The Department of Integrative Immunobiology recognized four emerging researchers with the D. Bernard Amos Research Award during the D. Bernard Amos Research Lecture on May 18.
The award recognizes outstanding poster presentations and honors graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have made exceptional progress over the past academic year. Following faculty review, two predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees are selected to receive $400 first-place and $300 second-place awards.
First place honors
Graduate student Gillian Horn for her poster, “Epstein-Barr Virus Reprograms B cells via EBNA2 to induce T-bet+CXCR3+ B cells linked to Multiple Sclerosis."
Postdoctoral scholar Morgan Parker, PhD, for “Identifying causal risk variants driving Th17 cell-mediated pathogenesis of IBD.”
Second place honors
Postdoctoral associate Clara Bourgon, PhD, won for her poster, “Role of IL-1b in preventing the progression of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.”
Graduate student Jordan Flemming for “Guiding antibody evolution to elicit neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 with vaccination.”
D. Bernard Amos, MD, served as the James B. Duke Professor of Immunology and head of the Division of Immunology at Duke from 1962 to 1992. An internationally recognized immunogeneticist, Amos helped identify the human histocompatibility system—an advance that paved the way for modern organ transplantation. An endowment established in his name supports the award.