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CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Alan McLachlan

New Content ItemUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

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Leo Poon

Leo PoonUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

MANAGING EDITOR

Haogao Gu

Haogao Gu University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

SECTION EDITORS

John Barr

New Content ItemUniversity of Leeds, United Kingdom

Research website

ORCID profile
 

Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Bunyavirales, Arenaviruses, Orthobunyaviruses, Nairoviruses
 

Marco A. Campos

New Content ItemFiocruz Minas, Brazil

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ORCID profile
 


Sections: Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae)

Specialisms: Innate immunity; HSV-1, SARS-CoV-2, Dengue, Zika; TLRs
 

Linda Chelico

New Content ItemUniversity of Saskatchewan, Canada

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ORCID profile

Twitter: @ChelicoUSASK

Sections: Retroviruses

Specialisms: Virus-host interactions, APOBEC3, HIV, Mutagenesis, Protein interactions, Nucleic acid interactions, Cancer
 

Wan-Long Chuang

Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Tony Cunningham

New Content ItemThe Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia

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Sections: Herpes viruses

Specialisms: HIV, Herpes virus, Vaccine, COVID, Virology, Immunology
 

Erna Geessien Kroon

New Content ItemUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Sections: Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae)

Specialisms: Virology, Poxvirus, DNA viruses, Flavivirus, Coronavirus

Frederick Kibenge

New Content ItemUniversity of Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Veterinary College, Canada

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Sections: Clinical virology

Specialisms: Veterinary virology, Immunology, Diagnostic veterinary microbiology
 

Chikara Masuta

New Content ItemHokkaido University, Japan

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Sections: Plant viruses

Specialisms: Plant virus, RNA silencing, Satellite RNA, Epigenetics, Viral vector

Kin On Kwok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sections: Clinical virology

Tom Geisbert, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Sections: Emerging viruses

Chad Mire, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA
Sections: Emerging viruses

Hualan Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Sections: Influenza viruses

Chengjun Li, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Sections: Influenza viruses

Supriya Chakraborty, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Sections: Plant viruses

Jason Mackenzie, The University of Melbourne, Australia 
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses

Rushika Perera, Colorado State University, USA
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses

Molly Ohainle, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Sections: Retroviruses

Gerlinde Van de Walle, Cornell University, USA 
Sections: Veterinary DNA viruses

Walid Azab, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Sections: Veterinary DNA viruses

Joana Azeredo, University of Minho, Portugal
Sections: Viruses of microbes

Małgorzata Łobocka, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Poland 
Sections: Viruses of microbes

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Mairaj Ahmed Ansari

New Content ItemJamia Hamdard, India

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Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Herpes viruses, Influenza viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Host pathogen interaction, Molecular virology, Clinical virology, Molecular immunology, Nanomedicine and immunology
 

Gillian Air

New Content ItemUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, United States of America

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ORCID profile

Sections: Influenza viruses

Specialisms: Influenza virus glycoproteins

Jonatas Abrahao

New Content ItemUFMG, Brazil

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 Sections: Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae), Viruses of microbes

Specialisms: Giant virus, Evolution, Genomics, Virus ecology
 

Andreina Baj

New Content ItemUniversity of Insubria, Italy

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ORCID profile
 

Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses

Specialisms: Persistent viral infections, Emergent viral infections, Inflammatory intestinal diseases, Molecular diagnosis
 

Roberto Bruzzone

New Content ItemInstitut Pasteur, France

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Sections: Influenza viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Cell biology of host-pathogen interactions
 

Tanushree Dangi

New Content ItemNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, United States of America

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Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Influenza viruses

Specialisms: Virology, Viral vaccines, Viral-immunology, Infectious viruses 
 

Siddhartha Datta

New Content ItemNational Cancer Institute, USA

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Sections: Retroviruses

Specialisms: HIV, Biochemistry, Structure, Virology, Spectroscopy

Franklin Wang-Ngai Chow

New Content ItemThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

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Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses

Specialisms: Microbiology, Small RNA, Extracellular vesicles, Diagnostics

Jaquelline Germano De Oliveira

New Content ItemFundação Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Brazil

Research website

ORCID profile
 

Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Antivirals, Arbovirus, Cancer biomarkers, Papillomavirus
 

Gulfaraz Khan

New Content ItemUnited Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

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ORCID profile

Twitter: @Dr_Gulfaraz

Sections: Herpes viruses

Specialisms: Viral pathology, Emerging viral infections, Infectious diseases
 

Anna Kramvis

New Content ItemUniversity of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Sections: Clinical virology, Hepatitis viruses, 

Specialisms: Hepatology, Molecular Virology, Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus
 

Shifang Li

New Content ItemInstitute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

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ORCID profile

Sections: Plant viruses, Viruses of microbes

Specialisms: Fruit tree viral diseases, Viroid
 

Hugo Oliveira

New Content ItemUniversity of Minho, Portugal

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Twitter: @Oliveira_HAM

Sections: Viruses of microbes

Specialisms: Bacterial infections, Bacteriophage, Genomics, Clinical Microbiology
 

Slobodan Paessler

New Content ItemUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, United States of America

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ORCID profile

Sections: Influenza viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses, Veterinary DNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Specialisms: Arenaviruses, Influenza, Encephalitis, Vaccines, Virus replication, Antivirals, Immune response, Viral vectors
 

Vitantonio Pantaleo

New Content Item (1)National Research Council, Italy

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ORCID profile

Sections: Plant viruses, Viruses of microbes

Specialisms: Plant viruses, RNA technologies, Gene expression and RNA silencing

Tung Phan

New Content ItemUniversity of Pittsburgh, United States of America

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ORCID profile
 

Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Hepatitis viruses, Herpes viruses, Influenza viruses

Specialisms: Clinical Virology, Evolution, Epidemiology, Molecular Diagnostics
 

Aguinaldo R. Pinto

New Content ItemFederal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

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ORCID profile
 

Sections: Clinical virology, Retroviruses

Specialisms: Retrovirus; HIV; Sars-CoV-2
 

Bergmann Ribeiro

New Content ItemUniversity of Brasilia, Brazil

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Sections: Emerging viruses, Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae), Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Insect viruses, Baculoviruses, Biological control

Edward Rybicki

New Content ItemUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa

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Twitter: @edrybicki

Sections: Veterinary DNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Specialisms: Vaccine biotechnology, Plant biotechnology, Molecular virology
 

Peter Sarnow

New Content ItemStanford University, United States of America

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ORCID profile
 

Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: RNA viruses, MicroRNAs, Circular RNAs

Nobuhiro Suzuki

New Content ItemIPSR, Okayama University, Japan

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ORCID profile

Sections: Viruses of microbes

Specialisms: Fungal virus, dsRNA virus, RNA silencing, Neo-lifestyle

Kok Keng Tee

New Content ItemUniversity of Malaya, Malaysia 

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Sections: Retroviruses

Specialisms: Human immunodeficiency virus, Respiratory viruses
 

Vicki Traina-Dorge

New Content ItemTulane University School of Medicine, United States of America

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Sections: Sections: Herpes viruses, Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae), Retroviruses

Specialisms: Viral Diseases, Nonhuman Primate Models, Vaccines, Pathogenic Viruses, Varicella Virus, RSV, HIV, SIV, SARS CoV2
 

Tian Wang

New Content ItemUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, United States of America

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ORCID profile

Sections: Emerging viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: RNA viruses, Host Immunity, Neuropathogenesis, Vaccine Development, Antiviral agents

Manfred Weidmann

New Content ItemInstitute of Microbiology and Virology, Brandenburg Medical School, Germany

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Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Mobile Molecular Diagnostics, Arboviruses, Molecular Epidemiology of viruses, Aquaculture viruses

Ali Zaid

New Content ItemGriffith University, Australia

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Twitter: @DrAliZaid

Sections: Influenza viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Specialisms: Viral Immunology, Arboviruses, Host Responses, Innate Immunity, Viral Pathogenesis, Viral Arthritis, Inflammation
 

Yanjin Zhang

New Content ItemUniversity of Maryland, United States of America

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ORCID profile
 

Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses, Veterinary DNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Specialisms: Virology, Viral pathogenesis, Virus-cell interactions, Innate immunity, Vaccine, Antiviral drugs

Chunfu Zheng

New Content ItemUniversity of Calgary, Canada

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ORCID profile
 

Sections: Herpes viruses, Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae), Herpes viruses

Specialisms: Virus-host interaction, Innate immunity, Immune evasion, Innate immune signaling pathway, Regulation, PRR, PAMP
 

Fanxiu Zhu

New Content ItemFlorida State University, United States of America

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Sections: Herpes viruses

Specialisms: KSHV, Herpesvirus, Innate immunity 

Anna Eis-Hübinger, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany
Sections: Clinical virology

Tuck-Weng Kok, University of Adelaide, Australia
Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Influenza viruses, Retroviruses

Susanna Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Qingsheng Li, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Sections: Clinical virology, Influenza viruses, Retroviruses

Martin Linster, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Sections: Clinical virology, Influenza viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Hayes Luk, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sections: Clinical virology

David McGivern, University of North Carolina, USA
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Scott Michael, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Sections: Clinical virology, Positive-strand RNA viruses, Viruses of microbes

Francesco Negro, University Hospitals Geneva: Hopitaux Universitaires Geneve, Switzerland
Sections: Hepatitus viruses

Ana Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Sections: Viruses of microbes

Peter Revill, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Sections: Clinical virology, Hepatitis viruses

Randal Schoepp, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, USA
Sections: Clinical virology, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Chiaho Shih, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Siddharth Sridhar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sections: Clinical virology, Retroviruses

Jucelia Stadinicki dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Influenza viruses, Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae), Positive-strand RNA viruses, Retroviruses

Hong Tang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Sections: Clinical virology, Hepatitis viruses, Retroviruses

Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Sections: Clinical virology, Emerging viruses, Herpes viruses, Influenza viruses, Veterinary DNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Hung-Chih Yang, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
Sections: Clinical virology, Influenza viruses, Retroviruses

Ming-Whei Yu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Sections: Clinical virology, Hepatitis B

Tetsuro Ikegami, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Sections: Emerging viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses

Kui Li, University of Tennessee, USA
Sections: Emerging viruses, Hepatitis viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Chen Liang, McGill University, Canada
Sections: Emerging viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses, Retroviruses

João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Sections: Emerging viruses, Hepatitis viruses, Influenza viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae), Positive-strand RNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Chris Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sections: Emerging viruses, Influenza viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Lisa Ng, Singapore Immunology Network, A*Star, Singapore
Sections: Emerging viruses, Influenza viruses

Zhengli Shi, Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Sections: Emerging viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Jin Zhong, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sections: Emerging viruses, Hepatitis viruses

Lynn Dustin, University of Oxford, UK
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Zongdi Feng, Ohio State University, USA
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Haitao Guo, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Sections: Hepatitis viruses, Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae)

John Martin Kaldor, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Mei-Hsuan Lee, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Jisu Li, Brown University School of Medicine, USA
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Michael Robek, Albany Medical College, USA
Sections: Hepatitis viruses

David Bloom, University of Florida, USA
Sections: Herpes viruses

Wolfram Brune, Heinrich Pette Institute, Germany
Sections: Herpes viruses

Dirk Dittmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Sections: Herpes viruses

Ashlee Moses, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Sections: Herpes viruses

Benoit Muylkens, University of Namur, Belgium
Sections: Herpes viruses

Lijun Rong, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses

Peter Speck, Flinders University, Australia
Sections: Herpes viruses, Viruses of microbes

Linda van Dyk, University of Colorado, USA
Sections: Herpes viruses

Chung Yan Cheung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sections: Influenza viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Wenjun Ma, Kansas State University, USA
Sections: Influenza viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses

Redmond Smyth, University of Strasbourg, France
Sections: Influenza viruses

Michelle Tate, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Sections: Influenza viruses

Jiyong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China
Sections: Influenza viruses, Negative-strand RNA viruses, Veterinary DNA viruses

Felicity Burt, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Free State, South Africa
Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Valery Z. Grdzelishvili, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses

Zhenghe Li, Zhejiang University, China
Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses, Plant viruses

Shigeru Morikawa, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses

Connie S Schmaljohn, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, USA
Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses

Stuart Turville, The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sections: Negative-strand RNA viruses, Retroviruses

Gerard Orth, Institut Pasteur, France
Sections: Other viruses (e.g. pox, papilloma, parvo, reoviridae)

Masamichi Isogai, Iwate University, Japan
Sections: Plant viruses

Shih-Shun Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Sections: Plant viruses

Taiyun Wei, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
Sections: Plant viruses

Daniel Santos Mansur, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses

Prasad Paradkar, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Australia
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses

Karen Coats, Mississippi State University, USA
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses, Retroviruses

Niwat Maneekarn, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Sections: Positive-strand RNA viruses

Amy Chung, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sections: Retroviruses

Deborah Cromer, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sections: Retroviruses, Influenza viruses

Kei Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sections: Retroviruses

Kok-Keng Tee, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Sections: Retroviruses

Jian-Hua Wang, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sections: Retroviruses

David Lefebvre, CODA-CERVA, Belgium
Sections: Veterinary DNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Meredith E Stewart, University of Glasgow, UK
Sections: Veterinary DNA viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

Janne Ravantti, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sections: Viruses of microbes

Robert Geraghty, University of Minnesota, USA

FOUNDING EDITOR

Robert Garry, Tulane Medical School, USA