Meet the 2026 Awardee: Anukul T. Shenoy, PhD, MS
Anukul Shenoy, PhD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor. Before starting his lab, Dr. Shenoy completed his BS and MS in Biotechnology from Ruia College (University of Mumbai, India), received his PhD in Microbiology under mentorship of Dr. Carlos Orihuela at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and did his postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Joseph Mizgerd at the Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine. Throughout his postdoctoral fellowship and now as a PI, his research has focused on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying lung epithelial and CD4+ T cell communication and its impacts on pulmonary immunity during health, infections, and allergy. This work has been published in top tier journals like Nature Communications, Cell Reports, Mucosal Immunology and has shed light into how lung epithelial cells can act as key coordinators and effectors of T cell responses in the lungs. He has been a member of the ATS since 2018, and a member of the Allergy, Immunology, and Inflammation (AII) Assembly since 2019. Beyond research, Dr. Shenoy has been an active member of the ATS where he served as a member on the AII Early Career Working Group (2021-2025), the AII Assembly Programming committee (2023-2025), the PI-TB Assembly Executive Committee (2023- 2025), the Student Scholars Program (2024 – present), co-organized the AII journal club webinars (2021-2025), and served as the PI-TB co-chair of the Science and Innovation Center for the ATS Meeting in 2023, in addition to facilitating and moderating sessions at the ATS Annual Meetings.
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.