The Bernhard Cinader award lectureship is given to a Canadian scientist who exemplifies distinguished scientific leadership and accomplishments in Immunology.
| Recipient | Lecture title | |
| 2023 | Zhou Xing | Respiratory Mucosal Immunity: A Trek Through Research and Self-Discovery |
| 2022 | Brad Nelson | 30 Years in the Cancer Immunotherapy Field, and More Optimistic Than Ever |
| 2021 | Martin Olivier | A Life of Wasps and Caterpillars |
| 2019 | Jean Marshall | Building Bridges with Mast Cells |
| 2018 | Michael Grant | Edge to edge: Look straight ahead |
| 2017 | Claude Perreault | Know Thyself |
| 2016 | Tania Watts | From planar membranes to TNFRs, a tale of costimulation and collaboration |
| 2015 | Eleanor Fish | The Art Behind Going Viral |
| 2014 | Pamela Ohashi | From Y Y Z and Beyond |
| 2013 | Mike Gold | When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take it! |
| 2012 | Paul Kubes | Imaging the Immune System in Blood Vessels: Seeing a Whole New World |
| 2011 | Michelle Letarte | Experiments and Adventures with Endoglin and Immunology! |
| 2010 | Christopher Paige | Dancing with the Bees |
| 2009 | André Veillette | Signaling in the Immune System: T cells and Beyond |
| 2008 | Kent HayGlass | What is Normal? |
| 2007 | Rafik-Pierre Sékaly | Human Immunology: 15 years experience and an eternal challenge |
| 2006 | Chris Bleackley | Confessions of a Thanatologist |
| 2005 | Michael Julius | Une Histoire D'Amour |
| 2003 | Gillian Wu | G.O.D. is in the details: Life forces and the Generation of Diversity |
| 2002 | Linda Pilarski | Challenging the Status Quo: From Sombreros to Nanobiotechnology |
| 2001 | Bhagirath Singh | Life before signaling: peptides, microbes, and regulation of autoimmunity |
| 2000 | John Schrader | Science and Sunday afternoons: P-cells to proteomics |
| 1999 | Dean Befus | From worms to asthma: the road to little feG |
| 1998 | Jack Gauldie | From the Chicken to the Egg and with a Virus in Between |
| 1997 | Arnold Greenberg | The molecular basis of cell mediated cytotoxicity |
| 1996 | Peter Bretscher | Regulation of the immune response: the significance of quantitative and qualitative signals as physiological signs |
| 1995 | Dennis Osmond | A B-cell biography: the soil and the seed |
| 1994 | Tak Mak | And appear to be and appear not to be |
| 1993 | Tim Mosmann | T-cells and cytokines: why does the immune system have to be so complex |
| 1992 | John Bienenstock | From there to here |
| 1991 | Emil Skamene | Experiments of nature and natural resistance |
| 1990 | John Roder | The ghost of Metchnikov |
| 1989 | Rick Miller | T cell differentiation |
| 1988 | Alec Sehon | Tolerogenic derivatives of biologically active antigens for therapeutic intervention |
| 1987 | Hardy Cinader | Developmental change in the second half of life - challenge and opportunity |
This John D. Reynolds award is given for a long term member of the CSI for their exceptional service to CSI. The award can be, but is not necessarily, given each year.
| Year | Recipient |
| 2022 | Juan Carlos (JC) Zúñiga-Pflücker University of Toronto |
| 2021 | Sylvie Lesage University of Montreal |
| 2020 | Hanna Ostergaard University of Alberta |
| 2018 | Tania Watts University of Toronto |
| 2017 | Michelle Letarte University of Toronto |
| 2016 | Gillian Wu York University |
| 2014 | Hermann Ziltener University of British Columbia |
| 2012 | Marianna Newkirk University of Toronto |
| 2011 | Michael Ratcliffe University of Toronto |
| 2010 | Bhagirath Singh University of Western Ontario |
| 2023 | Dr. Daniela Quail McGill University |
| 2022 | Dr. Matthew Macauley University of Alberta |
| 2021 | Dr. Judith N. Mandl McGill University |
| 2020 | Dr. Jean-Philippe Julien University of Toronto |
| 2019 | Dr. Bebhinn Treanor University of Toronto |
| 2018 | Dr. Martin J. Richer McGill University |
| 2017 | Dr. Clinton Robbins University of Toronto |
| 2016 | Dr. Irah King McGill University |
| 2015 | Dr. Mani Larijani Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| 2014 | Dr. Colby Zaph University of British Columbia |
| 2013 | Dr. Troy Baldwin University of Alberta |
| 2012 | Dr. Yan Shi University of Calgary |
| 2011 | Dr. James R. Carlyle University of Toronto |
| 2010 | Dr. Maya Saleh McGill University |
| 2009 | Dr. Megan Levings University of British Columbia |
| 2008 | Dr. Alberto Martin University of Toronto |
| 2007 | Dr. Tong-Jun Lin Dalhousie University |
| 2006 | Dr. Andrew P. Makrigiannis University of Montreal |
| 2023 | Dr. Kelly McNagny University of British Columbia |
| 2022 | Dr. Kathy McCoy University of Calgary |
| 2021 | Dr. Nathalie Labrecque University of Montreal |
| 2020 | Dr. Naoto Hirano University of Toronto |
| 2019 | Dr. Alberto Martin University of Toronto |
| 2018 | Dr. Megan Levings University of British Columbia |
| 2017 | Dr. Jude Uzonna University of Manitoba |
| 2016 | Dr. Jen Gommerman University of Toronto |
| 2015 | Dr. Dana Philpott University of Toronto |
| 2014 | Dr. Martin Olivier McGill University |
| 2013 | Dr. Hanne Ostergaard University of Alberta |
| 2012 | Dr. Eleanor Fish University of Toronto |
| 2011 | Dr. Pamela S. Ohashi University of Toronto |
| 2010 | Dr. Paul Kubes University of Calgary |
| 2008 | Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker University of Toronto |
| 2007 | Dr. Linda Matsuuchi University of British Columbia |
| 2006 | Dr. Tania H. Watts University of Toronto |
Travel awards for CSI membership students, post-doctoral fellows and investigators are available for the annual CSI meeting. Notice for accepting applications is sent out via email in early December. See attached for past CSI Annual Meeting travel award winners.
Every three years, the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) Congress holds it’s international conference. CSI provides travel awards for Junior Investigators, Students and Postdoctoral fellows to attend the meeting. See at list of past winners.
