Please join us in congratulating Francesco Marangoni, PhD who received the 2026 Gina Lee Award for Excellence in Mentoring Basic Science Research Trainees – well done Francesco!
Matthew Griffin, an assistant professor in the University of California, Irvine Department of Chemistry, has received a 2026 Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of California Office of the President. Established in 2025, the award advances the university’s commitment to supporting the scholarship of early career faculty across the UC system. Each recipient receives a one-time $50,000 allocation to support a proposed research plan and related activities. The funding will support research in the Griffin Lab focused on how…
Please join us in congratulating Rachel Sousa, PhD who successfully defended her thesis on May 22nd – way to go Rachel!
Please join us in congratulating Tessa Chou in the Marsden Lab, who has been awarded a 3-year NIH Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) grant to support her graduate work studying HIV latency reversal agents. In other news, Tessa also recently received an ARCS (Advancing Science in America) Foundation Scholar Award, and was the…
LOS ANGELES—Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) is proud to announce the eighth cohort of recipients of its 2026 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, naming five early-career scientists whose research is advancing the future of human immunology. The program is supporting its largest cohort to date, awarding five early-career scientists $150,000 each to accelerate innovative work…
The 24th Annual UC Irvine Immunology Fair 2026 will be held on Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th. This year’s fair will feature three keynote speakers who are leaders in the field of immune tolerance: Fred Ramsdell, PhD Recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Founder and Scientific Advisor Sonoma Bio Daniel…
In October 2025, Lisa Wagar, PhD was invited to give a talk at the Scandinavian Society for Immunology annual meeting at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Wagar also gave a presentation at the student workshop. Congratulations Dr. Wagar!
Please join us in congratulating Nishad Maggirwar who was just awarded a 3-year NIH F31 fellowship!