immunology Support for these awards has been generously provided by Life Technologies Corporation.

Burton E. Barnett Rebecca Mathew, Ph.D. Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine University of Chicago Jarish N. Cohen Caroline J. Padro Graduate Student Graduate Student University of Virginia Ohio State University Chao Ma Jakob von Moltke Graduate Student Graduate Student California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley

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awarded to aai trainee members (students and postdoctoral fellows) whose Pfizer-showell travel award first-author abstracts are selected for presentation in aai Block symposia Support in part for these awards has been generously provided by AllCells, Amnis Corp., BD Biosciences, To recognize the professional promise of an early-career investigator Genocea Biosciences, IMGENEX Corp., and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Support for this award is generously provided through nandini acharya maureen cox Gonghua huang, Ph.d.* donald w. lawrence, Ph.d. an endowment from Henry J. Showell. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. univ. of Alabama, Birmingham St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. Saint louis univ. debarati Banik erika J. crosby weishan huang catalina lee-chang, Ph.d. Joseph C. Sun, Ph.D. Roswell Park Cancer inst. univ. of Pennsylvania Cornell univ. niA, niH Assistant Professor Burton e. Barnett Glenn cruse, Ph.d. uzoma K. iheagwara hong lei, Ph.d. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center univ. of Pennsylvania niH univ. of Pittsburgh natl. Jewish Hlth. allison Beal, Ph.d. weiguo cui, Ph.d. noriho iida, Ph.d. haiyan s. li, Ph.d. The Children’s Hosp. of Philadelphia yale univ. nCi, niH mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. chambers-eBioscience memorial award dominic r. Beal Paul m. d’agostino, Ph.d. rukhsana Jabeen, Ph.d. hui li, m.d., Ph.d. Boston univ. Sch. of med. Rockefeller univ. indiana univ. Sch. of med. univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. To advance the career of an early-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting for the purpose anna Belkina, m.d. maria e. de Obaldia nitya Jain, Ph.d. Jun li, Ph.d. of presenting immunology research specifically in the area of cancer biology Boston univ. Sch. of med. univ. of Pennsylvania univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. univ. of Alabama, Birmingham alexandre P. Bénéchet dzana dervovic Preethi Janardhanan* lenong li, Ph.d. Support for this award has been generously provided by eBioscience, Inc. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Sunnybrook Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of Texas at San Antonio univ. of illinois at Chicago natalie a. Bezman, Ph.d. Priyadharshini devarajan sihyug Jang song li, m.d. Rajesh K. Sharma, Ph.D. univ. of California, San Francisco univ. of miami, miller Sch. of med. univ. of michigan univ. of nebraska med. Ctr. Instructor Zhen Bian, Ph.d. yanna ding david c. Jay, Ph.d. yajuan li, Ph.d. University of Louisville georgia State univ. univ. of Alabama, Birmingham univ. of utah univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. david a. Blair, Ph.d. Joseph s. dolina Junbae Jee, Ph.d. ann J. ligocki* new york univ. Sch. of med. univ. of Virginia ohio State univ. univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. lustgarten-eBioscience memorial award monica Bodogai, Ph.d. claudia X. dominguez silke G. h. Jennrich, Ph.d. fanching lin, Ph.d. niA, niH yale Sch. of med. univ. of Pennsylvania nCi, niH To advance the career of a mid-career scientist who attends the AAI annual meeting and presents an outstanding anthony J. Bonito marei dose, Ph.d. christopher m. Jewell, Ph.d. wai w. lin abstract specifically in the area of immune regulation mount Sinai Sch. of med. univ. of Chicago massachusetts inst. of Technol. univ. of iowa astrid Bonnegarde Jarrod a. dudakov, Ph.d. niannian Ji, Ph.d.* yen-yu lin* Support for this award has been generously provided by eBioscience, Inc. ohio State univ. mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. univ. of Texas at San Antonio Duke univ. timothy J. Break Jaikumar duraiswamy, Ph.d. Pehga f. Johnston chaohong liu, Ph.d. Lihua Chen, Ph.D. univ. of north Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of med. loyola univ. Chicago univ. of maryland Professor de-xiu Bu, m.d., Ph.d. david m. elliott Jessica Jopek ashbaugh* haiyun liu, Ph.d. Fourth Military Medical University, China Brigham and Women’s Hosp. univ. of South Carolina Sch. of med. univ. of miami georgia Hlth. Sci. univ. claire m. Buchta Kalamo s. farley, Ph.d. lakshmi Kannan, Ph.d. houpu liu univ. of iowa immune Dis. inst., Harvard med. Sch. Beth israel Deaconess med. Ctr. univ. of Texas med. Branch aai-life technologies trainee achievement awards Katelyn t. Byrne taylor J. feehley mausita Karmakar Jianyun liu, Ph.d. Dartmouth med. Sch. univ. of Chicago Case Western Reserve univ. indiana univ. Sch. of med. To recognize promising trainees in the field of immunology lindsey e. carlin daniel t. fisher, Ph.d. Jenny m. Karo Jing liu, Ph.d. univ. of iowa Roswell Park Cancer inst. mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. Wright State univ. Support for these awards has been generously provided by Life Technologies Corporation. caglar cekic, Ph.d. rachel Gibbons Peter Keyel, Ph.d. ying-chun lo la Jolla inst. for Allergy and immunol. mayo graduate Sch. univ. of Pittsburgh Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. Burton E. Barnett Rebecca Mathew, Ph.D. Kuldeep s. chattha, d.v.m., Ph.d. samuel t. haile mike Khan devin lowe, Ph.d. ohio State univ. univ. of maryland, Baltimore univ. of Wisconsin-madison univ. of Pittsburgh med. Ctr. Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow irene chernova laila-aicha hanafi stanislav v. Khoruzhenko, m.d. christopher r. lucas University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine University of Chicago univ. of Pennsylvania univ. of montreal Johns Hopkins univ. ohio State univ. yen-ling chiu alan hanash, m.d., Ph.d. Kerstin Kiefer, Ph.d. veronika lukacs-Kornek, m.d., Jarish N. Cohen Caroline J. Padro Johns Hopkins univ. mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Ph.d. Graduate Student Graduate Student John s. cho, Ph.d. Jessica m. haverkamp, Ph.d. sook young Kim Dana-Farber Cancer inst. University of Virginia Ohio State University univ. of California, los Angeles St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. yonsei univ. Col. of med. lydia lynch, Ph.d. sun-mi choi christian m. hedrich, m.d. irina Kochetkova, m.d. Harvard med. Sch. Chao Ma Jakob von Moltke louisiana State univ. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. montana State univ. chao ma Graduate Student Graduate Student Olesya y. chornoguz sarah henrickson, Ph.d. chandana Koorella California inst. of Technol. California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley univ. of maryland, Baltimore Harvard med. Sch. Roswell Park Cancer inst. sharline madera Kaushik choudhuri curtis J. henry, Ph.d. Pavel Kopach, m.d. Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, new york univ. Sch. of med. univ. of Colorado Sch. of med. univ. of maryland Sloan-Kettering Tri-institutional dustin cobb Kiyoshi hirahara, m.d., Ph.d. lee Kozakiewicz shawn mahmud Virginia Commonwealth univ. niAmS, niH Albert Einstein Col. of med. univ. of minnesota Jarish n. cohen christopher G. horton sanjeev Kumar, Ph.d. michael K. mansour, m.d., Ph.d. univ. of Virginia oklahoma med. Res. Fndn. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. massachusetts gen. Hosp. sara l. colpitts wei hu masayuki Kuraoka, Ph.d. francesco marangoni, Ph.d. univ. of Connecticut univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. Duke univ. massachusetts gen. Hosp. amy n. courtney, Ph.d. yinghong hu marvin a. lai andrew h. marple Baylor Col. of med. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. univ. of Washington umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. *Awards for abstracts on certain research topics relevant to multiple sclerosis supported by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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nikki B. marshall, Ph.d. valentine K. Ongeri John r. sedy, Ph.d. sarah e. vaughan Support in part for these awards has been generously provided by BD Biosciences and Cell Signaling Technology. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Baylor Col. of med. Sanford-Burnham med. Res. inst. lovelace Resp. Res. inst. christopher martin Jot hui Ooi Joanne l. shaw, Ph.d. shilpi verma, Ph.d. The Scripps Res. inst. Pennsylvania State univ. univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at Houston la Jolla inst. for Allergy and immunol. maureen ajuebor, Ph.d. yuanpu Peter di, Ph.d. martina Kovarova, Ph.d. Joshua J. Obar, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Assistant Professor rebecca mathew, Ph.d. caroline J. Padro wei shen, m.d., Ph.d. Kaitlyn m. vernier louisiana State univ. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of Pittsburgh univ. of north Carolina, Chapel Hill montana State univ. univ. of Chicago ohio State univ. nCi, niH univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Pornpimon angkasekwinai, Ph.d. haidong dong, m.d., Ph.d. shelley m. lawrence, m.d. Kevin c. O’connor, Ph.d. Joshua t. mattila, Ph.d. yfke Pasman Brian s. sheridan, Ph.d. Priyanka vijayan nair lecturer Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor univ. of Pittsburgh univ. of guelph univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. mount Sinai Sch. of med. Thammasat univ. mayo Clin. Col. of med. univ. of oklahoma yale Sch. of med. amanda f. mccabe nirav d. Patel lewis Z. shi, Ph.d. monica viladomiu K. mark ansel, Ph.d. lauren i.r. ehrlich, Ph.d. sujin lee, Ph.d. michelle a. Parent, Ph.d. Albany med. Col. umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. Virginia Bioinformat. inst. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Jorge l. medina nikolaos e. Patsoukis, Ph.d. hyunmu shin, Ph.d. Jakob h. von moltke univ. of California, San Francisco univ. of Texas at Austin Emory univ. Sch. of med. univ. of Delaware univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Harvard univ., Beth israel Deaconess univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. univ. of California, Berkeley Jason lees, Ph.d. at San Antonio med. Ctr. anne l. astier, Ph.d. vitaly v. Ganusov, Ph.d. dane Parker, d.O., Ph.d. Kari a. shirey, Ph.d. Jeffrey m. walch RCuK Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Research Scientist Pooja c. mehta Kristen e. Pauken univ. of maryland, Baltimore univ. of Pittsburgh univ. of Edinburgh univ. of Tennessee univ. of maryland Sch. of med. Columbia univ. Baylor Col. of med. univ. of minnesota cara skon ling wang, m.d., Ph.d. Xiaoyong Bao, Ph.d. scott a. Gerber, Ph.d. cheng-rui li, m.d., Ph.d. Kevin d. Pavelko, Ph.d. heather J. melichar, Ph.d. Pablo a. Penaloza-macmaster univ. of minnesota univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Staff Scientist Assistant Professor univ. of California, Berkeley Harvard univ., Beth israel Deaconess myoungsun son, Ph.d. Kayla a. weiss univ. of Texas med. Br. univ. of Rochester med. Ctr. Sanford-Burnham med. Res. inst. mayo Clin. Col. of med. med. Ctr. michelle n. messmer The Feinstein inst. for med. Res. univ. of iowa Betsy J. Barnes, Ph.d. Gregorio Gomez, Ph.d. Jianguo liu, m.d., Ph.d. Kimberly J. Payne, Ph.d. univ. of Pittsburgh cristina Penaranda, Ph.d. Joo hye song Brian m. weist Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor ryan d. michalek, Ph.d.* univ. of California, San Francisco massachusetts gen. Hosp. univ. of California, irvine umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. Virginia Commonwealth univ. Saint louis univ. Sch. of med. loma linda univ. Duke univ. cheng Peng charles t. spencer, Ph.d. Jesse w. williams robert a. Barrington, Ph.d. anton Gorbachev, Ph.d. Philip t. liu, Ph.d. adrian m. Piliponsky, Ph.d. Jeffrey h. mills, Ph.d.* Hunter Col. and the grad. Ctr. Vanderbilt univ. univ. of Chicago Assistant Professor instructor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of the City univ. of South Alabama Cleveland Clin. univ. of California, los Angeles Seattle Children’s Res. inst., Cornell univ. emily K. stefanov tim willinger, m.d., Ph.d. univ. of Washington Paria mirmonsef, Ph.d. meghan Pennini, Ph.d. univ. of Alabama, Birmingham yale Sch. of med. linda B. Baughn, Ph.d. Beichu Guo, Ph.d. Jennifer m. lund, Ph.d. univ. of maryland, Baltimore Assistant member Rush univ. med. Ctr. tom li stephen, Ph.d. elizabeth wilson, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor vadim i. Pivniouk, Ph.d. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr. tomomitsu miyasaka abdul mohammad Pezeshki Wistar inst. univ. of California, los Angeles univ. of minnesota med. univ. of South Carolina Assistant Professor univ. of montreal amber u. luong, m.d., Ph.d. univ. of Arizona Tohoku univ. grad. Sch. of med. Gretta stritesky, Ph.d. eric wong igor m. Belyakov, m.d., Ph.d. Karen t. hastings, Ph.d. Assistant Professor andrew J. monteith Jeon Pilhyun, Ph.d. univ. of minnesota Thomas Jefferson univ. Research Assistant Professor Assistant Professor martin Prlic, Ph.d. Hallym univ. univ. of michigan med. Sch. univ. of Arizona univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at Houston Assistant member univ. of north Carolina, Chapel Hill Jamie l. sturgill, Ph.d. Jeffrey l. wong Katherine c. macnamara, Ph.d. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr. James J. moon, Ph.d. Barbara Platzer, Ph.d. Virginia Commonwealth univ. univ. of Pittsburgh steven Bensinger, Ph.d., v.m.d. Jodi f. hedges, Ph.d. Assistant Professor massachusetts inst. of Technol. Children’s Hosp. Boston Assistant Professor Assistant Research Professor Ziaur rahman, m.d., Ph.d. Kuei-ying su, m.d. yanbao Xiong, Ph.d. Albany med. Col. courtney r. Plumlee, Ph.d. univ. of California, los Angeles montana State univ. Research Assistant Professor Johanna K. morales, Ph.d. Duke univ. med. Ctr. univ. of maryland, Baltimore Thomas Jefferson univ. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. rance e. Berg, Ph.d. venkatesh l. hegde, Ph.d. alicia r. mathers, Ph.d. Virginia Commonwealth univ. Jung hwan sung, Ph.d. Jiabin yan, Ph.d. yuri O. Poluektov Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Govindarajan rajagopalan, d.v.m., ian r. morris Harvard med. Sch. univ. of maryland, Baltimore univ. of north Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of South Carolina Sch. of med. univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of med. Ph.d. univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. agnieszka m. szymula chiaowen yang, Ph.d. alina c. Boesteanu, Ph.d. nicola m. heller, Ph.d. maureen a. mcGargill, Ph.d. Assistant Professor at San Antonio filippos Porichis, Ph.d. univ. of Virginia Washington univ. mayo Clin. Ragon institute of mgH, miT, Harvard Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant member sumanta mukherjee, Ph.d. Kentaro takahashi, m.d., Ph.d. mei-ling yang, Ph.d. Drexel univ. Col. of med. Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. lisa K. ryan, Ph.d. univ. of michigan hari hara s.K. Potula, Ph.d. grad. Sch. of med., Chiba univ. yale univ. Assistant Professor univ. of Florida ramireddy Bommireddy, Ph.d. wanqiu hou, Ph.d. mandy J. mcGeachy, Ph.d. megan e. murray stephenie m. takahashi, m.d. min yang, m.d. Research Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Researcher Assistant Professor umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. Roswell Park Cancer inst. Zhijuan Qiu univ. of Chicago med. Ctr. univ. of Hong Kong univ. of Arizona univ. of California, los Angeles univ. of Pittsburgh surojit sarkar, Ph.d. Kavitha narayan, Ph.d. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Oezcan talay, Ph.d. Jennifer l. yates david G. Brooks, Ph.d. hui hu, Ph.d. robert J. mcKallip, Ph.d. Assistant Professor univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Buvana ravishankar genentech, inc. Wadsworth Ctr. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Pennsylvania State univ. georgia Hlth Sci. univ. nicole m. nasholm Jenny m. tam, Ph.d. Jian ye, Ph.d. univ. of California, los Angeles The Wistar inst. mercer univ. Sch. of med. ram savan, Ph.d. niH avijit ray, Ph.d.* Assistant Professor massachusetts gen. Hosp., Saint louis univ. ling cao, m.d., Ph.d. demelza J. ireland, Ph.d. Karl Kai mcKinstry, Ph.d. Blood Res. inst., BloodCenter debasis nayak, Ph.d. Harvard med. Sch. Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor instructor univ. of Washington of Wisconsin catherine c. yin ninDS, niH eric tewalt, Ph.d. univ. of massachusetts, Worcester univ. of new England univ. of Western Australia univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. hilde schjerven, Ph.d. dawn K. reichenbach Assistant Project Scientist michael P. nelson univ. of Virginia svetlana P. chapoval, m.d., Ph.d. dawn m. Jelley-Gibbs, Ph.d. andrei medvedev, Ph.d. univ. of Pittsburgh yiming yin univ. of California, los Angeles univ. of Alabama, Birmingham Poonam tewary, Ph.d. univ. of Florida Assistant Professor Research Assistant member Assistant Professor ryan w. nelson d.c. rios niH univ. of maryland Sch. of med. Trudeau inst. univ. of maryland, Baltimore nathalie scholler, m.d., Ph.d. Emory univ. minjun yu, Ph.d. Assistant Professor univ. of minnesota med. Sch. melissa y. tjota Columbia univ. devavani chatterjea, Ph.d. cong Jin, Ph.d. Joshua mezrich, m.d. claudia rival, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of med. evan w. newell, Ph.d. univ. of Chicago damien J. Zanker Stanford univ. univ. of Virginia macalester Col. natl. inst. of Viral Dis. Control and univ. of Wisconsin-madison sarita sehra, Ph.d. Prabhanshu tripathi, Ph.d. ludwig inst. for Cancer Res. Prevention, China CDC soma rohatgi, Ph.d. Jayajit das, Ph.d. manoj K. mishra, Ph.d. Research Assistant Professor spencer ng univ. of Chicago huiyuan Zhang, m.d., Ph.d. indiana univ. Sch. of med. Albert Einstein Col. of med. Assistant Professor Peggy l. Kendall, m.d. Assistant Professor Emory univ. aaron J. tyznik, Ph.d. mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. Res. inst. at the nationwide Children’s Assistant Professor Alabama State univ. anil shanker, Ph.d. sze-ling ng, Ph.d.* Brian r. rosborough la Jolla inst. for Allergy and immunol. yongliang Zhang, Ph.d. Hosp. and ohio State univ. Vanderbilt univ. med. Ctr. Assistant Professor Harvard univ. univ. of Pittsburgh emiko mizoguchi, m.d., Ph.d. vaibhav upadhyay med. univ. of South Carolina meharry med. Col. Sch. of med. Guo-min deng, m.d., Ph.d. Kamal m. Khanna, Ph.d. Assistant Professor atsushi nishida melanie r. rutkowski, Ph.d. univ. of Chicago yun Zhao, m.d., Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor massachusetts gen. Hosp., michiko shimoda, Ph.d. massachusetts gen. Hosp. Wistar inst. stina l. urban massachusetts gen. Hosp. Harvard med. Sch., Beth israel univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. Assistant Professor shaun m. O Brien sean O. ryan, Ph.d. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Bo Zhong, Ph.d. Deaconess med. Ctr. srinivas nagaraj, Ph.d. georgia Hlth. Sci. univ. univ. of Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve univ. Gilbert r. Kinsey, Pharm.d., Ph.d. Zachary c. vanGundy mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. Assistant Professor of Research Assistant Professor robert saddawi-Konefka Zhongbin deng, Ph.d. tahiro taekwang shin, m.d., Ph.d. hope O’donnell ohio State univ. min Zhu, d.d.s. instructor, Assistant Research Scientist univ. of Virginia univ. of South Florida Assistant Professor univ. of California, Davis univ. of California, San Diego trupti d. vardam, Ph.d. Boston univ. univ. of louisville roza i. nurieva, Ph.d. univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Kaori sakuishi, m.d., Ph.d. Kimberly d. Klonowski, Ph.d. Javier G. Ogembo, Ph.d. Roswell Park Cancer inst. Assistant Professor at San Antonio Brigham and Women’s Hosp., Bernd Zinselmeyer, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Harvard univ., Beth israel Deaconess mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. Bindu varghese, d.O., Ph.d. ninDS, niH univ. of georgia med. Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. Jason l. O’loughlin, Ph.d. John c. schwartz univ. of oklahoma Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of minnesota

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nikki B. marshall, Ph.d. valentine K. Ongeri John r. sedy, Ph.d. sarah e. vaughan Support in part for these awards has been generously provided by BD Biosciences and Cell Signaling Technology. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Baylor Col. of med. Sanford-Burnham med. Res. inst. lovelace Resp. Res. inst. christopher martin Jot hui Ooi Joanne l. shaw, Ph.d. shilpi verma, Ph.d. The Scripps Res. inst. Pennsylvania State univ. univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at Houston la Jolla inst. for Allergy and immunol. maureen ajuebor, Ph.d. yuanpu Peter di, Ph.d. martina Kovarova, Ph.d. Joshua J. Obar, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Assistant Professor rebecca mathew, Ph.d. caroline J. Padro wei shen, m.d., Ph.d. Kaitlyn m. vernier louisiana State univ. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of Pittsburgh univ. of north Carolina, Chapel Hill montana State univ. univ. of Chicago ohio State univ. nCi, niH univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Pornpimon angkasekwinai, Ph.d. haidong dong, m.d., Ph.d. shelley m. lawrence, m.d. Kevin c. O’connor, Ph.d. Joshua t. mattila, Ph.d. yfke Pasman Brian s. sheridan, Ph.d. Priyanka vijayan nair lecturer Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor univ. of Pittsburgh univ. of guelph univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. mount Sinai Sch. of med. Thammasat univ. mayo Clin. Col. of med. univ. of oklahoma yale Sch. of med. amanda f. mccabe nirav d. Patel lewis Z. shi, Ph.d. monica viladomiu K. mark ansel, Ph.d. lauren i.r. ehrlich, Ph.d. sujin lee, Ph.d. michelle a. Parent, Ph.d. Albany med. Col. umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. Virginia Bioinformat. inst. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Jorge l. medina nikolaos e. Patsoukis, Ph.d. hyunmu shin, Ph.d. Jakob h. von moltke univ. of California, San Francisco univ. of Texas at Austin Emory univ. Sch. of med. univ. of Delaware univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Harvard univ., Beth israel Deaconess univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. univ. of California, Berkeley Jason lees, Ph.d. at San Antonio med. Ctr. anne l. astier, Ph.d. vitaly v. Ganusov, Ph.d. dane Parker, d.O., Ph.d. Kari a. shirey, Ph.d. Jeffrey m. walch RCuK Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Research Scientist Pooja c. mehta Kristen e. Pauken univ. of maryland, Baltimore univ. of Pittsburgh univ. of Edinburgh univ. of Tennessee univ. of maryland Sch. of med. Columbia univ. Baylor Col. of med. univ. of minnesota cara skon ling wang, m.d., Ph.d. Xiaoyong Bao, Ph.d. scott a. Gerber, Ph.d. cheng-rui li, m.d., Ph.d. Kevin d. Pavelko, Ph.d. heather J. melichar, Ph.d. Pablo a. Penaloza-macmaster univ. of minnesota univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Staff Scientist Assistant Professor univ. of California, Berkeley Harvard univ., Beth israel Deaconess myoungsun son, Ph.d. Kayla a. weiss univ. of Texas med. Br. univ. of Rochester med. Ctr. Sanford-Burnham med. Res. inst. mayo Clin. Col. of med. med. Ctr. michelle n. messmer The Feinstein inst. for med. Res. univ. of iowa Betsy J. Barnes, Ph.d. Gregorio Gomez, Ph.d. Jianguo liu, m.d., Ph.d. Kimberly J. Payne, Ph.d. univ. of Pittsburgh cristina Penaranda, Ph.d. Joo hye song Brian m. weist Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor ryan d. michalek, Ph.d.* univ. of California, San Francisco massachusetts gen. Hosp. univ. of California, irvine umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. Virginia Commonwealth univ. Saint louis univ. Sch. of med. loma linda univ. Duke univ. cheng Peng charles t. spencer, Ph.d. Jesse w. williams robert a. Barrington, Ph.d. anton Gorbachev, Ph.d. Philip t. liu, Ph.d. adrian m. Piliponsky, Ph.d. Jeffrey h. mills, Ph.d.* Hunter Col. and the grad. Ctr. Vanderbilt univ. univ. of Chicago Assistant Professor instructor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of the City univ. of South Alabama Cleveland Clin. univ. of California, los Angeles Seattle Children’s Res. inst., Cornell univ. emily K. stefanov tim willinger, m.d., Ph.d. univ. of Washington Paria mirmonsef, Ph.d. meghan Pennini, Ph.d. univ. of Alabama, Birmingham yale Sch. of med. linda B. Baughn, Ph.d. Beichu Guo, Ph.d. Jennifer m. lund, Ph.d. univ. of maryland, Baltimore Assistant member Rush univ. med. Ctr. tom li stephen, Ph.d. elizabeth wilson, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor vadim i. Pivniouk, Ph.d. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr. tomomitsu miyasaka abdul mohammad Pezeshki Wistar inst. univ. of California, los Angeles univ. of minnesota med. univ. of South Carolina Assistant Professor univ. of montreal amber u. luong, m.d., Ph.d. univ. of Arizona Tohoku univ. grad. Sch. of med. Gretta stritesky, Ph.d. eric wong igor m. Belyakov, m.d., Ph.d. Karen t. hastings, Ph.d. Assistant Professor andrew J. monteith Jeon Pilhyun, Ph.d. univ. of minnesota Thomas Jefferson univ. Research Assistant Professor Assistant Professor martin Prlic, Ph.d. Hallym univ. univ. of michigan med. Sch. univ. of Arizona univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at Houston Assistant member univ. of north Carolina, Chapel Hill Jamie l. sturgill, Ph.d. Jeffrey l. wong Katherine c. macnamara, Ph.d. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr. James J. moon, Ph.d. Barbara Platzer, Ph.d. Virginia Commonwealth univ. univ. of Pittsburgh steven Bensinger, Ph.d., v.m.d. Jodi f. hedges, Ph.d. Assistant Professor massachusetts inst. of Technol. Children’s Hosp. Boston Assistant Professor Assistant Research Professor Ziaur rahman, m.d., Ph.d. Kuei-ying su, m.d. yanbao Xiong, Ph.d. Albany med. Col. courtney r. Plumlee, Ph.d. univ. of California, los Angeles montana State univ. Research Assistant Professor Johanna K. morales, Ph.d. Duke univ. med. Ctr. univ. of maryland, Baltimore Thomas Jefferson univ. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. rance e. Berg, Ph.d. venkatesh l. hegde, Ph.d. alicia r. mathers, Ph.d. Virginia Commonwealth univ. Jung hwan sung, Ph.d. Jiabin yan, Ph.d. yuri O. Poluektov Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Govindarajan rajagopalan, d.v.m., ian r. morris Harvard med. Sch. univ. of maryland, Baltimore univ. of north Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of South Carolina Sch. of med. univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of med. Ph.d. univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. agnieszka m. szymula chiaowen yang, Ph.d. alina c. Boesteanu, Ph.d. nicola m. heller, Ph.d. maureen a. mcGargill, Ph.d. Assistant Professor at San Antonio filippos Porichis, Ph.d. univ. of Virginia Washington univ. mayo Clin. Ragon institute of mgH, miT, Harvard Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant member sumanta mukherjee, Ph.d. Kentaro takahashi, m.d., Ph.d. mei-ling yang, Ph.d. Drexel univ. Col. of med. Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. lisa K. ryan, Ph.d. univ. of michigan hari hara s.K. Potula, Ph.d. grad. Sch. of med., Chiba univ. yale univ. Assistant Professor univ. of Florida ramireddy Bommireddy, Ph.d. wanqiu hou, Ph.d. mandy J. mcGeachy, Ph.d. megan e. murray stephenie m. takahashi, m.d. min yang, m.d. Research Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Researcher Assistant Professor umDnJ, new Jersey med. Sch. Roswell Park Cancer inst. Zhijuan Qiu univ. of Chicago med. Ctr. univ. of Hong Kong univ. of Arizona univ. of California, los Angeles univ. of Pittsburgh surojit sarkar, Ph.d. Kavitha narayan, Ph.d. univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Oezcan talay, Ph.d. Jennifer l. yates david G. Brooks, Ph.d. hui hu, Ph.d. robert J. mcKallip, Ph.d. Assistant Professor univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Buvana ravishankar genentech, inc. Wadsworth Ctr. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Pennsylvania State univ. georgia Hlth Sci. univ. nicole m. nasholm Jenny m. tam, Ph.d. Jian ye, Ph.d. univ. of California, los Angeles The Wistar inst. mercer univ. Sch. of med. ram savan, Ph.d. niH avijit ray, Ph.d.* Assistant Professor massachusetts gen. Hosp., Saint louis univ. ling cao, m.d., Ph.d. demelza J. ireland, Ph.d. Karl Kai mcKinstry, Ph.d. Blood Res. inst., BloodCenter debasis nayak, Ph.d. Harvard med. Sch. Assistant Professor Research Assistant Professor instructor univ. of Washington of Wisconsin catherine c. yin ninDS, niH eric tewalt, Ph.d. univ. of massachusetts, Worcester univ. of new England univ. of Western Australia univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. hilde schjerven, Ph.d. dawn K. reichenbach Assistant Project Scientist michael P. nelson univ. of Virginia svetlana P. chapoval, m.d., Ph.d. dawn m. Jelley-Gibbs, Ph.d. andrei medvedev, Ph.d. univ. of Pittsburgh yiming yin univ. of California, los Angeles univ. of Alabama, Birmingham Poonam tewary, Ph.d. univ. of Florida Assistant Professor Research Assistant member Assistant Professor ryan w. nelson d.c. rios niH univ. of maryland Sch. of med. Trudeau inst. univ. of maryland, Baltimore nathalie scholler, m.d., Ph.d. Emory univ. minjun yu, Ph.d. Assistant Professor univ. of minnesota med. Sch. melissa y. tjota Columbia univ. devavani chatterjea, Ph.d. cong Jin, Ph.d. Joshua mezrich, m.d. claudia rival, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of med. evan w. newell, Ph.d. univ. of Chicago damien J. Zanker Stanford univ. univ. of Virginia macalester Col. natl. inst. of Viral Dis. Control and univ. of Wisconsin-madison sarita sehra, Ph.d. Prabhanshu tripathi, Ph.d. ludwig inst. for Cancer Res. Prevention, China CDC soma rohatgi, Ph.d. Jayajit das, Ph.d. manoj K. mishra, Ph.d. Research Assistant Professor spencer ng univ. of Chicago huiyuan Zhang, m.d., Ph.d. indiana univ. Sch. of med. Albert Einstein Col. of med. Assistant Professor Peggy l. Kendall, m.d. Assistant Professor Emory univ. aaron J. tyznik, Ph.d. mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. Res. inst. at the nationwide Children’s Assistant Professor Alabama State univ. anil shanker, Ph.d. sze-ling ng, Ph.d.* Brian r. rosborough la Jolla inst. for Allergy and immunol. yongliang Zhang, Ph.d. Hosp. and ohio State univ. Vanderbilt univ. med. Ctr. Assistant Professor Harvard univ. univ. of Pittsburgh emiko mizoguchi, m.d., Ph.d. vaibhav upadhyay med. univ. of South Carolina meharry med. Col. Sch. of med. Guo-min deng, m.d., Ph.d. Kamal m. Khanna, Ph.d. Assistant Professor atsushi nishida melanie r. rutkowski, Ph.d. univ. of Chicago yun Zhao, m.d., Ph.d. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor massachusetts gen. Hosp., michiko shimoda, Ph.d. massachusetts gen. Hosp. Wistar inst. stina l. urban massachusetts gen. Hosp. Harvard med. Sch., Beth israel univ. of Connecticut Hlth. Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. Assistant Professor shaun m. O Brien sean O. ryan, Ph.d. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. Bo Zhong, Ph.d. Deaconess med. Ctr. srinivas nagaraj, Ph.d. georgia Hlth. Sci. univ. univ. of Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve univ. Gilbert r. Kinsey, Pharm.d., Ph.d. Zachary c. vanGundy mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. Assistant Professor of Research Assistant Professor robert saddawi-Konefka Zhongbin deng, Ph.d. tahiro taekwang shin, m.d., Ph.d. hope O’donnell ohio State univ. min Zhu, d.d.s. instructor, Assistant Research Scientist univ. of Virginia univ. of South Florida Assistant Professor univ. of California, Davis univ. of California, San Diego trupti d. vardam, Ph.d. Boston univ. univ. of louisville roza i. nurieva, Ph.d. univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Kaori sakuishi, m.d., Ph.d. Kimberly d. Klonowski, Ph.d. Javier G. Ogembo, Ph.d. Roswell Park Cancer inst. Assistant Professor at San Antonio Brigham and Women’s Hosp., Bernd Zinselmeyer, Ph.d. Assistant Professor Harvard univ., Beth israel Deaconess mD Anderson Cancer Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. Bindu varghese, d.O., Ph.d. ninDS, niH univ. of georgia med. Ctr. Harvard med. Sch. Jason l. O’loughlin, Ph.d. John c. schwartz univ. of oklahoma Hlth. Sci. Ctr. univ. of minnesota

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rajesh singh, Ph.d. heather w. stout-delgado, Ph.d. ana maria hernandez vazquez, Ph.d. shiguang yu, Ph.d. instructor Associate Staff Scientist Head, Regulatory Antibodies Project Assistant Professor morehouse Sch. of med. lovelace Resp. Res. inst. Ctr. of molecular immunology Arkansas State univ. aai minority scientist travel awards udai P. singh, Ph.d. tara m. strutt, Ph.d. matam vijay-Kumar, Ph.d. weiming yuan, Ph.d. Assistant Professor instructor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor univ. of South Carolina Sch. of med. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. georgia State univ. univ. of Southern California Adriana D. Benavides Derek D. Jones Claudia Rival, Ph.D. ronald B. smeltz, Ph.d. Keer sun, Ph.d. fengyi wan, Ph.d. Xingxing Zang, Ph.d. Graduate Student Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University of Texas Health Science Wadsworth Center University of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth univ. Albany med. Col. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch. Albert Einstein Col. of med. of Publ. Hlth. Center at San Antonio Judith a. smith, m.d., Ph.d. susmit suvas, Ph.d. Bin Zhang, Ph.d. Vanessa Kurzweil Annalise R. Smith Assistant Professor Assistant Professor George wang, m.d. Assistant Professor Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, univ. of Wisconsin-madison oakland univ. Assistant Professor univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Graduate Student Graduate Student Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. at San Antonio Ph.D. michelle l. d. snyder, Ph.d. Paul thomas, Ph.d. University of Pennsylvania University of Miami Assistant Professor Assistant member Pamela a. wearsch, Ph.d. yongliang Zhang, Ph.d. Research Assistant Professor Towson univ. St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University of Miami Marvin A. Lai Damian L. Turner, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve univ. natl. univ. of Singapore Jianxun song, Ph.d. vladimir y. toshchakov, Ph.d. Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor yutao yan, m.d., Ph.d. Zhu-Xu Zhang, Ph.d. Dante B. Descalzi Montoya University of Washington Columbia University Pennsylvania State univ. Col. of med. univ. of maryland Sch. of med. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor georgia State univ., Atlanta univ. of Western ontario Graduate Student christian stehlik, Ph.d. heth r. turnquist, Ph.d. VA med. Ctr. University of Medicine Maria Del Rosario Lopez Ocasio Frances D. Valencia Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Juhua Zhou, Ph.d. northwestern univ. Feinberg univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of med. Jun-Qi yang, Ph.d. Research Assistant Professor and Dentistry of New Jersey Graduate Student Graduate Student Sch. of med. Research Assistant Professor univ. of South Carolina SUNY Downstate Medical Center University of Texas Medical Branch univ. of Cincinnati Col. of med. li Zhou, m.d. Jessica M. Falcon at Galveston Assistant Scientist Graduate Student Sharline Madera Henry Ford Hlth. Syst. Drexel University Graduate Student Peter Velazquez, Ph.D. Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan- Assistant Professor Curtis J. Henry, Ph.D. Kettering Tri-Institutional Indiana University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow —South Bend University of Colorado School of Jorge L. Medina 2012 aai laBOratOry travel Grant reciPients Medicine Graduate Student Abebayehu N. Yilma University of Texas Health Science Graduate Student Mayra X. Hernandez Sanabria, Center at San Antonio Alabama State University Support in part for these grants has been generously provided by AllCells D.V.M., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Susan Realegeno scott i. abrams, Ph.d. yukai he, m.d., Ph.d. craig morita, m.d., Ph.d. Baylor College of Medicine Graduate Student Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor University of California, Los Angeles Roswell Park Cancer inst. georgia Hlth. Sci. univ. univ. of iowa michael t. Berton, Ph.d. susan i. Jarvi, Ph.d. mahyar a. nouri-shirazi, d.v.m., Ph.d. Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at San Antonio univ. of Hawaii at Hilo Florida Atlantic univ. Col. of med. lisa a. Borghesi, Ph.d. michele m. Kosiewicz, Ph.d. shailesh singh, Ph.d. aai Undergraduate Faculty travel grants Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of med. univ. of louisville morehouse Sch. of med. Erin S. Bromage, Ph.D. David J. Klinke, Ph.D. Paula M. Pitha-Rowe, Ph.D. marlene Bouvier, Ph.d. Quan-Zhen li, Ph.d. tamar a. smith-norowitz, Ph.d. Associate Professor Associate Professor Research Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Professor univ. of illinois at Chicago univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. Suny Downstate med. Ctr. University of Massachusetts, West Virginia University Johns Hopkins University — yingzi cong, Ph.d. yuan liu, m.d., Ph.d. Zuoming sun, Ph.d. Dartmouth Homewood Campus Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Kara R. Lukin, Ph.D. univ. of Texas med. Br. georgia State univ. Beckman Res. inst. of the City of Hope John M. González, M.D. Instructor Sophia D. Sarafova, Ph.D. Joan m. cook-mills, Ph.d. Binfeng lu, Ph.d. Jianke Zhang, Ph.d. Associate Professor National Jewish Health Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Universidad de los Andes Davidson College northwestern univ. Feinberg Sch. of med. univ. of Pittsburgh Thomas Jefferson univ. Meenakshi Malik, D.V.M., Ph.D. yan cui, Ph.d. Qing-sheng mi, m.d., Ph.d. song Guo Zheng, m.d., Ph.d. Melanie R. Gubbels Bupp, Ph.D. Luis I. Terrazas, Ph.D. Associate Professor Associate Scientist Associate Professor Assistant Professor louisiana State univ. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Henry Ford Hlth. Syst. univ. of Southern California Assistant Professor Albany College of Pharmacy Professor venugopal Gangur, d.v.m., Ph.d. Randolph-Macon College and Health Sciences Facultad de Estudios Superiores- Associate Professor Iztacala michigan State univ. Vandana Kalia, Ph.D. Yuko J. Miyamoto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Professor Pennsylvania State University Elon University

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rajesh singh, Ph.d. heather w. stout-delgado, Ph.d. ana maria hernandez vazquez, Ph.d. shiguang yu, Ph.d. instructor Associate Staff Scientist Head, Regulatory Antibodies Project Assistant Professor morehouse Sch. of med. lovelace Resp. Res. inst. Ctr. of molecular immunology Arkansas State univ. aai minority scientist travel awards udai P. singh, Ph.d. tara m. strutt, Ph.d. matam vijay-Kumar, Ph.d. weiming yuan, Ph.d. Assistant Professor instructor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor univ. of South Carolina Sch. of med. univ. of massachusetts med. Sch. georgia State univ. univ. of Southern California Adriana D. Benavides Derek D. Jones Claudia Rival, Ph.D. ronald B. smeltz, Ph.d. Keer sun, Ph.d. fengyi wan, Ph.d. Xingxing Zang, Ph.d. Graduate Student Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University of Texas Health Science Wadsworth Center University of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth univ. Albany med. Col. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch. Albert Einstein Col. of med. of Publ. Hlth. Center at San Antonio Judith a. smith, m.d., Ph.d. susmit suvas, Ph.d. Bin Zhang, Ph.d. Vanessa Kurzweil Annalise R. Smith Assistant Professor Assistant Professor George wang, m.d. Assistant Professor Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, univ. of Wisconsin-madison oakland univ. Assistant Professor univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Graduate Student Graduate Student Johns Hopkins univ. Sch. of med. at San Antonio Ph.D. michelle l. d. snyder, Ph.d. Paul thomas, Ph.d. University of Pennsylvania University of Miami Assistant Professor Assistant member Pamela a. wearsch, Ph.d. yongliang Zhang, Ph.d. Research Assistant Professor Towson univ. St. Jude Children’s Res. Hosp. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University of Miami Marvin A. Lai Damian L. Turner, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve univ. natl. univ. of Singapore Jianxun song, Ph.d. vladimir y. toshchakov, Ph.d. Graduate Student Postdoctoral Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor yutao yan, m.d., Ph.d. Zhu-Xu Zhang, Ph.d. Dante B. Descalzi Montoya University of Washington Columbia University Pennsylvania State univ. Col. of med. univ. of maryland Sch. of med. Assistant Professor Assistant Professor georgia State univ., Atlanta univ. of Western ontario Graduate Student christian stehlik, Ph.d. heth r. turnquist, Ph.d. VA med. Ctr. University of Medicine Maria Del Rosario Lopez Ocasio Frances D. Valencia Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Juhua Zhou, Ph.d. northwestern univ. Feinberg univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of med. Jun-Qi yang, Ph.d. Research Assistant Professor and Dentistry of New Jersey Graduate Student Graduate Student Sch. of med. Research Assistant Professor univ. of South Carolina SUNY Downstate Medical Center University of Texas Medical Branch univ. of Cincinnati Col. of med. li Zhou, m.d. Jessica M. Falcon at Galveston Assistant Scientist Graduate Student Sharline Madera Henry Ford Hlth. Syst. Drexel University Graduate Student Peter Velazquez, Ph.D. Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan- Assistant Professor Curtis J. Henry, Ph.D. Kettering Tri-Institutional Indiana University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow —South Bend University of Colorado School of Jorge L. Medina 2012 aai laBOratOry travel Grant reciPients Medicine Graduate Student Abebayehu N. Yilma University of Texas Health Science Graduate Student Mayra X. Hernandez Sanabria, Center at San Antonio Alabama State University Support in part for these grants has been generously provided by AllCells D.V.M., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Susan Realegeno scott i. abrams, Ph.d. yukai he, m.d., Ph.d. craig morita, m.d., Ph.d. Baylor College of Medicine Graduate Student Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor University of California, Los Angeles Roswell Park Cancer inst. georgia Hlth. Sci. univ. univ. of iowa michael t. Berton, Ph.d. susan i. Jarvi, Ph.d. mahyar a. nouri-shirazi, d.v.m., Ph.d. Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr. at San Antonio univ. of Hawaii at Hilo Florida Atlantic univ. Col. of med. lisa a. Borghesi, Ph.d. michele m. Kosiewicz, Ph.d. shailesh singh, Ph.d. aai Undergraduate Faculty travel grants Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of med. univ. of louisville morehouse Sch. of med. Erin S. Bromage, Ph.D. David J. Klinke, Ph.D. Paula M. Pitha-Rowe, Ph.D. marlene Bouvier, Ph.d. Quan-Zhen li, Ph.d. tamar a. smith-norowitz, Ph.d. Associate Professor Associate Professor Research Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Professor univ. of illinois at Chicago univ. of Texas Southwestern med. Ctr. Suny Downstate med. Ctr. University of Massachusetts, West Virginia University Johns Hopkins University — yingzi cong, Ph.d. yuan liu, m.d., Ph.d. Zuoming sun, Ph.d. Dartmouth Homewood Campus Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Kara R. Lukin, Ph.D. univ. of Texas med. Br. georgia State univ. Beckman Res. inst. of the City of Hope John M. González, M.D. Instructor Sophia D. Sarafova, Ph.D. Joan m. cook-mills, Ph.d. Binfeng lu, Ph.d. Jianke Zhang, Ph.d. Associate Professor National Jewish Health Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Universidad de los Andes Davidson College northwestern univ. Feinberg Sch. of med. univ. of Pittsburgh Thomas Jefferson univ. Meenakshi Malik, D.V.M., Ph.D. yan cui, Ph.d. Qing-sheng mi, m.d., Ph.d. song Guo Zheng, m.d., Ph.d. Melanie R. Gubbels Bupp, Ph.D. Luis I. Terrazas, Ph.D. Associate Professor Associate Scientist Associate Professor Assistant Professor louisiana State univ. Hlth. Sci. Ctr. Henry Ford Hlth. 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AAI_2012Prog_FrontSection_R.indd 37 4/4/12 4:17:30 PM AAI_2012_NewAwards.indd 1 4/9/12 3:08:28 PM The Founding of AAI

Medical College, University of Minnesota (c. 1908) Image: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection

ǃǃ The Ford Motor Company introduced ǃǃ The Progressive Era ideal that the first moving assembly line. efficiency, expertise, and ǃǃ The United States dedicated its first professionalism could overcome transcontinental road – the Lincoln societal problems and, potentially, Highway – linking New York and nature itself was beginning to infuse California. federal government programs and ǃǃ Construction on the Panama Canal, public discourse. one of the seven wonders of the ǃǃ New technology and enhanced Early moving assembly line at Ford (ca. 1913) modern world, was finally completed. training were dramatically increasing Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division ǃǃ Congress created the Federal Reserve the rate of discovery and, with it, As the centennial year of The American System to establish stability in the specialization in science and Association of Immunologists (AAI) banking system. medicine—as evidenced by the many approaches, we can look back and ǃǃ Woodrow Wilson was sworn in, New York Times front-page stories appreciate the incredible advances that becoming the first and only U.S. about new treatments for and the president with a Ph.D.1 causes of diphtheria, rabies, cancer, were taking place in the United States and and tuberculosis. the world in 1913. 1. Woodrow Wilson earned his doctorate in history and political science in 1886 from Johns Hopkins University.

24 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org n the unusually warm evening of June 19, 1913, Wright was the founder and far from the national spotlight or any mention on director of the Inoculation the front pages of newspapers, a small group of Department at St. Mary’s physicians met on the campus of the University Hospital in London and the of Minnesota to form a society for a new medical Praed Street Laboratories. His Ospecialty. This new society would help define immunology as a laboratories were focused on bona fide area of specialization and would eventually become the concept that “recovery the preeminent professional association for immunologists in from all infective diseases must the world. be largely determined by the These physicians had been development of ‘antibodies’ attending the annual meeting in the patient’s blood and that of the American Medical Sir Almroth Wright this process could be probably Association2 and were meeting stimulated by inoculation Image provided by The American at the invitation of Martin J. Association of Immunologists Collection, of the appropriate vaccine.” Synnott, a private practice Center for Biological Sciences Archives, Wright advocated for more than UMBC physician from Montclair, New mere vaccination, promoting Jersey, who had made previous, a technique of vaccine therapy that he had developed. The failed attempts to organize therapy was based upon the premise that a sick patient could a society of North American be injected with appropriate levels of a vaccine to “exploit the disciples of Sir Almroth Wright3. uninfected tissue in favor of the infected.” His initial success Martin J. Synnott On this day, however, he in the early 1900s with an effective anti-typhoid inoculation was finally successful, and technique had made the Praed Street Laboratories a magnet Image provided by The American Association of Immunologists Collection, The American Association for new students. This inoculation technique was adopted by Center for Biological Sciences Archives, of Immunologists (AAI) was the British War Department in 1914 as standard procedure. University of Maryland, Baltimore County founded. The new society quickly Its success had earlier led to Wright’s being inducted into organized around a definitive name, a set of objectives, and knighthood.6 leadership that would build the foundation for lasting success. Despite the British military’s adoption of his inoculation In just a few years, the new society would lead in legitimizing technique and his 1906 induction into knighthood, Wright’s a new scientific discipline as the group established its own vaccine therapy research in 1912 was not appreciated or widely annual meeting and created what was to become the most employed outside of England. Synnott’s efforts to form the highly acclaimed peer-reviewed scientific journal in its field, new Society of Vaccine Therapists were intended to promote The Journal of Immunology (The JI). awareness of the field’s promise. Despite the 40 positive The idea to form a new professional organization had first responses Synnott had received for the concept of the new occurred to Synnott (AAI 1913, secretary 1913–1918) in early society in 1912, too few of his colleagues were available for 1912. As a former student of Sir Almroth Wright (AAI Honorary 4 1914), Synnott wanted to bring together the men in the United 2. The exact number of attendees at the organizing meeting of AAI is unknown. States and Canada who had trained with Wright and shared 3. For more information on Almroth Wright see: Michael S. Dunnill, The Plato of Praed Street: The Life And Times of Almroth Wright (Royal Society of Medicine: London, 2001); his vision of the emerging promise of vaccine therapy. In 1912, Zachary Cope, Almroth Wright: Founder of Modern Vaccine-therapy (Nelson: London, Synnott wrote to 49 former students of Wright’s and received 1966); Leonard Colebrook, Almroth Wright: Provocative Doctor and Thinker (William Heineman: London, 1954). 40 favorable responses to his proposal for forming “The Society 4. Almroth Wright was a publicly acclaimed anti-suffragist, and he never allowed women of Vaccine Therapists.” These 40 physicians were in practices into his laboratory. There were no women scientists under his tutelage to invite to join. 5. Almroth E. Wright, Studies on Immunisation and Their Application to the Diagnosis and located across the continent, isolated from other colleagues Treatment of Bacterial Infections (Archibald Constable & Co.: London, 1909). schooled in Wright’s premise that “the physician of the future 6. Leonard Colebrook, “Almroth Edward Wright. 1861-1947,” Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 6, no. 17 (1948): 299-300. The adoption of Wright’s anti-typhoid would be a vaccine therapist.”5 Wright’s “disciples” were not inoculation technique made England the only country to have troops resistant to typhoid at the onset of the First World War. Wright was knighted in 1906 for recognition sufficiently organized in any fashion to promote awareness of of his research and successes in preventive inoculation against the enteric group of the promise held by vaccine therapies. infections, notably typhoid fever.

www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 25 the proposed organizational meeting. He soon made another through Animal Experimentation,” attempt, calling for a meeting on the evening of May 5, 1913, at Gay asserted that “[t]he science of the Hotel Raleigh, Washington, DC, during the annual meeting immunity, or immunology, would of the Association of American Physicians. Still, there were too explain the mechanism by which few participants. Undeterred, Synnott scheduled the successful the animal body is enabled to Minneapolis organizational meeting from which the new resist disease.”12 professional society emerged that summer. In 1913, Webb was well aware In Synnott’s view, it was a society of vaccine therapists. of Wright’s 1909 proclamation The scope and membership of the new society formed at the that “the physician of the future meeting, however, departed significantly from Synnott’s initial will be an immunisator,” and, concept, encompassing a broader view of the science and as his biographer makes clear, clinical practice. This difference was reflected in the name of Gerald B. Webb Webb preferred Gay’s broad the new society: The American Association of Immunologists. Image provided by The American definition of “immunology” to The name is attributed to Gerald B. Webb, a nationally Association of Immunologists Collection, the narrow denotation of Wright’s Center for Biological Sciences Archives, renowned tuberculosis physician and researcher who UMBC “immunisator,” referring very would become the first president of the society. Although specifically to an immunizer, inoculator, or vaccine therapist.13 he had trained with Wright and was a devoted disciple, he Nearly 65 years later, the wisdom of Webb’s preference was was concerned that Synnott’s proposed Society of Vaccine praised for its importance to the recognition of immunology Therapists would impose restrictions on future growth of the as a scientific discipline when David Talmage (AAI 1954, new organization.7 For Webb, linking a society exclusively president 1978–1979) stated, “I believe we can properly with vaccine therapy posed two major problems. First, he was attribute [immunology’s] prominence in our vocabulary, if not aware that Wright’s theories and methods were viewed with its invention, to Dr. Webb.”14 skepticism in England and Europe, and he sought to avoid Beyond naming the new society at the founding meeting, this tarnish.8 Second, restricting a society to a single process the members also created a mission statement in the form of would limit its interest. If the new society was perceived as three objectives. The first two reflected the inclusiveness set anchored only in vaccine therapy, Webb feared it would not forth with the use of “immunology” in the name. “To unite the attract clinicians and researchers in other related, growing physicians of the United States and Canada who are engaged fields, such as experimental pathology. To make the society in the scientific study of immunology and bacterial therapy. more inclusive and flexible, the founders expanded the list To study the problems of immunology, and to promote by its of eligible members to include physicians and researchers concerted efforts scientific research in this department.” The who had trained with Élie Metchnikoff,9 Paul Ehrlich, August third objective clearly stemmed from Synnott’s intention to von Wassermann, as well as in “other famous laboratories in promote awareness of Wright’s teachings: “To spread a correct Europe.”10 They also sought a name for the organization that knowledge of vaccine therapy and immunology among general would connote a broader mission and position the society practitioners.” The dues of the association, to be fixed annually for growth with scientific and medical advances. They settled by the Council, were “not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00).”15 upon using a new term, “immunology,” in the name. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “immunology” had entered the English language through 7. Helen Clapesattle, Dr. Webb of Colorado Springs (Colorado Associated University its use by two future AAI members and presidents shortly Press: Boulder, CO, 1984), 215. before the founding of AAI. In 1909 Ludvig Hektoen (AAI 8. Clapesattle, 215. 9. Born Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, he was also known as Élie Metchnikoff. president 1926) was the first to use the word. He did so in 10. Martin Synnott, “A Historical Sketch,” (1914). AAI Archives. It is unknown which his article, “Opsonins and Other Antibodies,” in Science.11 laboratories Synnott and Webb considered “famous.” 11. "Immunology," Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.oed.com (accessed 19 March Hektoen used the term only once – and only in passing – when 2012); Ludvig Hektoen, “Opsonins and Other Antibodies,” Science, 29, no. 737 (1909): referring to the law of opsonin production: “In the language of 241–248. It is unclear when Dr. Hektoen was elected a member of AAI. It is possible it was 1919, as the election information from that year is missing in the AAI Archives. immunology any substance capable of giving rise to antibodies 12. Oxford English Dictionary; Frederick P. Gay, “Immunology: A Medical Science in suitable animals is called an antigen.” Then, a mere three Developed through Animal Experimentation,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 56, no. 8 (1911): 578–583. months before AAI was formed, Frederick P. Gay (AAI 1918, 13. Claplesattle, 216. president 1921) defined immunology as a distinct scientific 14. David W. Talmage, “Presidential Address: Beyond Cellular Immunology,” The Journal of Immunology 123, no. 1 (1979): 1. discipline in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 15. Minutes of the First Annual Meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, In his article, “Immunology: A Medical Science Developed 22 June 1914. AAI Archives.

26 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org Requirements for election to the membership were Of the 59 Charter Members, the majority were clinicians or established. A candidate had to be nominated by one member, professors, and, in keeping with the trend prior to the Second be endorsed by two additional members, have provided the World War, there were very few, if any, Ph.D.s.;21 most, if not AAI secretary with “papers” that indicated the character of his all, of the Charter Members were M.D.s. The association had a or her contributions to immunology, and have “at least one broad geographical reach and included members from as far published contribution to the science of immunology.” The north as Toronto, Canada, and as far south as Temple, Texas; candidate had to be a “graduate of medicine,” although no from as far east as Boston, Massachusetts, and as far west as specific degree requirements were mentioned. Honolulu, Hawaii. The Philadelphia region boasted the most The officers elected during the 1913 meeting were Webb early members (12), followed by New York City region (11), and (president), Synnott (secretary), George W. Ross (vice- Ohio (7). The Charter Members also included a constituency president), Willard J. Stone (treasurer), , and five councillors, that would have been anathema to the vehemently anti- including A. Parker Hitchens (chairman of the council), Oscar suffrage Wright: two women.22 Berghausen, Campbell Laidlaw, Henry L. Ulrich, and J.E. Growth of the new society was robust enough that, by Robinson. The officers set a date and location for their next the time of that first annual meeting in Atlantic City, even meeting, the first AAI annual meeting: June 1, 1914, in Atlantic Synnott seems to have accepted the utility of Webb’s preferred City, New Jersey.16 term of “immunologist” over “immunisator.” When asked Although the date was eventually moved to later in the to offer attendees an account of the founding of the society, month, 18 of 52 initial AAI members did, in fact, convene for Synnott took liberties in paraphrasing Wright’s famous the first annual meeting of the society on June 22, 1914, at the assertion, stating that “the physician of the future would be Hotel Chelsea in Atlantic City. According to the minutes of an immunologist,” and that the new society “would in a few the first annual meeting, “the work of developing the society years be one of the most important medical organizations had progressed slowly but effectively” since Minneapolis.17 on this continent.”23 Though Webb is often cast as the most Membership in AAI had increased from its 52 initial members important founding member, two less heralded Charter to 59 with the election of seven new scientists at the meeting. Members were equally important to the continued success The leadership was kept in place as all of the officers were of the new society: A. Parker Hitchens (AAI 1913, Council re-elected, and a draft of the constitution and by-laws was president 1913–1917) and Richard Weil (AAI 1914, president proposed to provide organizational stability. The impetus 1916–1917). As the president of the Council, Hitchens drafted for future growth, however, was provided by the interesting the first AAI Constitution and By-laws, which established how science presented at this first annual meeting and the founders’ the organization was to be governed. He was also almost solely creativity in plans for membership development. responsible for making sure that AAI was a co-founder of The Attendees at this meeting discussed a range of diverse topics Journal of Immunology with the New York Society for Serology during the one-day conference. Presented at the meeting were and Hematology (see AAI Newsletter, Dec. 2011). a few papers on techniques or hypotheses that would not be Weil had an equal, if less obvious, impact on the association borne out by later experimentation and that would not be during his abbreviated membership. He was a Charter Member considered “immunology” by today’s standards, but several of the speakers presented studies and technical innovations that 16. “Medical News,” Journal of the American Medical Association 61, no. 23 (1913): 2079. 17. Minutes of the First Annual Meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, did presage the ultimate focus of the field. (See Science at the 22 June 1914. AAI Archives. First AAI Annual Meeting, p. 30 of this newsletter.) 18. When the AAI Constitution and By-Laws document was adopted in April 1917, the only membership category was “Active.” Honorary and Corresponding memberships The members at this first meeting may have had little were eliminated. The majority of the Honorary Members were transferred to Active experience in membership development, but they did not membership and the Corresponding Members were all removed from the AAI membership rolls. The Honorary membership returned in 1935 but was then very lack imagination for novel ways to enhance the prestige of similar to the current AAI Emeritus Member classification. membership in the society. They established two discretionary 19. S. R. Douglas, F.R.S. (1871–1936) was a bacteriologist and captain in the R.A.M.C. In 1902, Douglas became an assistant to Wright, was the initial assistant director of membership classes defined vaguely enough to convey the inoculation department at St. Mary's Hospital, and in 1914, became the deputy director of the National Institute for Medical Research (UK). In 1903, Wright and member status on a group of prestigious British physicians Douglas published a paper on the role of the body fluids in phagocytosis, which helped focused on vaccine therapy at St. Mary’s Hospital.18 The first stimulate work on vaccines and vaccine therapy. 20. Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), a student and protégé of Wright’s, is best known of these special membership classes created was the Honorary for his discovery of penicillin in 1928 for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. John Freeman, D.M. (1877–1962) was one of Wright's Member category, to which they elected Almroth Wright first disciples, who spent his entire professional career at St. Mary's Hospital. Primarily and Captain S. R. Douglas.19 The second category was that a bacteriologist, Freeman also carried out research in allergy and asthma. of Corresponding Member, to which they elected Alexander 21. The founders classified those who joined AAI before 1915 as Charter Members. 22. “Roll of Charter Members,” c. 1914. AAI Archives. 20 Fleming and John Freeman. 23. Martin Synnott, “A Historical Sketch,” c.1914. AAI Archives. [emphasis added]

www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 27 and served as AAI president from 1916 to 1917, but his most enduring contributions to the society were in his recruitment of members and his early assistance to The JI. Shortly before his retirement, Arthur Coca (AAI 1916, secretary-treasurer 1918– 1945, editor-in-chief 1920–1948) singled out Weil, praising him for having “used his considerable influence to induce outstanding immunologists to join [AAI].”24 Coca also recalled Weil’s “more optimistic” view of the new journal, which led him to contribute four papers for the first issue. Weil’s papers, in Coca’s estimation, “helped materially” to start the journal.25 Further, Coca credited Weil for his role in selecting the initial editorial board for The JI. The founders of AAI were enjoying great momentum, but all of their good efforts were soon to be abruptly interrupted. On April 6, 1917, while AAI members were in New York City for their fourth annual meeting, they learned that the Weil Resolution Image provided by AAI United States Congress had Richard Weil declared war on Germany. The was among them. A number of members stayed in their “war to end all wars,” which laboratories to carry out wartime research, while others Image provided by The American Association of Immunologists Collection, had been raging in Europe for enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps and were sent Center for Biological Sciences Archives, UMBC almost three years, had now to bases around the country. become a reality for America, The focus of the laboratories in wartime shifted to meet the and her citizens quickly mobilized for war. As in all other areas needs of the military, conducting research into the pandemic of American life, the war had an immediate and lasting impact influenza,26 trench diseases, and wound-related infections. on the nascent society. Wartime mobilization also directly affected the society’s On the same day that they learned the United States had leadership. Willard Stone had to relinquish his duties as AAI entered the First World War, members of the AAI Council treasurer when he was stationed at the base hospital at Fort passed the following resolution of shared sacrifice: Riley, Kansas, in 1917.27 And Weil was assigned first to Fort Benjamin Harrison near Lawrence, Indiana, and then to Camp Whereas the Government of the United States may soon need Wheeler, outside of Macon, Georgia, as chief of medical service the services of trained bacteriologists and immunologists and to help quell an outbreak of measles and pneumonia at the the facilities of their respective laboratories, camp. Tragically, Weil died of complications from pneumonia on November 19, 1917, only a few months after arriving at the Be it Resolved, that the American Association of camp.28 He was the only AAI member to die during the war, but Immunologists in meeting on April 6th and 7th, 1917, as a body and as individuals, offer their services and the facilities 24. Letter from Arthur F. Coca to Geoffrey Edsall, 30 August 1915. AAI Archives. 25. Arthur F. Coca, “AFC History beginning of Journal of Immunology,” undated [c. 1951]. of their laboratories to the Federal and respective State AAI Archives. governments; and, 26. For more detail on the pandemic influenza research during the First World War, see John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Penguin Books: New York, 2005); Alfred W. Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: Be it further Resolved, that the secretary of the American The Influenza of 1918, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press: New York, 2003); Dorothy A. Pettit and Janice Bailie, A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918–1920 Association of Immunologists send a copy of this resolution to (Timberlane Books: Murfreesboro, TN, 2008). the Secretary of War. 27. Letter from Willard J. Stone to John A. Kolmer, 24 December 1917. AAI Archives. Fort Riley has been identified by some historians as Ground Zero for the pandemic influenza. Many members of AAI and others in the medical and scientific 28. The New York Times, “Major R. Weil Dies at Camp Wheeler”, 20 November 1917. See also; “Major Richard Weil, M.O.R.C,” The Journal of Immunology 3, no. 1 (1918): IN1-vii. community quickly joined the war effort. AAI President Weil

28 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org his death dealt AAI a profound loss. At its fifth annual meeting The AAI annual meeting has evolved from 60 earnest in 1918, AAI passed a resolution honoring his legacy.29 scientists meeting for one day in Atlantic City to over 3,500 The year 1920 marked another important year in the history scientists meeting for 5 days in selected major cities around the of AAI. It was in that year that the New York Society for United States. In 2011, 1,768 scientific abstracts were presented; Serology and Hematology (SSH) and AAI were merged. SSH 160 speakers were featured in symposia and other sessions; had “omitted its monthly meeting for over a year and, since the 130 scientific companies occupied the exhibit floor; and galas, function of the societies had been in a measure superseded by receptions, and parties were held almost every evening. the American Association of Immunologists, it was deemed Every year, hundreds of AAI members work on behalf of their advisable to consolidate the societies.”30 Its members were colleagues as members of the The JI Editorial Board, session provided the option of AAI membership. This event added chairs at the annual meeting, speakers and course instructors, significantly to the size of the organization by adding a number and members or chairs of committees. of SSH members to the AAI rolls.31 The absorption of SSH by The association is overseen by the AAI Council, eight of the AAI eliminated the only other organization in the United States most prestigious members, elected to their positions by the “having interest in immunological matters.”32 Additionally, membership. The AAI is professionally managed by a hired The JI became the “property and official organ” of AAI.33 staff with diverse expertise including scientists who are AAI By the close of 1920, AAI boasted a membership of 152 members. physicians and scientists from 22 states, the District of Each year, AAI gives approximately 500 grants and awards Columbia, and Canada, including 16 women members.34 The to talented early- and mid-career scientists to cultivate membership included the preeminent American scientists the next generation of leaders and investigators, and AAI and physicians Simon Flexner, Theobald Smith, Oswald Avery, recognizes the most senior and accomplished members with Hans Zinsser, Rufus Cole, Victor Vaughn, William H. Park, a variety of career awards. Through the annual meeting, The Anna Williams, Elise L’Esperance, and George McCoy (the first Journal of Immunology, courses, and the work of its many director of the National Institutes of Health35). Within the next committees, AAI continues to push forward the boundaries of ten years, the membership was to include Karl Landsteiner, knowledge in the field and improve the quality of professional Hideyo Noguchi, Karl F. Meyer, Paul DeKruif, and Bela Shick. life for its members. AAI provides a strong central voice for AAI was now fulfilling Webb’s and other founders’ earliest immunologists, bringing members’ science and issues to the vision for the society. The membership was inclusive and attention of policymakers, funding agencies, and the public. flexible, with clinicians, researchers, and public health Not even Synnott could possibly have imagined what that scientists. With the successful founding of AAI and the first meeting on a hot summer day in Minneapolis would bring. preeminence of The JI, the standing of immunology as a distinct discipline of science was broadly recognized by the 1920s. Today, AAI is the largest, most prestigious professional association for immunologists worldwide, with approximately 7,500 members in 60 countries. The society fulfills its founders’ ideals in today’s mission to “promote by its concerted efforts 29. John A. Kolmer, Martin H. Synnott, A. Parker Hitchens, “Resolutions upon the Death of scientific research” in immunology through a dedication Dr. Richard Weil,” 30 March 1918. AAI Archives. to advancing the knowledge of immunology and its related 30. Letter from David J. Kalinski to “Members of the Society for Serology and Hematology” c. 1920. AAI Archives. disciplines, fostering the interchange of ideas and information 31. The actual number of SSH members who joined AAI in 1920 is unclear. The official among investigators, and addressing the potential integration of records state that 19 SSH members joined AAI that year. However, there were an additional 56 eligible SSH members who were provided the opportunity to join, and immunologic principles into clinical practice. Since the society’s some of them did, including Elise L’Esperance and future AAI President Lemuel W. founding 99 years ago, 19 AAI members have been awarded the Famulener. No official documentation survives for the exact total or dates of election to AAI of the 56 eligible SSH members. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 45 have received Lasker 32. Coca, “AFC History beginning of Journal of Immunology.” Awards, and two have been awarded the Kyoto Prize. 33. Minutes of the Meeting of the Council of The American Association of Immunologists, 31 March 1920. AAI Archives. The Journal of Immunology has maintained a level of noted 34. The total membership numbers are the most conservative based on the existing prominence in the field—if not all of bioscience—for almost documents in the AAI Archive. Membership in AAI was counted only where election results are verifiable. The most problematic years in reconstructing total AAI one century. As the largest journal in the field, it has been membership are 1919 and 1920. The AAI council records, which include elections and resignations, from 1919 are completely missing and the records for SSH members dedicated to consistently featuring important and innovative joining AAI in 1920 are incomplete. research across a breadth of topics. With over 150 editors and 35. The Ransdell Act (1930) reorganized, expanded, and renamed the Hygienic Laboratory (created in 1887) as the National Institutes of Health. Joseph J. Kinyoun founded and 4,000 volunteer reviewers, The JI provides full peer review for was the first director of the Hygienic Laboratory, serving from 1887 to 1899. the more than 3,500 manuscripts submitted annually.

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he 18 scientists who met in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Other science presented June 22, 1914, for the first AAI annual meeting werea at the meeting perhaps Tmere handful compared with attendance today, yet provided a firmer the scientific basis of later AAI annual meetings was already foundation for future evident at this first meeting. work and discoveries The attendees discussed a diverse range of topics that would in the field. Several help define the new field of immunology. As most of the early scientists, including F. M. AAI members were clinicians, and as communicable diseases, Pottenger of Monrovia, which today are easily curable, were still a public health California, and Jacob menace, many of the presentations at the meeting focused Bronfenbrenner of on public health issues of the time—and, not surprisingly, the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, topics (and terminology) examined in these early years were gave presentations on rather different from those today. Presentations included the merits of tuberculin examinations of “specific ferments” produced by cells against therapy—the treatment bacteria, a comparison of available diagnostic tests for of tuberculosis with syphilis, a study of complement fixation tests to determine extracts of its bacterial the causative bacterium in infective arthritis deformans, and cultures. Although an examination of the intraspinal treatment of syphilis with the therapy had not salvarsan, an organoarsenic and anti-syphilitic compound been curative, they then in use. debated whether the The early science was not without its missteps. The meeting poor efficacy was a began with several presentations on the Aberhalden Test, result of differences a test based on “defensive,” specific proteases formed by in animal models exposure of cells to a foreign protein and thought to be vs. human patients

Image provided by the AAI Archive diagnostic of pregnancy, infection, and cancer. Although or the strain from the theory of defensive proteases was not supported by later which the tuberculin was work, and the pregnancy test developed by Aberhalden was isolated. Although this therapy never became the standard of ultimately found to be unreliable, William Whitridge Williams care, due to inconsistent application and considerable side and Clarence B. Ingraham, both of Denver, Colorado, effects, its deficiencies did inform later immunotherapies for concluded in their presentation on the Aberhalden Pregnancy tuberculosis. Test that the test “might be considered a definite and reliable Of course, as remains true today, several talks at the meeting reaction.” However, there was some disagreement among dealt with technical innovations, such as a technique for the attending scientists about the nature of the “ferments” preparing bacterial vaccines pure of extraneous proteins from produced by cells upon contact with a foreign organism or culture media or a method for culturing infected tissue from protein and whether they were arthritis patients. protease- or antibody- The scientists at the first AAI annual meeting presented their based. findings, secure in the knowledge that these studies were of critical import to the future of human health. Gerald B. Webb asserted the importance of the organization and the field in the first AAI Presidential Address when he “agreed with [Sir Almroth E.] Wright that the physician of the future would be an immunologist.”

Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic City, N.J., location of the first AAI annual meeting

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www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 31 Meetings Calendar Mark your calendar with these important dates!

June 7-10, 2012 June 23-27, 2012 2012 Trypsin-like Proteases: Structure, CYTO 2012: XXVII Congress of Function and Regulation the International Society for the May 21-23, 2012 Tahoe City, CA Advancement of Cytometry 12th International Conference on http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMBMeetings/ Leipzig, Germany Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders SpecialSymposia/symposia.aspx?mid=21 http://www.cytoconference.org/pages/ New York, NY upload/file/save%20the%20date%20 http://www.nyas.org/MG12 June 10-14, 2012 flyer2012.pdf Summer School in Computational May 23-25, 2012 Immunology June 24-29, 2012 10th Annual Meeting of the Association Rochester, NY FASEB Biology of the Immune System for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT): https://cbim.urmc.rochester.edu/ Snowmass Village, CO Towards Next-Generation Immunotherapy education/2012-summer-school http://www.faseb.org/src/Home/Conferences/ Mainz, Germany Future-Conferences.aspx http://meeting.cimt.eu/g June 10-15, 2012 Gordon Research Conference on June 27-29, 2012 May 31-June 2, 2012 Immunochemistry & Immunobiology Mitochondria: Energy, Signals and Fifth International Gamma-Delta T-Cell Les Diablerets, Switzerland Systems Conference http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=201 Lansing, MI Freiburg, Germany 2&program=immunochem http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMBMeetings/ http://www.gammadelta-conference.de/ SpecialSymposia/symposia.aspx?mid=22 June 15-18, 2012 June 2-5, 2012 Canadian Society for Immunology 25th June 28-29, 2012 2012 American Transplant Congress (AST) Annual Spring Meeting Summer Frontiers Symposium-Training Boston, MA Sheraton St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada the Innate Immunity: Immunological http://www.atcmeeting.org/ http://www.csi-sci.ca/ Memory in Innate Host Defense Nijmegen, The Netherlands June 4-8, 2012 June 18-21, 2012 http://www.innateimmunity.nl/ Development, Function and Repair of the 3rd Midyear Conference, International Muscle Cell Cytokine Society - IL-17 and Related July 9-25, 2012 New York, NY Cytokines: Basic Biology and Clinical 4th Summer Institute in Statistics and http://www.musclebiology.org/General_ Application Modeling in Infectious Diseases Information.html Dublin, Ireland Seattle, WA http://www.dublincytokines2012.com/ http://depts.washington.edu/sismid/index. June 7-8, 2012 html 5th International Singapore Symposium June 21-23, 2012 of Immunology International Clinical Research July 14-19, 2012 University Town, Singapore Conference on Ataxia-Telangiectasia AAI Introductory Course in Immunology http://www.sgsi2012.org/ 2012 Philadelphia, PA Cambridge, UK http://aai.org/Education/Courses/Intro/ http://www.atsociety.org.uk/ index.html

32 AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 www.aai.org July 19-23, 2012 September 12-14, 2012 October 28-30, 2012 Society for Developmental Biology 71st Colorado Immunology Conference 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Annual Meeting Vail, CO Leukocyte Biology,“Inflammation in Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/ Innate Immunity and Adaptive Immune http://www.sdbonline.org/2012Mtg.htm colleges/medicalschool/departments/ Mechanisms” immunology/events/Pages/2012Immunology Grand Wailea, Maui, HI July 21-25, 2012 ConferenceSchedule.aspx http://www.leukocytebiology.org/ The American Society for Virology 31st Annual Scientific Meeting September 25-28, 2012 November 6-10, 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Alternatives to Antibiotics (ATA) American Society of Human Genetics http://www.asv.org/ World Organization for Animal Health San Francisco, CA Paris, France Contact: [email protected] July 22-28, 2012 http://www.alternativestoantibiotics.org/ 20th Annual International Conference November 16-19, 2012 on Composites or Nano Engineering October 4-8, 2012 AIC 2012: 41st Annual Autumn Beijing, China Transcriptional Regulation: Chromatin Immunology Conference http://www.icce-nano.org/ and RNA Polymerase II Chicago, IL Snowbird, UT http://autumnimmunology.org/ July 29-August 3, 2012 http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMBMeetings/ AAI Advanced Course in Immunology SpecialSymposia/symposia.aspx?mid=24 November 28-December 1, 2012 Boston, MA 6th Asian Congress of Pediatric http://aai.org/Education/Courses/Advanced/ October 9-11, 2012 Infectious Diseases (ACPID 2012) index.html La Jolla Immunology Conference Colombo, Sri Lanka La Jolla, CA http://www.acpid2012.org/ August 19-21, 2012 http://liai.org Cell Symposia on Human Immunity December 2-4, 2012 Sheraton Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal October 11-14, 2012 2012 CRWAD Meeting: Conference of http://www.cell-symposia-human-immunity. Post Translational Modifications: Research Workers in Animal Diseases/ com/ Detection and Physiological Role American Association of Veterinary Tahoe City, CA Immunologists September 4-9, 2012 http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMBMeetings/ Chicago, IL Frontiers in Lipid Biology SpecialSymposia/symposia.aspx?mid=25 http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mip/crwad/ Banff, Alberta, Canada http://www.asbmb.org/ASBMBMeetings/ October 12-16, 2012 December 15-19, 2012 SpecialSymposia/symposia.aspx?mid=23 ASBMR 34th Annual Meeting 2012 American Society for Cell Biology Minneapolis, MN Annual Meeting September 5-8, 2012 http://www.asbmr.org/ San Francisco, CA European Congress of Immunology 2012 http://www.ascb.org/ Glasgow, Scotland October 21-24, 2012 http://eci-glasgow2012.com/ 14th Annual Upstate New York Immunology Conference 2013 September 11-15, 2012 Bolton Landing, NY 10th Joint ICS/ISICR Meeting-Cytokines: http://www.amc.edu/NYIC/index.html January 26-29, 2013 From Basic Biology to Clinical 52nd Midwinter Conference of Application October 27-28, 2012 Immunologists Geneva, Switzerland New England Immunology Conference Pacific Grove, CA http://www.cytokines2012.com/ Woods Hole, MA http://www.midwconfimmunol.org/ http://neic.uche.edu

www.aai.org AAI Newsletter May/June 2012 33 February 13-17, 2013 August 22-27, 2013 2013 BMT Tandem Meeting 15th International Congress of 2015 Salt Lake City, UT Immunology http://www.cibmtr.org/Meetings/Tandem/ Milan, Italy February 11-15, 2015 index.html http://www.ici2013.org/ 2015 BMT Tandem Meeting San Diego, CA April 5-8, 2013 October 4-8, 2013 http://www.cibmtr.org/Meetings/Tandem/ Canadian Society for Immunology ASBMR 35th Annual Meeting index.htm 26th Annual Spring Meeting Baltimore, MD TELUS Whistler Conference Centre, Whistler, http://www.asbmr.org/ March 28-April 1, 2015 British Columbia, Canada Experimental Biology (EB) http://www.csi-sci.ca/ Boston, MA 2014 Contact: [email protected] April 20-24, 2013 Experimental Biology (EB) February 19-23, 2014 May 8-12 Boston, MA 2014 BMT Tandem Meeting IMMUNOLOGY 2015™ Contact: [email protected] Orlando, FL AAI Annual Meeting http://www.cibmtr.org/Meetings/Tandem/ New Orleans, LA May 18-21, 2013 index.html http://aai.org/Meetings/Future_Meeting.html 2013 American Transplant Congress (AST) April 26-30, 2014 July 11-15, 2015 Seattle, WA Experimental Biology (EB) The American Society for Virology 34th http://www.atcmeeting.org/ San Diego, CA Annual Scientific Meeting Contact: [email protected] The University of Western Ontario, London, May 3-7, 2013 Ontario, Canada IMMUNOLOGY 2013™ May 2-6, 2014 http://www.asv.org/ AAI Centennial & AAI Annual Meeting IMMUNOLOGY 2014™ Honolulu, HI AAI Annual Meeting October 9-13, 2015 http://www.IMMUNOLOGY2013.org Pittsburgh, PA ASBMR 37th Annual Meeting http://aai.org/Meetings/Future_Meeting.html Seattle, WA May 19-23, 2013 http://www.asbmr.org/ CYTO 2013 (International Society for May 17-21, 2014 Advancement of Cytometry) CYTO 2014 (International Society for San Diego, CA Advancement of Cytometry) Contact: [email protected] Ft. Lauderdale, FL Contact: [email protected] July 7-10, 2013 14th International TNF Conference June 21-25, 2014 Loews Le Concorde, Quebec City, Quebec, The American Society for Virology Canada 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting http://www.tnf2013.com/ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO http://www.asv.org/ July 20-24, 2013 The American Society for Virology September 12-16, 2014 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting ASBMR 36th Annual Meeting Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA Houston, TX http://www.asv.org/ http://www.asbmr.org/

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