Nominations for Honorary Lifetime Member, Young Investigator and Nowotny Awards.
An important part of every IEIIS conference is the selection of two distinguished researchers to receive Honorary Lifetime Memberships in the Society for outstanding career contributions to the knowledge and understanding of bacterial endotoxins and innate immunity. Recipients of this honor receive an attractive award and are granted a permanent exemption from dues and meeting registration fees, while retaining all the rights and privileges of active membership. Nominations for Honorary Lifetime Membership (HLM) are now being requested for consideration at the Vancouver, 2010 meeting.
Past recipients of Honorary Lifetime Member awards are (in alphabetical order), Louis Chedid, Peter Elsbach, Sheldon Greisman, Arthur Johnson, Jack Levin, Otto Luderitz, William McCabe, Herbert Morgan, W.T.J. Morgan, David Morrison, Masagasu Nakano, Malcolm Perry, Mary Jane Osborn, Ernst Th. Rietschel, Jon A Rudbach, Johanna Schlosshardt, Tetsuo Shiba, Anna-Marie Staub, Lewis Thomas, Dennis Watson and Otto Westphal. Nominations for this award should
include a description of the nominee’s contributions and achievements in the areas of endotoxin and/or innate immunity research, and must be received on or before August 1, 2010.
In addition to honoring scientists for lifetime contributions to endotoxin and/or innate immunity research, the IEIIS also offers two awards which recognize the achievements of promising young scientists at the start of their careers. All nominees must be members of the Society at the time of their nomination.
Young Investigator Awards are given to pre- or post-doctoral students who are less than 35 years old and who are presenting a poster at the IEIIS. Nominations for this award must be made by the nominee’s research advisor.
The Nowotny Award is given to a “young investigator who has shown excellence in research, made a significant contribution to the study of endotoxins, shows potential for further scientific development, and whose research is close to that pursued by Dr. Alois Nowotny.”
Nominations should be submitted to Nancy Pollman at
IEIIS@aol.org
. Nominations for both the Young Investigator and Nowotny Awards must be received on or before August 1, 2010.
The awards will be presented at a plenary session during which the research contributions of each awardee will be highlighted in a short talk. In addition, the Young Investigators will also present their work at the plenary session (in conjunction with young investigators from the Society for Leukocyte Biology).