Currently Funded Awards
During 2025, the AAAAI Foundation will support 14 Faculty Development Awardees and two AAAAI Foundation Awards to Sustain Research Excellence Awardees. The funding for these awards is only possible through continued support from our donors. Consider making a gift today.
AAAAI Foundation Awards to Sustain Research Excellence Awardees
2024/2025
Sarah E. Henrickson, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
"Amplified STAT3 Signaling Drives CD8 T cell Dysfunction in STAT3 Gain of Function"
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Whitney Stevens, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
"Understanding Anaphylaxis to Platinum-Based Cancer Chemotherapy and Rapid Drug Desensitization that Enables its Use in Allergic Patients"
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Faculty Development Awardees
2024
Taylor Eddens, MD
“Neonatal Stem-Like CD4+ T Cells and Asthma Development After Early Life Viral Infection”
University of Pittsburgh
Award Term: July 2024 – June 2027
Matthew Krantz, MD
“A Translational Bioinformatics Approach for Deep Phenotyping and Genetic Risk of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reaction”
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Award Term: July 2024 – June 2027
Elise Liu, MD
“Invariant Natural Killer T Cells in the Development of Food Allergies”
Yale University
Award Term: July 2024 – June 2027
Erin Steinbach, MD
“Revealing the Mechanisms of Increased Intestinal Epithelial Cell Barrier Permeability in Peanut Allergy”
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Award Term: July 2024 – June 2027
2023
Sara Barmettler, MD
“Immunologic Impact and Risk for Infection in Patients with Secondary Hypogammaglobulinemia”
Massachusetts General Hospital
Award Term: July 2023 - June 2026
Santiago Alvarez-Arango, MD
“Pathogenesis of Non IgE-Mediated Immediate Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions”
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Award Term: July 2023 - June 2026
David Hill, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
“Contribution of Interferon-Mediated Epithelial Cell MHCII Expression to EoE”
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia|
Award Term: July 2023 - June 2026