GLIIFCA Awards!

As part of the GLIIFCA Mission, the Steering committee has established the following awards to be given out at the end of the meeting each year.

Carleton and Sigrid Stewart Plenary Lecture

Alexander Nakeff Young Investigators Award

Chao-Huei Jeffrey Wang Memorial Achievement Award

In 1996, GLIIFCA started having a Keynote lecture on friday evenings. In 2003, with the retirement of Carl and Sigrid , this address was renamed the Carleton and Sigrid Stewart Plenary Lecture, and moved to Saturday Afternoon, to showcase the talk.

Year	Speaker	Topic
2003	Paul K Wallace	Cytometric Measures of Immune Function: Applications in Cancer Immunotherapy
2004	Robert G Hawley	Rainbow Reporters for Multispectral Marking and Genetic Modification of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
2005	Mario Roederer	Polychromatic Flow Cytometry: Shedding New Light on the Immune System
2006	Alan Waggoner	Fluorescent Probes and Imaging Live Cells
2007	Frank Mandy	Immunophenotying Leukocytes and the Stewarts' Barbeque Theory
2008	Bruce Bagwell	The Case of a Thousand Necklaces
2009
2010
2011

The 'Alexander Nakeff Young Investigators Award' is to be awarded at each year's GLIIFCA meeting to the technician, undergraduate, graduate or post doctoral student who gives the best presentation at the annual meeting. Both oral and poster presentations will be judged. Presentations will be judged on scientific content, contribution to the flow and image cytometry community, and overall style. The winner will be chosen by a panel consisting three individuals, the Program Chair, Education Chair and Alexander Nakeff. The recipient will be awarded a cash prize, the amount of which will be determined by the GLIIFCA steering committee in addition to any eligible travel awards, and a plaque with his/her name inscribed on it will be sent to the recipient.

Alexander Nakeff Young Investigators Award

Year	Winner	Title of Presentation
2008	Evan S. Jacobs, New Jersey Medical School Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Department of Pathology,	“Study of the Interaction between Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and Virus-infected Cells"
2009	Thomas Mace, Roswell Park Cancer Institute	"Using Imagestream Flow Cytometry to Characterize the Effects of Mild Systemic Hyperthermia on Antigen-Specific T Lymphocyte Function and Plasma Membrane Organization"
2010

The Annual Chao-Huei Jeffrey Wang Memorial Achievement Award was created in 2009 in recognition of the lifetime achievements and contributions to the flow cytometry community by Dr. Chao-Huei Jeffrey Wang. The scholarship will be awarded to an individual beginning their scientific career and studying or working in the US. This award is established as a Training Award to be used to offset costs of the winner to:

Attend an academic course
Attend a national/international flow or imaging course or conference
Travel to a lab to learn a new skill
Similar such activities that further the awardees' training

This award is designed for individuals early in their career (technicians, graduate student, post-doctoral fellow are all eligible) and may submit an application to the GLIIFCA Secretary. This application should contain:

A letter describing the need and the training opportunity desired and the impact the training will have on the individuals career
CV
Letter of support from the individual's Principle Investigator
If appropriate, a letter of support from the PI of the lab the individual wishes to travel to

Deadline for receipt of these materials is 1 month prior to the GLIIFCA meeting.

For 2009, this is 4 September, 2009.

Completed applications will be reviewed by a committee and the applications from the top applicant(s) will be submitted to the full GLIIFCA Steering Committee for a vote. The Decision criteria will include:
           i) Individual working hard to overcome challenges
           ii) Need/potential impact of said opportunity on career
           iii) prior achievements of the individual

Jeff Wang

Dr. Wang immigrated from Taiwan to the United States in 1968 to pursue a Master ‘s degree. He later received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and subsequently did a post doctorate at Amherst College with Dr. Alan Waggoner. During this time, he developed fluorescent dyes intended for optical probes of membrane potential. In 1992, Dr. Wang founded Spherotech (a biomedical manufacturer of microparticles.)

Spherotech’s products are used around the world in flow cytometry, biomedical research and diagnostic testing. Dr. Wang did not want his life measured by his personal accomplishments and patents, instead he felt the resume of his life was the success of his family employees and friends. In recognition of these wishes and to continue this mission the Chao-Huei Jeffrey Wang Memorial Achievement Award was created by his family.

Chao-Huei Jeffrey Wang Memorial Achievement Award

Year	Recipient
2009	Andrew Bantly, University of Pennsylvania
2010
2011

Last modified:12 October 2009

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