Meet the 2025 Winner: William Bain, MD
William Bain, MD is a bench translational physician-scientist currently supported by a Department of Veterans Affairs Career Development Award. He is a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician and serves as an attending physician in the Deployment-Related Respiratory Disease Clinic at VA Pittsburgh as well as the intensive care units at VA Pittsburgh and UPMC East. His research goal is to improve understanding of how the lung interacts with and employs cellular and humoral elements of innate immunity to manage injury caused by infections and toxic exposures. In pursuit of this goal, he has research expertise in molecular genetic discovery focused on host-pathogen interactions, cell culture models with a focus on mechanisms of cytotoxicity and barrier integrity, transcriptomic approaches including the re-analysis of publicly available data, and in vivo murine models focused on host defense and lung injury. William has extensive experience in translational research serving as an investigator in multiple human subject studies during respiratory failure.
Description
This award recognizes an early-career faculty member with exemplary achievements in a scientific area of interest to the AII Assembly who demonstrates clear promise for a future of sustained productivity. A single awardee is selected per year. The awardee will receive a framed certificate, and their work will be briefly highlighted at the Assembly Membership Meeting. There is no monetary award for this recognition.
Qualifications
- The awardee must be a Primary or Secondary AII member.
- The awardee must be an Instructor, Assistant Professor, or equivalent at the time of nomination.
- Nominees must be ≤ 12 years from their terminal doctoral degree (PhD) or completion of medical fellowship training (MD, MD/PhD). Individual waivers of the time rule will require a written statement as to the reason for the waiver and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Previous awardees are not eligible for the same award.
Nominations
- Nominations must be submitted by AII Primary or Secondary Assembly members.
- Please submit a completed nomination form summarizing the nominee’s impact in their area of expertise and why you believe they demonstrate clear promise for ongoing productivity/achievement.
- Upload the nominee’s NIH Biosketch or equivalent research CV (limit 5 pages). Ensure that the Biosketch or CV accurately reflects all the activities listed on the nomination form.