Saturday, May 13, 2023 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM ET Room 202A
AAI ASPIRE Award Symposium
AAI President Mark M. Davis will introduce the awardees and present the awards immediately prior to the symposium.
Chairs
- Joan Goverman, Univ. of Washington, AAI Secretary-Treasurer
- Akiko Iwasaki, HHMI, Yale Sch. of Med., AAI Vice President
Award Recipients

Todd Bradley
Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Natural killer cell immunoregulation of the HIV-1 antibody response

Hitesh Deshmukh
Cincinnati Children’s Hosp. Med. Ctr.
Establishing lifelong trajectories of pulmonary health before and after birth

Rebecca Martin
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Targeting dendritic cell metabolism promotes allergen tolerance in asthma

Gabrielle Rizzuto
Mem. Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr.
Glycan-dependent mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance

Tuoqi Wu
Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.
Transcriptional regulation of long-term T-cell immunity

Melody Yue Zeng
Weill Cornell Med.
Immune regulation by the gut microbiome in early life
The AAI ASPIRE Awards recognize early career research accomplishments and professional promise in the field of immunology.