Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research

ASTMH accepts applications from physicians and scientists for this international career opportunity focused on benefiting underserved populations in locations in the world where the burden of disease is high. The recipient will receive $25,000 in support for a six-month research experience in the tropics.

2024
	Laura Willen, NIH  "Aedes Saliva Induced Trained Immunity and its Implications     for Arboviral Immunopathology"
	Overseas location Cambodia
2023
	Morgan Goheen, Yale School of Medicine "Exploring the Mosquito Vector Role in Transmission of Drug Resistant Falciparum Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa"
	Overseas location Burkina Faso
2022
	Kelsey Adams, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Evaluating Plasmodium-Blocking Acitvity of Mosquito-Targeted Antimalarials in Natural Settings"
	Overseas location Malawi
2021
	Adelaide Miarinjara, Emory University "Determination of the Vectorial Capacity of the Human Flea, Pulex irritans to Transmit Yersinia pestis, the Plague Bacterium"
	Overseas location Madagascar
2020
	Kathleen Dantzler, Stanford University "Investigating Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Factors Contributing to Monocyte and γδ T Cell Memory in Antimalarial Immunity"
	Overseas location Uganda
2019
	Camila Coelho, NIAID, NIH "Validating efficacy of Pfs25 and Pfs230 mAbs in malaria endemic areas in Mali"
	Overseas location Mali
2018
	Katherine Siddle, Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University "Enhancing diagnosis of undiagnosed acute febrile illnesses in Senegal using markers of the host immune response"
	Overseas location Senegal
2017
	Melissa Conrad, University of California, San Francisco "The impact of antimalarial resistance on malaria transmission in Uganda"
	Overseas location Uganda
	Usheer Kanjee, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health "Validation of transferrin receptor as an essential host receptor for Plasmodium vivax invasion"
	Overseas location India
2016
	Heather Glasgow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Characterization of Emerging Drug Resistance to New Drugs for Tuberculosis Using a Novel Reporter"
	Overseas location South Africa
2015
	Brie Falkard, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States "Characterization of Memory B cell responses to Oral Cholera Vaccination"
	Overseas location Haiti
2014
	Anna Babakhanyan, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States "Influence of HIV on the Longevity of Antibodies Protective against Plasmodium falciparum Placental Malaria"
	Overseas location  Kenya
2013
Photo not available	Sarah Blythe-Ballard, Johns Hopkins University, United States "Genetic characterization of norovirus in children younger than five years with and without diarrhea, and relationship with clinical severity in a Peruvian hospital"
	Overseas location Peru
2012
	Amy Bei, Harvard School of Public Health, United States "Diversity driven immune evasion: A new paradigm for malaria vaccine development"
	Overseas location Senegal

2011
Anne Frosch, University of Minnesota, United States

2010
Amma Semenya, CDC, United States

2009
Robert Comer, Wake Forest University, United States

2008
Jessica Lin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

2007
Judith Denery, Scripps Research Institute, United States
Rhoel Dinglasan, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, United States
Sanjay Mehta, University of California, San Diego, United States
Amber Read, University of New Mexico, United States

2006
Erika Lamb, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, United States
Stephen Popper, Stanford University, United States
Scott Westenberger, Scripps Research Institute, United States

2005
Annette Kraus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

2004
Gnanesekar Munirathinam, University of Illinois College of Medicine, United States
Kristine Peterson, University of Virginia, United States
Lisa Steele, CDC, United States

2003
Katie Kurkjian, CDC, United States

2002
Myaing Nyunt, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States