2021 Acknowledgements

Congratulations to Hillary Tunggal who graduated with a PhD in Microbiology on June 11 for her thesis on “Effects of therapeutic vaccination on the control of SIV in rhesus macaques on June 11.

Congrats to Megan O’Connor (Research Assistant Professor) who received an iCFAR award to support her project: “The Host Response to ZIKV Co-Infection During Immunodeficiency Virus Infection”.

Congrats to Jesse Erasmus (Acting Assistant Professor) who received an WaNPRC/ITHS pilot project award to support his project: “Overcoming bottlenecks in mRNA-mediated antibody expression in nonhuman primates”.

Congrats to Sandra Dross (Virology & Immunology Core, WaNPRC, Supervising Scientist): Named Co-Director of the CFAR NHP Immunology Sub-core.

Congrats to Hillary Tunggal (Postdoctoral fellow) for receiving a Conference Scholarship from the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.

Congrats and Best Wishes to Undergraduate Amirah Ullah who received a Department of Microbiology Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award, The Mary Gates Undergraduate Scholar Award for her Capstone thesis project: “The impact of PD-1 blockade on CD8+ T-cell exhaustion and therapeutic vaccination in SHIV-infected rhesus macaques receiving a novel combinatorial immunotherapeutic regimen”. Amirah was also recently accepted into the NIH Postbaccalaureate IRTA Program (Dr. Barbara Felber, NCI)