AAI Announces Recipients of 2019
Career Reentry Fellowships

AAI congratulates 5 members selected to receive AAI Career Reentry Fellowships in 2019. The AAI Fellowship Program for Career Reentry provides one year of postdoctoral salary support for immunologists to reenter the workforce after a lapse of research or research training due to medical leave or family circumstances.

Details about this program may be found here.

The postdoctoral fellows selected for the 2019 Career Reentry Fellowships are:

	Miriam Fein, Ph.D. (AAI '18) Cold Spring Harbor National Laboratory Mentor: Semir Beyaz, Ph.D. (AAI '18), Principal Investigator Project: Regulation of MHC-II expression in intestinal tumor formation in mice exposed to a high-fat diet
	Iryna Kolosenko, Ph.D. (AAI '19) Yale University School of Medicine Mentor: Chris Cotsapas, Ph.D. (AAI '18), Associate Professor Project: NFκB activation and nuclear translocation responses to stimulation of naïve CD4-positive T cells
	Abdul Gafoor Puthiyaveetil, D.V.M., Ph.D. (AAI '19) University Health Network Mentor: Stephen C. Juvet, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI '18), Assistant Professor Project: Treg-pulmonary microvascular endothelial interaction and alloimmune regulation in the lung microenvironment
	Carmen Taveras, Ph.D. (AAI '19) University of Queensland Mentor: Antje Blumenthal, Ph.D. (AAI '17), Associate Professor Project: Defining the role of the RP105 intracellular domain in host control of mycobacterial infection
	Charise White, Ph.D. (AAI '19) University of North Carolina, Charlotte Mentor: Hansang Cho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Project: Recruitment of macrophages and microglia in Alzheimer's disease

The American Association of Immunologists annually honors the research achievements and professional promise of over 1,000 scientists through fellowships, career awards, and travel grants. The Career Reentry Fellowship Program is one of two new fellowship programs launched by AAI in 2018. To learn about all AAI awards and grants, visit www.aai.org/Awards.