The American Association of Immunologists is an association of scientists dedicated to advancing the knowledge of immunology.
@J_Immunol
&
@ImmunoHorizons
We are thrilled to announce our dynamic and vibrant new logo! The logo, introduced by AAI President
@VirusesImmunity
at IMMUNOLOGY2024™, reflects AAI’s forward-leaning approach and symbolizes progress and unity within the immunology community. Learn more
AAI is pleased to announce Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI '00), as its 2023–2024 president. Dr. Iwasaki, a distinguished immunologist and esteemed member of the AAI Council, will assume her role as president on July 1, 2023.
#AAI
#immunology
#womeninstem
After reviewing Arizona’s abortion law, which went into effect after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs, AAI has moved IMMUNOLOGY2024™ from Phoenix to Chicago. AAI issued a statement articulating its deep concern about the decision’s deleterious impact.
Congratulations to Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI ’00), who was appointed Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at the Yale School of Medicine.
@VirusesImmunity
The immune system remains a mystery for many people. That’s why AAI has created
#ImmunologyExplained
to help people understand the basics of the immune system, how it protects us from infection & disease, & how to support it throughout your life. Visit .
AAI believes that scientific and public health experts, including the trusted Dr. Anthony Fauci, are vital to combating COVID-19 and safely reopening the US. It’s important for all Americans to stand strongly behind them and take their advice.
#FollowTheScience
#IStandWithFauci
Congratulations to Diane Mathis, Ph.D. (AAI ’99), who
was named the inaugural winner of the
Menarini Prize for Outstanding Woman
Immunologist:
#womeninscience
#womeninstem
#immunology
BREAKING NEWS: The House just passed a bill that increases
@NIH
funding by $2.6 billion! Thanks to all who contacted their Reps…now contact your Senators!
#NIHfunding
#AAI
#immunology
Congratulations to AAI member Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, a 2021 co-recipient of the Robert Koch Award, which recognizes scientific researchers for outstanding & internationally recognized achievements.
#immunology
#womeninscience
Dr. Jenny Ting is the 2020-2021 AAI President--and our first woman of color elected to serve in this position! Read her President's Message to the membership here:
AAI strongly opposes Pres. Trump’s proposed ~12% (~$5b) cut to the NIH budget. This would devastate U.S. biomedical research, in part by funding 2,824 fewer Research Project Grants. Congress, please continue your strong bipartisan support for NIH and increase its budget instead!
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., DFAAI (AAI ’73), Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), was honored with the AAI Exceptional Leadership in Science Award on May 10. Read the full announcement:
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. While many serious diseases are no longer common in the United States thanks to vaccines, these diseases still exist and can spread when people aren’t vaccinated.
#ivax2protect
#AAI
#immunology
#vaccines
AAI proudly celebrates President Akiko Iwasaki's inclusion in TIME's 2024 list of 100 most influential people. Her groundbreaking research on viral infections, including COVID-19, and advocacy for public health make her a true inspiration.
#immunology
Today, AAI issued a statement opposing two actions recently taken by President Trump: withdrawing the U.S. from the
@WHO
and issuing a Proclamation that disallows visas for certain Chinese students and researchers. Read the full statement here:
On International Day of Immunology, it's interesting to look back at another
#pandemic
, and another public health official who recommended containment restrictions:
#DayofImmunology
It's
#AAPIHM
& AAI is proud to spotlight Dr. Jenny Ting, the first woman of color & Asian American woman to lead as president. Read Dr. Ting's recent statement condemning violence & discrimination against the
#AAPI
community:
#AAPIHM
#StopAAPIHate
AAI is pleased to welcome attendees to IMMUNOLOGY2022™! We look forward to seeing everyone who has traveled to Portland for our first in-person annual meeting since 2019, and to the exciting sessions and events planned for you!
#AAI2022
The U.S. Senate just passed the House bill that increases
@NIH
funding by $2.6 billion! If the President signs the bill (as expected), NIH will see this robust increase for FY 2020.
#FundNIH
#RallyMedResearch
Congratulations to Russel E. Vance (AAI ’10), who is 2020 co-recipient of the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic & Tumor Immunology. He is recognized for contributions to the discovery & characterization of the cGAS-STING pathway.
Immunologist
@VirusesImmunity
studies how the immune system recognizes & interacts w/ viruses. She pioneered vaccine strategies to establish whole-body immunity to herpes simplex viruses & SARS-CoV2.
#ThankYouImmunology
Learn how vaccines are approved!
Don't miss the special session, "Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons from COVID-19" with Dr. Anthony Fauci today at 7 PM. Level 3, Ballroom AB.
Register today for the White House summit on the future of COVID-19 vaccines via livestream on Tuesday, July 26th at 11 a.m., featuring AAI Council Vice President Akiko Iwasaki.
Don’t miss the special lecture featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Linda Saif, and Dr. Akiko Iwasaki at Virtual IMMUNOLOGY2021™ May 10–15! Learn more at
#AAI2021
#immunology
AAI would like to recognize all those around the world who are dedicated to developing a vaccine and effective treatments or are providing patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. We thank you for your tireless efforts, dedication, and sacrifice.
AAI proudly celebrates the accomplishments of Black immunologists! In this 2-min video, Dr. Keke Fairfax talks about her research in type 2 immunity & her commitment to advancing equity, diversity & inclusion.
#immunology
#BlackinImmuno
#BlackHistoryMonth
Visit the AAI booth today (725) at 11:30 to meet AAI President Akiko Iwasaki, one of
@TIME
magazine's most influential people of 2024!
#AAI2024
@VirusesImmunity
The White House is holding a summit tomorrow on the future of COVID-19 vaccines from 11:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. ET. We're excited to see that AAI Vice President Akiko Iwasaki will be speaking!
Sincere thank you to many of you who reached out to
@POTUS
and
@WHCOVIDResponse
in support of our efforts on nasal booster vaccine 🙏🏼
I will be speaking at the White House Summit on Future of COVID-19 Vaccines on July 26.
RSVP to join via livestream:
Thanks to the DTaP vaccine, few Americans today know what a horrible disease diphtheria is. At the turn of the 20th century, it was known as “the strangling angel of children.” Read up on it during National Immunization Awareness Month.
#ivax2protect
#niam
AAI Congratulates Distinguished Lecturer Carla V. Rothlin. Her lecture, "Principles of resolving and non-resolving inflammation," is today at 6:00 PM, Level 3, Ballroom AB.
#AAI2023
Don’t miss the President’s Program at IMMUNOLOGY2024™! AAI President Akiko Iwasaki will give her address on May 3, and the President’s Symposium will take place on May 6. Learn more about the sessions available for IMMUNOLOGY2024™.
#immunology
#AAI2024
Hib meningitis killed over 1,000 children a day worldwide before John B. Robbins & Rachel Schneerson developed a vaccine for it—now US cases are literally one in a million. AAI supports National Immunization Awareness Month!
#niam
#ivax2protect
#AAIHistory
Every year thousands of adults in the U.S. are hospitalized because of diseases that vaccines can help prevent. August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Learn more about life-saving vaccines today.
#ivax2protect
#AAI
#immunology
#vaccines
.
At IMMUNOLOGY2023™: Celebrate this year’s AAI Lifetime Achievement Awardee Lewis L. Lanier at 5 PM, Level 3, Ballroom AB. This award recognizes a remarkable career of scientific achievement and contributions to AAI and the field of immunology.
#AAI2023
Happy International Day of Immunology! Please join us in saying thank you to all the immunologists around the world who are studying, developing, and working hard to find cures for diseases that still affect us today.
#DayofImmunology
Learn more today!
The first African American professor at Harvard, William A. Hinton, was an immunologist who developed a new flocculation test of syphilis in 1927, and established a laboratory technician training school for women.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#immunology
#TBT
Join us as we congratulate the 2023 Excellence in Mentoring Awardee Yasmine Belkaid at the awards presentation today at 12:30 pm, Level 3, Ballroom AB
#AAI2023
By the 1950s, polio disabled an average of 35,000 Americans a year. Thanks to vaccines developed by immunologists Jonas Salk & Albert Sabin, polio has been eradicated in all but two countries.
#ThankYouImmunology
Learn how vaccines are approved today!
Don’t miss President Akiko Iwasaki's address at IMMUNOLOGY2024™, 5pm in W375AB, where she will make an exciting announcement. Plus, help us celebrate Gary Koretzy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
#AAI2024
AAI is accepting applications for the 2020 Fellowship for Career Reentry thru Sept. 1, 2020, which provides salary support to postdocs who have taken a leave of absence for family-related issues, medical absences, or military obligations.
#CareersAAI
On this day 64 years ago, the 1st successful polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk (AAI ‘47) was announced to the world. The trials of the vaccine were overseen by Thomas Francis, Jr. (AAI ’30, president 1949–50). See original 1955 news reel:
#AAIHistory
It is International Day of Women & Girls in Science, and AAI is recognizing some female members! Juliet Morrison says, "I’m proud to be a scientist because it is a challenging and intellectually fulfilling career!” Visit for more quotes!
Fantastic article on
@statnews
today about AAI Council Member Akiko Iwasaki (AAI '00): "At the top of her field, a Covid-19 researcher fights back against a different kind of virus: sexism and power imbalances in science"
@VirusesImmunity
The first African American professor at Harvard, William A. Hinton, was an immunologist who developed a new flocculation test of syphilis in 1927 & established a laboratory technician training school for women.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#immunology
#BlackinImmuno
Congratulations to AAI Council member Dr. Mark Davis, who is a co-recipient of the 2021 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research for discovery of the structure of the T-cell receptor.
James Allison: “I think deep down most people in science do it because they’d like to be the first person on the planet who really knows something, you know. ‘I understand this for the first time.’”
For the full interview:
AAI member John H. Wallace (AAI 1958), who was one of the only Black microbiologists in the U.S. at the time, helped open Morehouse College of Medicine and dedicated himself to recruiting African Americans into careers in science.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#immunology
#BlackinImmuno
Congratulations to
#AAI
member Kate A. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. (AAI ’06), who has been admitted to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic distinction in Ireland, as an honorary member.
Congratulations to AAI members Max D. Cooper,
@EmoryMedicine
, and Jacques Miller,
@WEHI_research
. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation has honored them with the 2019 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award!
#immunology
The first woman president of AAI was Rebecca Lancefield in 1961, after 44 men. It was 21 years before Marian Koshland was the second. Since 2000, however, fully half of the AAI presidents have been women.
#InternationalWomensDay
#AAIHistory
Congratulations to Carrie L. Lucas, Ph.D. (AAI ’16), who has been named 2020 recipient of the Christina Fleischmann Award for Young Women Investigators!
Today, AAI Committee on Public Affairs Chair Ross Kedl, Ph.D., issued a statement on behalf of AAI strongly opposing President Trump's proposed $3 billion budget cut to NIH for FY 2021. Read Dr. Kedl's full statement here:
Dr. Anthony Fauci (AAI ’73) has generously given his time to meet with AAI Council & staff to discuss immunology & public health. The Council recently honored Dr. Fauci with a standing ovation for 50+ years of dedicated federal service & extraordinary scientific leadership.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month! Raising awareness has always been a crucial element of getting shots in arms. AAI is proud to support National Immunization Awareness Month.
#NIAM
#ivax2protect
We are pleased to announce the twelfth class of AAI Public Policy Fellows, who began their one-year fellowship on May 1. The AAI Public Policy Fellows Program (PPFP) engages early career researchers in AAI advocacy activities and culminates in a Capitol Hill Day in D.C.
Today, the AAI leadership issued a statement expressing deep concern about “reports of significant and increasing political interference by the Administration in efforts by . . . CDC and FDA . . . to keep the public safe” during the COVID-19 pandemic. See
Congratulations to Judy Lieberman, M.D., Ph.D., Feng Shao, Ph.D., and Vishva Dixit, M.D. , who have received the William B. Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute.
#immunology
#coleyaward
@CancerResearch
Immunologist Maurice Hilleman developed 40 vaccines, 8 of which are life-saving routine infant immunizations—including the MMR, chickenpox, and meningitis vaccines. Hilleman’s vaccines save nearly 8 million lives a year.
#ThankYouImmunology
Learn more:
Watch as AAI Council Member Dr. Akiko Iwasaki reflects on why she loves the field of immunology—including her passion for developing a mucosal vaccine for SARS-CoV-2.
Don’t miss the President’s Program at IMMUNOLOGY2024™! President Akiko Iwasaki will give her address entitled, “Learning Immunology from Viral Infections.” For information on speakers and topics, visit .
#AAI2024
#immunology
San Diego is an immunology research powerhouse in large part due to Ellen Browning Scripps. Her many donations helped establish both the Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Scripps Research.
#womenshistorymonth
#immunology
#womeninscience
Together with my friend Carla Rothlin we are launching Global Immunotalks 2020
#globalimmuno
To be held Wednesdays 9 am PST starting 4/22
ZOOM:
Schedule at
Hoping to benefit
#immunology
community globally Please pass the word!
AAI Intro Course to Immunology Instructor Shane Crotty speaks with attendees after his lecture on "B Cell Activation and Humoral Immunity."
#AAICourses2022
IMMUNOLOGY2022™ will be held May 6–10, 2022—and Registration is now open!!! Register by March 29, 2022, to receive the early registration discount! For more information, visit
#AAI2022
#immunology
#ThisIsPortland
Free childcare for
#IMMUNOLOGY2024
™ attendees! AAI offers childcare services for kids aged 3 months to 12 years at no cost. Register by April 18. Limited spots available, first-come, first-served. Secure your spot now!
#immunology
#AAI2024
AAI member James P. Allison, Ph.D. (AAI ’78) is featured in a documentary that is getting rave reviews! AAI gave the filmmakers permission to reprint images of titles of Allison articles that were published in
@J_Immunol
, so these appear in the film!
Effective today, all applications submitted to NIH must include a data management and sharing plan. AAI has developed "Resources and Recommendations" and a detailed "Guide" to help immunologists comply with this new policy. See: and
AAI is pleased to announce the appointment of Gail A. Bishop as the incoming editor-in-chief of The JI! Her 5-year term will commence Jan 1, 2024.
#AAI
#immunology
#ReadtheJI