Thank you to the FOCIS Centers of Excellence (FCEs) who nominated trainees to receive FCE Travel Awards to attend the 2024 Advanced Course in Basic and Clinical Immunology, February 4–7, 2024, in La Jolla, CA.
The FCE Travel Award is intended to help trainees defray some of the cost of attending the course.
The value of the travel award is dependent on the FCE location and is provided as a reimbursement of registration and/or travel expenses.
- Trainees from U.S. or Canadian-based FCEs receive $500.
- Trainees from FCEs based outside of the U.S. and Canada receive $1,000.
Below is a list of the 23 recipients. FOCIS is pleased to extend this travel award opportunity to the FCE community.
| FCE Name | Recipient |
| BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute/The University of British Columbia (Canada) | Lindsay Pallo |
| Benaroya Research (United States) | Thomas Edwards |
| Center of Human Immunology at Lausanne (CHUV-UNIL) (Switzerland) | Cloe Brenna |
| Centro de InmunologÃa ClÃnica de Córdoba (CICC) – National University of Cordoba, CIBICI-CONICET (Argentina) | Yair Aron Chocobar Torres |
| Centro de InmunologÃa ClÃnica de Córdoba (CICC). National University of Cordoba, CIBICI-CONICET (Argentina) | MarÃa Sol Martinez |
| Clinical Investigation center in biotherapy (France) | Romane Bariseel |
| Columbia University (United States) | Artemis Margaronis |
| Duke University Medical School (United States) | Lisette Dominguez |
| Institut Curie (Paris) (France) | Hugo Roux |
| Institute of Immunology, Charles University and University Hospital in Motol (Czech Republic) | Magdalena Havlisova |
| Institute of Immunology, Charles University and University Hospital in Motol (Czech Republic) | Ondrej Vladyka |
| Karolinska Institut (Sweden) | Caroline Stenlander |
| King’s College London (United Kingdom) | Sumoyee Basu |
| Northwestern University (United States) | Rogan Grant |
| Northwestern University (United States) | Jonathan Kemal Gurkan |
| Toronto Human Immunology Network (Canada) | Erick Figueiredo Saldanha |
| UAB Barcelona FCE (Spain) | Ingrid Johana Gil Serrano |
| UCL Institute of Immunity and Transplantation (United Kingdom) | Kate Orf |
| UiO FOCIS CoE (Norway) | Mirjam Dürkoop |
| UiO FOCIS CoE (Norway) | Aleksei Titov |
| Vanderbilt University (United States) | Sydney Jamison |
| Vanderbilt University (United States) | Sepiso Masenga |
| Yale University – Human and Translational Immunology Program (United States) | Aaron Bower |
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