Current Research

The AAAAI Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2020 Faculty Development Awards! These annual awards of $240,000 each provide strategic funding at a critical point in their career development. Congratulations, awardees!

Mark Gorelik, MD
The AAAAI Foundation & Richard F. Lockey, MD, MS, FAAAAI & USF A/I Program Faculty Development Award
Project: Follistatin Like-1 Protein is a Modulator of Immune Response in Inflammatory Vasculitis
Columbia University School of Medicine
$240,000 paid over 3 years
Award Term: July 2020 - June 2023

Onyinye I. Iweala, MD PhD
Project: Glycolipids and Invariant Natural Killer T Cells in Alpha-gal Syndrome
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$240,000 paid over 3 years
Award Term: July 2020 - June 2023

Michael G. Sherenian, MD
Project: The Role of Hemostasis in Atopic Dermatitis
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
$240,000 paid over 3 years
Award Term: July 2020 - June 2023

Jeffrey Wilson, MD PhD
Project: Investigations into the Glycolipid form of the Mammalian Oligosaccharide Galactose-a-1,3-Galactose (a-Gal) as an Agent of IgE-mediated Delayed Anaphylaxis and Atherosclerosis
University of Virginia
$240,000 paid over 3 years
Award Term: July 2020 - June 2023