Career Development

2007 Awards

Junior Faculty

Dawn Jelley-Gibbs (Trudeau Institute)
Regulatory T cells restrict the priming of CD4 T cell immunity to influenza

Michael Robek (Yale University School of Medicine)
Inhibition of virus replication by lambda interferon

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Shabaana Abdul Khadar (Trudeau Institute)
Promoting immune responses capable of protecting against aerosol infection

Robin Moudy (Wadsworth Center, NYDOH)
In vivo phenotypic effects of natural sequence variation in West Nile virus

2006 Award

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Fengwei Bai (Yale University)
Lentivirus mediated delivery of West Nile virus siRNA therapeutics

2005 Awards

Junior Faculty

Jürgen Brojatsch (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Role of tissue-specific cell killing in anthrax toxin-mediated cell killing

Isbelle Marié (New York University)
Screening IFN antagonists for novel smallpox antivirals

Postdoctoral Fellowship


Patricia Aguilar (Mt. Sinai College of Medicine)
Genetic determinants of IFN antagonism by Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus

Hana Fukuto (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Global gene expression profiling of Yersinia pestis replicating in a macrophage

Giresh Kirimanjeswara (Albany Medical College)
Humoral immunity to Francisella tularensis

2004 Awards

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Washington Cárdenas (Mt. Sinai College of Medicine)
The Ebola Zaire VP35 protein as a viral pathogenesis determinant

Yoonkyung Do (Rockefeller University)
Improved T cell vaccination against Yersinia pestis by targeting antigen to dendritic cells

Maria Iglesias-Ussel (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Production of higher affinity neutralizing monoclonal antibodies of every isotype in vitro

Man-Seong Park (Mt. Sinai College of Medicine)
Vaccines against Nipah and Hanta viruses based on Newcastle Disease virus vectors

Neil Renwick (Columbia University)
Biodefense applications of highly multiplexed pathogen detection assays

2003 Awards

Junior Faculty

Andrew Campbell (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine)
Influenza vaccine in pediatric liver transplant recipients

Stephen Smiley (Trudeau Institute)
Priming CD4+ T cells to protect against pneumonic plague