On the recommendation of its Gender & Diversity Task Force, EFIS is delighted to announce Dr. Sarina Ravens, Hannover Medical School, as the recipient of the 2024 EJI Ita Askonas Prize awarded by EFIS. Nominated by the German Society for Immunology, the award goes to Dr. Ravens in recognition of her research focused on understanding the development, maturation and functionality of γδ T cells in the neonatal and infant immune system, as well as in adults, especially patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Dr. Raven's award will be formally conferred during the EFIS Awards Ceremony at ECI 2024 this coming September in Dublin.

         

The Fondation ACTERIA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 ACTERIA Prizes awarded by EFIS:

• The Doctoral Thesis prize in Immunology is awarded to Olli DUFVA (PhD 2022), Scandinavian Society for Immunology, for her post-doctoral work on the role of T lymphocytes in brain development and their therapeutic potential in neuroinflammation. Download Olli's biosketch here.

• The Doctoral Thesis prize in Allergology is awarded to Marie TAUBER (PhD 2021), French Society for Immunology, for her post-doctoral work on the interactions between mast cells and blood vessels during inflammation. Download Marie's biosketch here.

The call for applications for the 2025 ACTERIA Early Career Research Prizes in Immunology and Allergology will open in October 2024.

More information on the ACTERIA Prizes is available here.

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EFIS is pleased to offer up to five travel grants of EUR 1000 each to EU-based early career researchers* and members of EFIS-affiliated societies wishing to attend the 14th Congress of the Latin American and Caribbean Immunology - ALACI 2024 - to be held 4-8 November 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

*MSc and PhD students or postdocs with no more than 7 years postdoctoral experience (excluding career interruptions)

Applicants must submit via email to office@efis.org:

1) Proof of membership in an EFIS-affiliated society,
2) Proof of registration to ALACI 2024,
3) The abstract(s) submitted to ALACI 2024.

Grantees will be informed of their awards by 15 September 2024.

Address any questions to: office@efis.org

Deadline: 18 August 2024

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