The ICIS-Regeneron New Investigator Awards recognize ICIS members who will attend the upcoming annual conference and who have received a Ph.D. within the previous 10 years or their MD degree (plus residency training) within the last 14 years. Up to four awards are granted to individuals who have made notable contributions to either basic or clinical research.
Join us in congratulating this year’s winners:
Mohammad Arifuzzaman, PhD, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York
Dr. Arifuzzaman is an Assistant Professor of Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Dhaka and his Ph.D. from Duke University. Dr. Arifuzzaman completed his postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medicine where he developed his current research program focused on understanding how environmental factors, including signals from diet and microbiota, regulate the immune system in health and disease.
Ang Cui, PhD, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, MA
Dr. Cui is a faculty member at Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School and directs a computational-experimental hybrid research laboratory in systems immunology. Her research focuses on understanding the complexity of cellular responses to cytokines and applying such precise insights to develop novel immunotherapeutic strategies for immune-mediated diseases and cancer.
Ruaidhri Jackson, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Jackson is an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. He earned his Ph.D. in Immunology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Moynagh, focusing on the molecular role of E3 ubiquitin ligases in Toll-like receptor 3 anti-viral signaling. Dr. Jackson then completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Richard Flavell’s laboratory at Yale University, where he investigated how non-canonical translation events, mechanosensation, and enteric neuroinflammation impact cytokine production and mucosal immunity.
Nandan Gokhale, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Gokhale is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Immunobiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and is interested in how RNA biology regulates and is regulated by innate immunity and viral infection. Nandan completed his PhD with Dr. Stacy Horner in 2019, with whom he studied how RNA modifications in viral and cellular RNA impact influence infection. He then trained with Dr. Ram Savan for his postdoc, making inroads into how cellular RNA molecules interact with the MAVS signalosome to influence antiviral signaling
Read the complete mini-bios, including current research interests, here.