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As the chair of Travel Award Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce the four winners of the 2019 Travel Awards sponsored by Vaccines. The awards were granted to Mr. Adam Cheng, Ph.D. student of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Carly May Bliss, postdoctoral research fellow of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mr. Joshua Gillard, Ph.D. student of Radboud University and Dr. Sasha Larsen, postdoctoral research fellow of the Infectious Disease Research Institute. The award recipients will receive 500 Swiss Francs each to support attendance at any academic conference related to vaccine studies in 2019.
The research interests of the awardees are presented below:
Mr. Adam Cheng: the mechanism of viral reactivation and oncogenesis in immunosuppressed patients.
Dr. Carly May Bliss: pre-clinical vaccine development for hepatitis C and influenza A, including mouse and rat models of infection, vaccination and virus challenge.
Mr. Joshua Gillard: human innate immune response to vaccination and controlled human infection.
Dr. Sasha Larsen: complex biological problems in the specialized fields of bacterial pathogenesis, as well as innate and adaptive immunity.
I would like to congratulate the winners and thank the selection committee for their excellent work in selecting the winners from such a large number of excellent candidate profiles.
Prof. Nirbhay Kumar Vaccines Editorial Office
Vaccines 2019 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Alessandro Pardini
University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland
Xin Du
University of California San Diego School of Medicine, CA, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Ralph Tripp
Chairman
Univ Georgia
Prof. Michael Bukrinsky
The George Washington University
Dr. Zixin Wang
JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Haval Shirwan
University of Louisville
Winner
Alexandra Dvorscek
Monash University, Australia
Eduard Puente-Massaguer
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Ralph Tripp
Chairman
Univ Georgia
Prof. Vasso Apostolopoulos
RMIT University
Prof. Michael Bukrinsky
The George Washington University
Prof. Antonella Caputo
Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Prof. Dr. Nancy Agmon Levin
SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER
Winner
Kyle O'Donnell
National Institutes of Health, MT, USA
Irene González Domínguez
Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Ralph Tripp
Chairman
Univ Georgia
Dr. Olga Borges
University of Coimbra
Dr. David Benfield
Prof. François Meurens
Swine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal
Dr. Toru Takimoto
University of Rochester Medical Center
Winner
Hee Chun Chung
Seoul National University, Korea
Alejandro Marin Lopez
Yale University, CT, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Ralph Tripp
Chairman
Univ Georgia
Dr. Marzena Pazgier
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Dr. Enric Mateu
Prof. Dr. JOSEPH BANOUB
DFO-SCIENCE BRANCH AND MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY
Winner
Carly May Bliss
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Joshua Gillard
Radboudumc, The Netherlands
Adam Cheng
University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Sasha Larsen
Infectious Disease Research Institute, WA , USA
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Nirbhay Kumar
Chairman
George Washington University
Prof. Andrew Pekosz
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Dr. Romain Paillot
Dr. Yoshihiko Hirohashi
Dept of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine.
Winner
Lynda Coughlan
Mount Sinai at IcahnSchool of Medicine, NY, USA
João Conniot
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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