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Distinguished Fellows of AAI—Class of 2026

This program annually recognizes members for distinguished careers and outstanding scientific contributions as well as their service to AAI and the immunology community. Click here for more information on this award.

Nicole Baumgarth, D.V.M., Ph.D. (AAI ’00)
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health 

Etty (Tika) Benveniste, Ph.D. (AAI ’90)
University of Alabama at Birmingham 

Jay A. Berzofsky, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’77) 
NCI, NIH

Michael Croft, Ph.D. (AAI ’92)
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Lisa K. Denzin, Ph.D. (AAI ’95)
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Zsuzsanna Fabry, Ph.D. (AAI ’91) 
University of Wisconsin

Fred D. Finkelman, M.D. (AAI ’76)
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Sarah L. Gaffen, Ph.D. (AAI ’00)
University of Pittsburgh

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI ’00)^*
Yale School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Garnett H. Kelsoe, III, D.Sc. (AAI ’85)
Duke University

Elizabeth J. Kovacs, Ph.D. (AAI ’89)
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Ellen Kraig, Ph.D. (AAI ’84)
UT Health, San Antonio

Michael J. Lenardo, M.D. (AAI ’93)
Calico Life Sciences

Gabriel Nunez, M.D. (AAI ’85)
University of Michigan Medical School

David W. Pascual, Ph.D. (AAI ’91)
University of Wyoming

Bali Pulendran, Ph.D. (AAI ’00)
Stanford University School of Medicine

David G. Schatz, Ph.D. (AAI ’97)
Yale School of Medicine

Alan Sher, Ph.D. (AAI ’77)
NIAID, NIH

Giorgio Trinchieri, M.D. (AAI ’76)
NCI, NIH

Dario A.A. Vignali, Ph.D. (AAI ’98)
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

E. John Wherry, Ph.D. (AAI ’01)
University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan W. Yewdell, M.D., Ph.D. (AAI ’01)
NIAID, NIH