American Association of Immunologists
| Founded | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland |
Members | 7,700 |
| Website | http://aai.org |
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is a scientific society dedicated to the support of research in immunology. Founded in 1913, the AAI has published a journal, the Journal of Immunology, since 1915. It also holds annual scientific meetings and intensive summer courses in immunology. As of 2016, the AAI had approximately 7700 members. The president for the 2016-17 term is Harvard University professor Arlene Sharp.[1][2]
History
The AAI was founded on June 19, 1913, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by a group of physicians who were attending the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.[2] The original 41 members of the society were all disciples of Almroth Wright, the founder and director of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London.[3] The first AAI annual meeting was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on June 22, 1914.[4] AAI is a founding member society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).
Activities
The AAI hosts an annual scientific meeting for its membership, recently typically in May, and organizes intensive summer courses in immunology. The association also publishes a major journal in the field, The Journal of Immunology, and the AAI Newsletter.[5][6]
List of past presidents
- Gerald B. Webb (1913–1915)
- James W. Jobling (1915–1916)
- Richard Weil (1916–1917)
- John A. Kolmer (1917–1918)
- William Hallock Park (1918–1919)
- Hans Zinsser (1919–1920)
- Rufus Cole (1920–1921)
- Frederick P. Gay (1921–1922)
- George W. McCoy (1922–1923)
- H. Gideon Wells (1923–1924)
- Frederick George Novy (1924–1925)
- Wilfred H. Manwaring (1925–1926)
- Ludvig Hektoen (1926–1927)
- Karl Landsteiner (1927–1928)
- Eugene Lindsay Opie (1928–1929)
- Oswald Avery (1929–1930)
- Stanhope Bayne-Jones (1930–1931)
- Alphonse Dochez (1931–1932)
- Augustus B. Wadsworth (1932–1933)
- Thomas Milton Rivers (1933–1934)
- Francis G. Blake (1934–1935)
- Warfield T. Longcope (1935–1936)
- Sanford B. Hooker (1936–1937)
- Carl TenBroeck (1937–1938)
- Donald T. Fraser (1938–1939)
- George P. Berry (1939–1940)
- Karl Friedrich Meyer (1940–1941)
- Paul R. Cannon (1941–1942)
- Jacques J. Bronfenbrenner (1942–1946)
- Michael Heidelberger (1946–1947)
- Lloyd D. Felton (1947–1948)
- Michael Heidelberger (1948–1949)
- Thomas Francis, Jr. (1949–1950)
- Geoffrey Edsall (1950–1951)
- Colin Munro MacLeod (1951–1952)
- John Franklin Enders (1952–1953)
- Thomas P. Magill (1953–1954)
- Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr. (1954–1955)
- Jules T. Freund (1955–1956)
- Merrill Chase (1956–1957)
- John H. Dingle (1957–1958)
- Joseph Edward Smadel (1958–1959)
- William C. Boyd (1959–1960)
- Albert H. Coons (1960–1961)
- Rebecca Lancefield (1961–1962)
- Werner Henle (1962–1963)
- Francis S. Cheever (1963–1964)
- Harry Eagle (1964–1965)
- Elvin A. Kabat (1965–1966)
- Edwin H. Lennette (1966–1967)
- Frank Horsfall (1967–1968)
- Herman N. Eisen (1968–1969)
- Karl Habel (1969–1970)
- Byron H. Waksman (1970–1971)
- Frank J. Dixon (1971–1972)
- Dan H. Campbell (1972–1973)
- Baruj Benacerraf (1973–1974)
- Henry G. Kunkel (1974–1975)
- Robert A. Good (1975–1976)
- Manfred M. Mayer (1976–1977)
- K. Frank Austen (1977–1978)
- David Talmage (1978–1979)
- Irwin H. Lepow (1979–1980)
- D. Bernard Amos (1980–1981)
- Hugh McDevitt (1981–1982)
- Marian Koshland (1982–1983)
- Jonathan W. Uhr (1983–1984)
- Kimishige Ishizaka (1984–1985)
- Barry R. Bloom (1985–1986)
- William E. Paul (1986–1987)
- Donald C. Shreffler (1987–1988)
- Max D. Cooper (1988–1989)
- G. Jeanette Thorbecke (1989–1990)
- Alfred Nisonoff (1990–1991)
- Henry Metzger (1991–1992)
- Frank W. Fitch (1992–1993)
- Ellen Vitetta (1993–1994)
- Irving Weissman (1994–1995)
- Richard W. Dutton (1995–1996)
- Katherine L. Knight (1996–1997)
- Charles Janeway (1997–1998)
- Jonathan Sprent (1998–1999)
- Roger Perlmutter (1999–2000)
- Philippa Marrack (2000–2001)
- James P. Allison (2001–2002)
- Paul W. Kincade (2002–2003)
- Laurie H. Glimcher (2003–2004)
- Susan L. Swain (2004–2005)
- Paul M. Allen (2005–2006)
- Lewis L. Lanier (2006–2007)
- Olivera J. Finn (2007–2008)
- Arthur Weiss (2008–2009)
- Betty Diamond (2009–2010)
- Jeffrey A. Frelinger (2010–2011)
- Leslie J. Berg (2011–2012)
- Gail A. Bishop (2012–2013)
- Mark K. Jenkins (2013–2014)
- Linda A. Sherman (2014–2015)
- Dan R. Littman (2015–2016)
References
- ↑ "AAI Membership". American Association of Immunologists. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- 1 2 "AAI History". American Association of Immunologists. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ↑ “The Founding of AAI.” AAI Newsletter, May–June 2012, 24–29.; British Medical Journal 2, no. 2761 (1913): 1434 ; “Medical News,” JAMA 61, no. 23 (1913): 2079.
- ↑ “American Association of Immunologists,” Society Reports, Medical Record 86 (1914): 942–946; “Medical News,” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 170, no. 26 (1914): 1002 ; “Medical News,” JAMA 62, no. 25 (1914): 1975.
- ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: IMMUNOLOGY". 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013.
- ↑ “AAI Publications.” . The American Association of Immunologists.