AAI Bright Spark Awards

26 awards, 300 EUR each: AAI kindly sponsors awards for young investigators and clinicians at the Joint Annual Meeting of the DGfI and ÖGAI. Winners will be selected from the best oral presentations in the 20 workshops and all of the YI Session.

Jochen Kalden Junior Prizes

2x 500 EUR: The two best talks from the Young Immunologists Session will be selected for the “Jochen Kalden Junior Prize”, named after the former DGfI president. The selection is made by the DGfI-YI board and the sponsor is the Fritz and Ursula Melchers Foundation.

Poster Prizes

The best  poster presentation of each of the five poster Sessions will be awarded with the Poster Prize sponsored by Merck.  

EFIS-IL Lecture Awards

With the prestigious EFIS-IL Lecture Awards, EFIS support its Member Societies to invite outstanding European immunologists to speak at their annual meeting. We are very proud to announce that two speakers will receive the EFIS-IL Lecture Awards from EFIS Treasurer Winfried Pickl: Emma Slack (Zurich, Switzerland, on behalf of DGfI) and Oscar Palomares  (Madrid, Spain, on behalf of ÖGAI). Both will speak in Plenary Session 2: Microbiome and Metabolism on Friday, Sept 9, 13:30 – 15:00.

The AAI Bright Sparks Awards, the Jochen Kalden Junior Prizes and the Poster Prizes will be presented on Saturday, September 10, 2022 during the closing ceremony. All awardees will be informed in time and are kindly asked to attend the award ceremony. Please check your e-mail account.