Awards

2023

  • Congratulations to our Postdoc Mario Alles for an impressive presentation on “Novel Adjuvants Targeting NK Cells in HIV Vaccines” at the 7th Annual Translational HIV Vaccine Conference in California and for winning the Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) award.

 

 

 

  • Our Graduate Student, Manuja Gunasena, won the NHLBI Scholarship to present his  COVID-19 work at the Keystone Symposium on Long COVID and Post Acute Sequalae of SARS CoV 2 (PASC) in Santa Fe. New Mexico.   Congratulations, Manuja !!!

 

  • Our Graduate Student, Manuja Gunasena, won the Infectious Diseases Institute  Trainee Enrichment Award.  Congratulations, Manuja !!!

2022

  • 5.22. 2022  Sarah Bord won the Medical Student Research Scholarship (MDSR scholarship). Congratulations Sarah !!!!!!

 

  • 5.20.22 Liyanage lab – Laboratory Safety Dean’s List 2022

  • 5.05.22 Our Graduate Student, Manuja Gunasena, won the AAI trainee abstract award – “Immune determinants of cardiometabolic risk in pre-existing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) severe COVID-19 patients.” Congratulations, Manuja !!!

  • 5.10.20 Our Graduate Student,

    Manuja Gunasena won the MI & I trainee travel award – “Immune determinants of cardiometabolic risk in pre-existing type 2 diabetes (T2DM) severe Covid-19 patients.” Congratulations, Manuja !!!

 

  • 3.21.2022  The Liyanage Lab received a NIAID U01 award with Dr. Nicholas Funderburg and Dr.  Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo to study The role of Trained Immunity and Mitochondrial dysfunction on INnate immunity in children and adolescents aGing with PHIV (TIMING-PHIV).

 

 

  • 1.1. 2022 Manuja Gunasena won IDI Trainee Transformative Research Grant – “Investigate the mechanism of BCG induced adaptive/memory NK cell responses”.  Congratulations  Manuja !!!

 

  • 1.1.2022  Liyanage Lab received MI&I Pilot Funding  to Investigate the link between dysregulated immune responses and cardiovascular risk in COVID-19 survivors

 

2021

  • 07.01.2021 Liyanage Lab received IDI Host Defense and Microbial Biology Pilot Grant  to Study the Role of NK cells in HIV vaccines

  • 3.26. 2020  Dr. Liyanage received the 2021 AAI Early Career Faculty Grant.

 

  • 3.20. 2020  Manuja Gunasena received the Immunology Conference award by Stem Cells

 

  • 1.26.2021: Our group won the best virtual poster presentation award for the poster titled ” Potential cardiometabolic risk in severe COVID-19 patients ”  @ The Ohio State University, Center for Clinical and Translational Science -Annual Scientific Meeting. Good Job all !!!!

 

  • 1.05.2021 Tatum Skladany received the Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP) award. Congratulations   Tatum  !!!!!!

 

2020

  • 5.01. 2020 Jeongwon Choi won the Medical student research scholarship (MDSR scholarship). Congratulations  Joe  !!!!!!

  • 3.01. 2020  Dr. Liyanage received the 2020 AAI Early Career Faculty Grant.

2019

  • 01.08.2019: Rajni Kant Shukla won the Midwest Virology Symposium Travel Award  Congratulations  Rajni !!!

  • 4.01. 2019 Nancy Tian won the  Medical student research scholarship (MDSR scholarship). Congratulations  Nancy !!!!!!

2018

  • 11.19.2018: Nicole won the best poster award for Immunology at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference. Congratulations Nicole !!!!!!