AAI Vanguard Award and Lecture
Nominations are closed
Based on nomination made by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee, this award recognizes AAI member investigators who are underrepresented in U.S. biomedical science.
The awardee will receive a $5,000 cash prize, meeting registration at the early rate, and travel support to the AAI annual meeting for presentation of their research in an award lecture preceded by the award presentation.
2025 Vanguard Award Recipient
Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’09)
Duke School of Medicine
Modulating NKT cells for cancer immunotherapy