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 junior faculty (see below) with exemplary achievements in a scientific area of the AII Assembly who demonstrates clear promise for a future of sustained productivity. There is a single award given out per year in which the awardee will receive a framed certificate and make a 5-minute presentation of their work 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 level or Assistant Professor level (or equivalent) at the time of nomination.
- Limited to nominees that are ≤ 12 years from terminal doctoral degree (PhDs) or completion of medical fellowship training (MDs or MD/PhDs). Individual waivers of time rule will require a written statement as to the reason for waiver and will be considered on a case by case basis.
- Previous awardees are not eligible for the same award.
Nominations
- Nominations will come from AII Primary or Secondary Assembly members.
- Submit a completed nomination form summarizing what the nominee has contributed to impact their field thus far and why you believe they demonstrate clear promise for ongoing productivity/achievement.
- Upload the nominee’s NIH Biosketch or equivalent research or achievement CV which is limited to 5 pages. Please make sure that this reflects all of the activities noted on the nomination form.