Meet the 2026 Awardees: Andrew R. Moore, MD & Meghan D. Althoff, MD, PhD
Andrew Moore, MD is an instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. A Virginia native, Dr. Moore attended the College of William and Mary before earning his Medical Degree at the University of Virginia. He subsequently completed his internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Stanford University before staying on as faculty. There, he is mentored by Drs. Angela Rogers and Purvesh Khatri. Dr. Moore’s research focuses on advancing precision medicine in the intensive care unit, where he leverages high-dimensional data to redefine clinical syndromes based on the underlying immune biology.
Beyond his primary research, Dr. Moore is a dedicated advocate for the next generation of physician-scientists. He serves as the Research Associate Program Director (APD) for the Stanford Critical Care Medicine fellowship and actively mentors emerging clinician-researchers. Beyond his roles at Stanford, Dr. Moore contributes as an Editor’s Apprentice for the red Journal. And outside of work, you can generally find him out running or biking around his local trails.y.
Meghan Althoff, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado. She is a physician-scientist with clinical and research interests in asthma. Dr. Althoff earned her MD and PhD in Epidemiology from Tulane University and completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship through the Physician Scientist Training Program at the University of Colorado. Dr. Althoff is a clinical and translational researcher whose work seeks to uncover drivers of treatment response to inhaled corticosteroids, with a particular focus on obesity-related asthma through metabolomic and multi-omic approaches. Her research is supported by the Parker B. Francis Fellowship and an NIH Career Development Award. Within the ATS, she serves on the AII Program Committee and the SGG Executive Committee.
Description
This award recognizes a junior faculty member whose trajectory demonstrates outstanding promise for future achievement in a scientific area of interest to the AII Assembly. The awardee will receive a framed certificate and will present their work at the Science and Innovation Center during the ATS International Conference. Their work will also 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 ≤ 5 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 will be submitted by AII Primary or Secondary Assembly members.
- Please submit a completed nomination form summarizing the nominee’s research and other academic accomplishments, and state why you believe they demonstrate outstanding promise for future scientific 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.