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CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Alan McLachlan

New Content ItemUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

Research website

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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

Research website

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

Research website

ORCID profile

Twitter: @ChelicoUSASK

Sections: Retroviruses

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

Wan-Long Chuang

New Content ItemKaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan

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Sections: Hepatitis viruses

Tony Cunningham

New Content ItemThe Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Australia

Research website

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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

Research website

ORCID profile


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

Research website

ORCID profile

Sections: Clinical virology

Specialisms: Veterinary virology, Immunology, Diagnostic veterinary microbiology
 

Vitantonio Pantaleo

New Content Item (1)National Research Council, Italy

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Sections: Plant viruses, Viruses of microbes

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

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Mairaj Ahmed Ansari

New Content ItemJamia Hamdard, India

Research website

ORCID profile

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
 

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

Research website

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

Research website

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Sections: Influenza viruses, Positive-strand RNA viruses

Specialisms: Cell biology of host-pathogen interactions
 

Chi Ping Chan

New Content ItemThe University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 Research website

 ORCID Profile

 Sections: Clinical Virology

 Specialisms: Molecular Virology, Innate immunity, Immune evasion, Viral-host interaction, Influenza viruses, Coronaviruses

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

Research website

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Sections: Retroviruses

Specialisms: HIV, Biochemistry, Structure, Virology, Spectroscopy

Franklin Wang-Ngai Chow

New Content ItemThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Research website

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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

Research website

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Twitter: @Dr_Gulfaraz

Sections: Herpes viruses

Specialisms: Viral pathology, Emerging viral infections, Infectious diseases
 

Shifang Li

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

Research website

ORCID profile

Sections: Plant viruses, Viruses of microbes

Specialisms: Fruit tree viral diseases, Viroid
 

Yi-Ping Li

New Content ItemZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China

 Research website

 ORCID Profile

 Section: Clinical Virology

 Specialisms: Molecular Virology, Flaviviridae viruses, Hepatitis viruses, Reverse genetic systems, Infection models

Shih-Shun Lin

New Content Item National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 Research website

 ORCID Profile

 Sections: Plant viruses

 Specialisms: Plant virology, Biotechnology, Molecular biology, Bioinformatics

Hugo Oliveira

New Content ItemUniversity of Minho, Portugal

Research website

ORCID profile

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

Research website

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
 

Tung Phan

New Content ItemUniversity of Pittsburgh, United States of America

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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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Sections: Clinical virology, Retroviruses

Specialisms: Retrovirus; HIV; Sars-CoV-2
 

Nobuhiro Suzuki

New Content ItemIPSR, Okayama University, Japan

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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
 

Tian Wang

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

Research website

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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

Feng Wen

New Content ItemFoshan University, China

Research website

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Sections:  Clinical Virology

Specialisms: Emerging viruses, Influenza viruses, Veterinary RNA viruses

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

Research website

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 

FOUNDING EDITOR

Robert Garry, Tulane Medical School, USA

Editor-in-Chief
Vitantonio Pantaleo, National Research Council, Italy

Managing Editor
Chee Wah Tan, Duke-NUS, Singapore

Clinical virology

Section Editor
Fred Kibenge, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Deputy Section Editor
Kin On Kwok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Associate Editors
Mairaj A Ansari, Jamia Hamdard, India
Andreina Baj MD, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Chi Ping Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Franklin WN Chow, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Tanushree Dangi, Northwestern University, USA
Jaquelline Germano de Oliveira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Jee-Fu Huang, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Anna Eis-Hübinger, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany
Tuck-Weng Kok, University of Adelaide, Australia
Susanna Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yi-Ping Li, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Martin Linster, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Hayes Luk, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Scott Michael, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Aguinaldo Pinto, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Hong Tang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Taha Taha, Gladstone Institute of Virology , USA
Feng Wen, Foshan University, China
Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Hung-Chih Yang, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
Ming-Whei Yu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Emerging viruses

Section Editor
Tom Geisbert, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA

Deputy Section Editor
Chad Mire, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA

Associate Editors
Mairaj A Ansari, Jamia Hamdard, India
Andreina Baj MD, Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Guillaume Carissimo , National University of Singapore , Singapore
Franklin WN Chow, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tanushree Dangi, Northwestern University, USA
Jaquelline Germano de Oliveira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz , Brazil
Tetsuro Ikegami, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Tuck-Weng Kok, University of Adelaide, Australia
Susanna Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kui Li, University of Tennessee, USA
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Chris Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lisa Ng, Singapore Immunology Network, A*Star, Singapore
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Zhengli Shi, Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Tian Wang, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Jin Zhong, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Hepatitis viruses

Section Editor
Wan-Long Chuang, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Alan McLachlan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Associate Editors
Zongdi Feng, Ohio State University, USA
Haitao Guo, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Mei-Hsuan Lee, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Kui Li, University of Tennessee, USA
David McGivern, University of North Carolina, USA
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Francesco Negro, University Hospitals Geneva: Hopitaux Universitaires Geneve, Switzerland
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Peter Revill, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Michael Robek, Albany Medical College, USA
Hong Tang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Ming-Whei Yu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jin Zhong, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Herpes viruses

Section Editor
Blossom Damania, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Associate Editors
Mairaj A Ansari, Jamia Hamdard, India
Tony Cunningham, The Westmead Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
Gulfaraz Khan, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Ashlee Moses, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Lijun Rong, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Peter Speck, Flinders University, Australia
Linda van Dyk, University of Colorado, USA
Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Chunfu Zheng, Fujian Medical University, China
Fanxiu Zhu, Florida State University, USA

Influenza viruses

Section Editor
Hualan Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Deputy Section Editor
Chengjun Li, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Associate Editors
Mairaj A Ansari, Jamia Hamdard, India
Roberto Bruzzone, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tanushree Dangi, Northwestern University, USA
Tuck-Weng Kok, University of Adelaide, Australia
Martin Linster, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Chris Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lisa Ng, Singapore Immunology Network, A*Star, Singapore
Slobodan Paessler, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Lijun Rong, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Redmond Smyth, University of Strasbourg, France
Michelle Tate, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Hung-Chih Yang, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
Jiyong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China

Negative-strand RNA viruses

Deputy Section Editor
John Barr, University of Leeds, UK

Associate Editors
Mairaj A Ansari, Jamia Hamdard, India
Felicity Burt, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Free State, South Africa
Tetsuro Ikegami, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Susanna Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Zhenghe Li, Zhejiang University, China
Martin Linster, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Slobodan Paessler, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Lijun Rong, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Manfred Weidmann, University of Stirling, UK
Jiyong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China

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

Section Editor
Erna Geessien Kroon, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Deputy Section Editor
Marco Antônio Campos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil

Associate Editors
Jônatas Abrahão, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Haitao Guo, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Gerard Orth, Institut Pasteur, France
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Chunfu Zheng, Fujian Medical University, China

Plant viruses

Deputy Section Editor
Supriya Chakraborty, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Associate Editors
Shifang Li, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Zhenghe Li, Zhejiang University, China
Shih-Shun Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Positive-strand RNA viruses

Section Editor
Jason Mackenzie, The University of Melbourne, Australia 

Deputy Section Editor
Rushika Perera, Colorado State University, USA

Associate Editors
Mairaj A Ansari, Jamia Hamdard, India
Roberto Bruzzone, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Felicity Burt, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Free State, South Africa
Jaquelline Germano de Oliveira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz , Brazil
Susanna Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kui Li, University of Tennessee, USA
Martin Linster, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Scott Michael, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Chris Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Slobodan Paessler, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Prasad Paradkar, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Australia
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Lijun Rong, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Zhengli Shi, Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Tian Wang, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Manfred Weidmann, University of Stirling, UK
Yanjin Zhang, University of Maryland, USA

Retroviruses

Section Editor
Linda Chelico, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Associate Editors
Karen Coats, Mississippi State University, USA
Tony Cunningham, The Westmead Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
Siddhartha A.K Datta, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA
Tuck-Weng Kok, University of Adelaide, Australia
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Aguinaldo Pinto, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lijun Rong, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Kei Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Redmond Smyth, University of Strasbourg, France
Hong Tang, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China
Kok-Keng Tee, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Jian-Hua Wang, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hung-Chih Yang, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan

Veterinary DNA viruses

Section Editor
Gerlinde Van de Walle, Cornell University, USA 

Deputy Section Editor
Walid Azab, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Associate Editors
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Slobodan Paessler, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Yanjin Zhang, University of Maryland, USA
Jiyong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China

Veterinary RNA viruses

Section Editor
Siba Samal, University of Maryland, USA

Associate Editors
Felicity Burt, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Free State, South Africa
Susanna Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
João R. Mesquita, University of Porto, Portugal
Slobodan Paessler, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Samuel Workenhe, McMaster University, Canada
Yanjin Zhang, University of Maryland, USA
Chunfu Zheng, Fujian Medical University, China
Jiyong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China

Viruses of microbes

Section Editor
Joana Azeredo, University of Minho, Portugal

Deputy Section Editor
Małgorzata Łobocka, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Poland 

Associate Editors
Jônatas Abrahão, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Michela Gambino, Royal Danish Academy, Denmark
Shifang Li, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Scott Michael, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Hugo Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Vitantonio Pantaleo, National Research Council, Italy
Tung Phan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Janne Ravantti, University of Helsinki, Finland
Peter Speck, Flinders University, Australia
Nobuhiro Suzuki, Okayama University, Japan

Founding Editor
Robert Garry, Tulane Medical School, USA