Awards

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 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 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 !!!!!!