The Immunology Institute is offering the opportunity for II Trainees (undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs) to apply for travel awards to scientific meetings and conferences. We will fund up to 3 trainees per term for up to $500 in support of their travel costs. Trainees must be giving an oral or poster presentation with immunologic relevance at the meeting, and after the conference, they will be required to present their talk at the Research In Progress in the Program in Immunology series or present their poster at the annual Immunology Institute Symposium and Vaccine Lecture.

Trainees may submit their requests three times per year – apply by April 1st for the summer term, August 1st for the Fall term and December 1st for the Spring term. We will select the awardees from the applications received and notify the recipients by email soon after the deadline. Selections per term will not be made until after the submission deadline. If your meeting occurs before or near the deadline, selections will not have been determined in time for your meeting.

The HSOM Immunology Institute is happy to announce recipients for the initial round of Immunology Institute Trainee Travel Awards. The Immunology Institute wants to support trainee (undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs) travel to conferences to present their immunology-relevant research. We will fund up to three trainees per term (Summer, Fall and Spring) for up to $500 in support of their travel costs, and the awardees will present their talk at the Research In Progress in the Program in Immunology series or present their poster at the annual Immunology Institute Symposium and Vaccine Lecture.
The first three recipients are:
Lance Benson in Jennifer Pollock’s laboratory attending the American Physiology Society Summit 2024 – “Sex Differences in T Cell Migration from the Spleen to the Kidney in Mice at Baseline and in Response to Angiotensin II Infusion”
Susana Cheetham in Troy Randall’s laboratory attending the American Association of Immunologists – “Influenza-specific lung-resident memory B cells assist CD4 and CD8 T cell recall responses during challenge infections”
Krishna Chinta in Adrie Steyn’s laboratory attending the Gordon Research Conference: Immunometabolism in Health and Disease – “Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection elicits glucose-dependent changes in neutrophil immunometabolism and effector functions”