Michelson Philanthropies SciTalks: Progress in Vaccine Development for Infectious Diseases

Michelson Philanthropies celebrated this year's winners of its Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants and Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize for Immunology during a Keystone Symposia meeting: Progress in Vaccine Development for Infectious Diseases conference. These awards honor young investigators who break the status quo by applying disruptive concepts and innovative processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery, and immunotherapy research.

Recipients of the 2021 Michelson Philanthropies and Science Prize:

• Grand Prize Winner, Paul Bastard, MD, Ph.D., (Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Institut Imagine, INSERM & University of Paris and The Rockefeller University, New York)

• Finalist, Scott B. Biering, Ph.D., (Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley)

• Finalist, Lisa Wagar, Ph.D., (Institute for Immunology, University of California, Irvine)

Recipients of the 2021 Michelson Prizes Next Generation Grants:

• Dr. Camila Consiglio, Postdoctoral Researcher, Karolinska Institutet

• Dr. Rong Ma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University

• Dr. Nicholas Wu, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois