2025 Awardee: Yvonne J. Huang, MD, ATSF
Dr. Huang is internationally recognized for her translational research studying host-microbiome interactions and their role in chronic airway disease outcomes. Focusing on asthma and COPD, her research teams have uncovered novel links between the airway microbiome and disease phenotypes, including immune response patterns and treatment outcomes. Dr. Huang oversees an asthma translational research program at the University of Michigan involving interdisciplinary collaborations and both wet and dry bench work. She completed her internal medicine residency at Yale and pulmonary/critical care fellowship at UCSF. She has served on numerous working groups and panels including for the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Thoracic Society (ATSF) and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (FAAAAI).
Description
This award recognizes mid-career faculty who are emerging as national and/or international leaders in their respective fields and have made meaningful contributions in the fields of pulmonary, critical care, allergy, immunology and inflammation. Contributions are defined as a combination of:
- Research contribution(s) in the area(s) of research in the field of allergy, immunology, and inflammation.
- Educational, teaching, and mentoring contributions, and
- Participation in Assembly and ATS activities
There is a single award given out per year in which the awardee will receive a framed certificate and will be invited to give a short speech of their work at the Assembly Membership Meeting.
Qualifications
- The awardee must be a Primary or Secondary AII member.
- The awardee would be > 12 years from terminal doctoral degree (PhDs) or completion of medical fellowship training (MDs or MD/PhDs), in order to distinguish this from the Early Career Award eligibility criteria, and would either be at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.
- 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.