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International Immunology Outstanding Merit Award

The Outstanding Merit Award is an annual prize which recognizes the best paper published in International Immunology. The Editorial Board vote to select the winning paper and the award is made by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors.


2011 Outstanding Merit Award

Shizue Tani-ichi, Masanobu Satake and Koichi Ikuta

The pre-TCR signal induces transcriptional silencing of the TCRγ locus by reducing the recruitment of STAT5 and Runx to transcriptional enhancers


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2010 Outstanding Merit Award

Murali Gururajan, Christopher L. Haga, Sabyasachi Das, Chuen-Miin Leu, Daniel Hodson, Sajni Josson, Martin Turner, and Max D. Cooper

MicroRNA 125b inhibition of B cell differentiation in germinal centers


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2009 Outstanding Merit Award

Mostafa M. Sira, Taketoshi Yoshida, Makoto Takeuchi, Yoshinori Kashiwayama, Takeshi Futatani, Hirokazu Kanegane, Akiko Sasahara, Yasunori Ito, Mineyuki Mizuguchi, Tsuneo Imanaka, and Toshio Miyawaki

MicroRNA 125b inhibition of B cell differentiation in germinal centers


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2008 Outstanding Merit Award

Connie Jackaman, Andrew M. Lew, Yifan Zhan, Jane E. Allan, Biljana Koloska, Peter T. Graham, Bruce W. S. Robinson, and Delia J. Nelson

Deliberately provoking local inflammation drives tumors to become their own protective vaccine site


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2007 Outstanding Merit Award

Kia-Joo Puan, Chenggang Jin, Hong Wang, Ghanashyam Sarikonda, Amy M. Raker, Hoi K. Lee, Megan I. Samuelson, Elisabeth Märker-Hermann, Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic, Edward Nieves, José-Luis Giner, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, and Craig T. Morita

Preferential recognition of a microbial metabolite by human Vv2Vd2 T cells


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2006 Outstanding Merit Award

Ekaterina Marinova, Shuhua Han and Biao Zheng

Human germinal center T cells are unique Th cells with high propensity for apoptosis induction


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2005 Outstanding Merit Award

Koji Nagaoka, Kazuhiko Takahara, Kay Tanaka, Hideo Yoshida, Ralph M. Steinman, Shin-ichiro Saitoh, Sachiko Akashi-Takamura, Kensuke Miyake, Young Sun Kang, Chae Gyu Park, and Kayo Inaba

Association of SIGNR1 with TLR4–MD-2 enhances signal transduction by recognition of LPS in gram-negative bacteria