ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Jonathan J. Lyons, MD, graduated with a BA in Chemistry from Pomona College in 2003 and received his MD from USC in 2007. He subsequently completed residency training in Internal Medicine at UCSD in 2010, where he served as a Chief Resident in 2011, and concluded his formal medical training in 2014 at NIAID as a Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology. That year he was selected for the NIAID Transition Program in Clinical Research and named an Assistant Clinical Investigator in the Laboratory of Allergic Diseases. In 2015 he was awarded the AAAAI Foundation/The Mastocytosis Society Research Award in Mastocytosis and/or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome in order to support his ongoing studies on the hereditary basis for elevated basal serum tryptase. Dr. Lyons received NIAID Merit Awards in 2016 and 2017 for related work, and in 2018 Dr. Lyons received the Lasker Clinical Research Scholarship Award. Based upon this track-record of success, in late 2018 he was appointed as a tenure-track investigator and named the Chief of the Translational Allergic Immunopathology Unit.
Dr. Lyons participates in a number of intramural activities at NIH, including the Allergy/Immunology Clinical Fellowship Training Program where he serves on the Program Evaluation, Fellowship Selection, and Mentorship Committees. He is also an integral member of the NIAID Human Genetics Committee, where he helped to create a framework for intramural policies governing reporting of genetic sequencing results within the institute. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the NIAID Clinical Genomics Program and is the Medical Advisory Investigator for the NIAID Genomic Research Integration System.