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 Sunday, October 9th at the annual ISICR meeting in Florence, Italy.  See www.cytokines2011.it for more information.

International Society of Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR) members who attend the Annual Meeting of the ISICR 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.

ISICR 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.

The application deadline for 2011 Milstein Young Investigator Awards has now passed. Applications for 2012 will be available in January, 2012.

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