Currently Funded Awards
During 2020, the AAAAI Foundation will support 14 Faculty Development Awards. The support for these multi-year awards is only possible through continued support from our donors. Consider making a gift today.
2020
Mark Gorelik, MD
Project: Follistatin Like-1 Protein is a Modulator of Immune Response in Inflammatory Vasculitis
Columbia University School of Medicine
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
Award Term: July 2020 - June 2023
Michael G. Sherenian, MD
Project: The Role of Hemostasis in Atopic Dermatitis
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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
Award Term: July 2020 - June 2023
2019
Matthew C. Altman, MD, MPhil
University of Washington
Project: Regulatory Circuits Between Antiviral Type I Interferon and Th2-Type Inflammation in Pediatric Asthma
Award Term: July 2019 - June 2022
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Altman.
Maria J. Gutierrez, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Project: Antibody Secreting Cell Dysfunction and Infection Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Award Term: July 2019 - June 2022
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Gutierrez.
Paul J. Maglione, MD, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Project: How B Cell Developmental Defects Shape Manifestations of Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Award Term: July 2019 - June 2022
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Maglione.
Caroline L. Sokol, MD, PhD
The AAAAI Foundation & Dr. Donald Y. M. Leung/ JACI Editors Faculty Development Award
Massachusetts General Hospital Allergy Associates
Project: Innate Immune Control of Th2 Differentiation
Award Term: July 2019 - June 2022
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Sokol.
Want to learn more about our 2019 Award Recipients? Click here to read an editorial on our awardees from the June 2019 edition of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
2018
Lori Broderick, MD, PhD
UC San Diego
Project: Molecular Mechanisms of Immunodysregulatory Disorders
Award Term: July 2018-June 2021
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Broderick.
Sarah E. Henrickson, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project: Defining Exhaustion and Immunometabolic Alterations in Primary Immunodeficiency
Award Term: July 2018-June 2021
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Henrickson.
Adora A. Lin, MD, PhD
Children’s National Medical Center
Project: Elucidation of the Role of B Cells in Food Allergy, Sensitization, and Tolerance
Award Term: July 2018-June 2021
Click here to read our interview with Dr. Lin.
Want to learn more about our 2018 Award Recipients? Click here to read an editorial on our awardees from the July 2018 edition of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.