At the recommendation of the members of International scientific Advisory Board, the Board of Directors established Thomas A. Waldmann Memorial Award for Excellence in Human Immunology as a tribute to Dr. Thomas A. Waldman for his many seminal contributions of to human immunology, especially his contributions to immunoglobulin catabolism, immunoglobulin gene rearrangement, regulatory cells in common variable immunodeficiency, and discovery of IL-2 receptor alpha chain (CD25), and IL-15.
The Thomas A. Waldmann Memorial Award for Excellence in Human Immunology will be awarded to an immunologist/cell biologist who has made major contributions directly or indirectly to the understanding of primary immunodeficiency diseases.
Recipients of the Thomas A. Waldmann Memorial Award for Excellence in Human Immunology
- 2023 – John O’Shea
- 2022 – Gerald Orth
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019 – Jean Laurent Casanova
- 2018 – Michael Lenardo
- 2017 – Yanick Crow
- 2016 – Luigi Notarangelo
- 2015 – Daniel Kastner
- 2014 – Rochelle Hirschhorn
- 2013 – Rebecca Buckley
- 2012 – Mary Ellen Conley
- 2011 – Max D. Cooper