The Milstein Young Investigator Awards
The Milstein Young Investigator Awards are bestowed upon individuals who have made an impact on interferon and cytokine research early in their careers. This year’s Milstein Awards were presented on Sept. 29, 2013 at the annual ICIS meeting in San Francisco, CA.
International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) members who attend the Annual Meeting of the ICIS and who have received a Ph.D. or M.D. within the previous 8 years are eligible. Every year up to five awards are granted to individuals who have made notable contributions to interferon and cytokine research, either in a basic or applied field. This award is provided by a generous gift of the Milstein Family.
ICIS members may apply themselves or nominate other members for Milstein Young Investigator Awards. Senior laboratory advisers are encouraged to have their associates apply. A curriculum vitae and letter of recommendation should accompany the application.
This year The Milstein Young Investigator Awards will be presented on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014 at the Annual Meeting of the ICIS in Melbourne, Australia.
The 2014 Young Investigators Award Winners:
2014 Milstein Young InvestigatorDr Dominic De Nardo
Institute of Innate Immunity
University Hospital
University of Bonn
2014 Milstein Young InvestigatorStacy Horner
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
2014 Milstein Young InvestigatorMaria Liaskos
Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases
MIMR-PHI Institute of Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia
2014 Milstein Young InvestigatorSeth Masters
Inflammation Division
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Victoria, Australia
2014 Milstein Young InvestigatorKate Schroder
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Previous Young Investigators Award Winners
2013 Milstein Young Investigator Award Winners
2013 Milstein Young Investigator | David LanglaisDavid Langlais
Dept. of Biochemistry
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
2013 Milstein Young Investigator | Hilario RamosHilario J Ramos
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA/Gilead Corp.
2013 Milstein Young Investigator | John SchogginsJohn W Schoggins
Department of Microbiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
2012 Milstein Young Investigator Award Winners
Taylor Cohen, Ph.D.
Columbia University
New York, USA
Babal Kant Jha, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio USA
Clare Slaney, Ph.D.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
East Melbourne, Australia
2011 Milstein Young Investigator Award Winners
Volker Fensterl, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland, Ohio USA
Ole Jensen Hamming, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
Yueh-Ming (Ming) Loo, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington USA
Mehul Suthar, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington USA
Gijs A. Versteeg, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York USA
2010 Milstein Young Investigator Award Winners
Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Molecular Genetics
Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland, Ohio USA
Yeonseok Chung, Ph.D.
Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Houston, Texas USA
Michael P. Gantier, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Centre for Cancer Research
Monash Institute of Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia
Ram Savan, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Laboratory of Experimental Immunology
National Cancer Institute-Frederick
Frederick, Maryland USA
Estanislao Nistal Villán, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Center for Applied Medicine (CIMA)
Universidad de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
2009 Milstein Young Investigator Award Winners
Niamh Mangan, Ph.D.
Centre for Innate Immunity
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Hiroki Ishikawa, Ph.D.
Cancer Center
University of Miami | Miami, Florida, USA
Ramtin Rahbar, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Xiao-Ling Li, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland | Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Benjamin tenOever, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York, USA
Young Investigators to Watch in 2014
Here are some of the emerging scientists in the field of interferon and cytokine research:
Dr Dominic De Nardo, Ph.D.
Dr Dominic De Nardo | Young Investigator Award Winner from Milstein-Award.org
Dr Dominic De Nardo received his PhD in 2009 from the University of Melbourne, Australia
Stacy Horner, Ph.D.
Stacy Horner | Young Investigator Award Winner from Milstein-Award.org
Dr. Stacy Horner is an Assistant Professor in the Molecular Genetics & Microbiology & Medicine departments at Duke University Medical Center
Maria Liaskos, Ph.D.
Maria Liaskos |
Young Investigator Award Winner from Milstein-Award.org
Dr Maria Kaparakis-Liaskos obtained her Ph.D from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne in 2005.
Seth Masters, Ph.D.
Seth Masters |
Young Investigator Award Winner from Milstein-Award.org
Dr Masters completed his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), which resulted in the first structure of the SPRY/B30.2 domain.
Kate Schroder, Ph.D.
Kate Schroder |
Young Investigator Award Winner from Milstein-Award.org
Kate Schroder's research focuses on the interactions between host and pathogen during the initial stages of infection and the development of inflammation.