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Thursday December 19, 2024

Many congratulations to the following people for receiving our prestigious ASI Awards and Special Honours.

🏆 ASI SPECIAL HONOURS

Honorary Life Membership
Lynn Corcoran
Anthony Cunningham
Ken Shortman
Jonathan Sprent

Rowley Medallist
David Tarlinton

Foundation Lecturer
Antony Basten

Burnet Oration
Carola Vinuesa

Doherty Medallists
Susan Christo
Carolien van de Sandt

🏆 ASI AWARDS

Breakthrough Immunology Awards
Etienne Masle-Farquhar
​Zhoujie Ding

Margaret Baird Women in Immunology Award
Charis Teh

ASI Women's Initiative Travel Awards
Kunyu Li 
Zhoujie Ding
Kavita Bisht
Khalida Perveen

Career Advancement Award - Jacques Miller
Roslyn Kemp

Career Advancement Award - Gordon Ada
C. Mee Ling Munier
Lucille Rankin
​Catarina F dos Santos Sa e Almeida

Career Advancement Award - Postdoctoral 
Praveena Thirunavukkarasu
Rukshan Ahamed B Wedaralalage Gedara Mohamed Raseek

Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate
Becca Henry

Career Advancement Award - Mid Career
Katharina Robichon
Kavita Bisht

ASI Cheers-Buchan Education Award
Jessica Borger

ASI Global Outreach Award
Akanksha Verma
Prerna Mudai

Public Engagement Award
Andrew Harman

ASI Annual Scientific Meeting Carer's Grant
Resty Nabeeta
Kevin Ly
Simranpreet Kaur
Saba Asad

Travel Awards - Ada
Asolina Braun
Kerrie Sandgren
Kok Fei (Jimmy) Chan

Travel Awards - Postdoctoral
Georgia Atkin-Smith
Shouya Feng
Harry Horsnell
Xiaoxiao Jia
Isabelle Montgomerie
Jack Polmear
Yomani Sarathkumara
Erica Stewart
Jacqueline Tearle
Cynthia Turnbull
Ying Wong

Travel Awards - Postgraduate
Zahra Abbas
Takahiro Asatsuma
Sean Cutter
Alessia Hysa
Anita Kral
MengXiao Luo
Junli Nie
Andreas Obers
Nikita Rosendahl
Natalie Smith
Ha Tran
Samuel Widodo

🏆 ASI Journal Awards 

Immunology & Cell Biology Chris and Bhama Parish Publication of the Year Award
Lukasz Kedzierski et al
In Semliki Forest virus encephalitis, suppressor of cytokine signaling 4 (SOCS4) is an essential modulator of immune responses that mediates the balance between immunopathology and virus clearance

Immunology & Cell Biology Miltenyi Publication Award
Anouk von Borstel et al
Circulating effector γδ T cell populations are associated with acute coronavirus disease 19 in unvaccinated individuals

Clinical & Translational Immunology Publication of the Year Award
Jack Polmear et al
Targeting BMI-1 to deplete antibody-secreting cells in autoimmunity

Clinical & Translational Immunology Social Impact Award
Kirsty Short, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia. 
Elevated BMI reduces the humoral response to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Immunology & Cell Biology Social Impact Award
Anthony Bertrand
Jamie Sugrue 
Impact of socioeconomic status on healthy immune responses in humans.

🏆 ANNUAL MEETING AWARDS

ASI New Investigator Award Sponsored by Pfizer
Abigail Grootveld

BD Science Communication Award​
Shivali Savita Chinni

ASI Poster Awards
Xiao Jing Ong
Huw Morgan
Le Xiong

ASI Overall Poster Award
Christopher Jara

Pharmaxis-ASI Postdoctoral Award 
Rossana Azzoni

Graham Jackson Memorial Prize for Mucosal Immunology
Wang Cao

ASI Travel Bursaries - Mid Career
Catarina Almeida
Annabell Bachem
Katrina Binger
Kavita Bisht
Dominic De Nardo
Emily Edwards
Inken Kelch
Kunyu Li
Sotaro Ochiai
Stephanie Trend
Debbie Watson

ASI Travel Bursaries - Postdoctoral
Rukshan Ahamed B Wedaralalage Gedara Mohamed Raseek
Gesa Albers
Rossana Azzoni
Wang Cao
Xin Gao
Paul Gill
Sachith Gunasinghe
Harry Horsnell
Anne Huber
Margaret Jordan
Hannah Kelly
Kevin Ly
Rhiane Moody
Yomani Sarathkumara
Calvin Xu

ASI Travel Bursaries - Postgraduate

🏆 International Society Awards

Best Poster Award at FIMSA 2024 – Sponsored by Immunology & Cell Biology
Ye Lin Yang

Best Poster Award at FIMSA 2024 – Sponsored by Clinical & Translational Immunology
Ying-Chen Lin