The 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to Luigi D. Notarangelo, MD
Luigi D. Notarangelo is an NIH Distinguished Investigator and the Chief of the laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology at NIAID, NIH. After graduating in Medicine and completing residency in Pediatrics and fellowships in Allergy/Immunology and Human Genetics, he became Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Brescia (Italy) and then at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2016 he moved to the NIH. His research focuses on the characterization of the cellular and molecular bases of inborn errors of immunity and development of novel forms of treatment for these disorders. He has authored more than 500 publications, and has discovered several genes responsible for severe immunodeficiencies. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is a founding member of the Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium and has served as President of the European Society for Immune Deficiencies and the Clinical Immunology Society.