Professor
Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases,
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Website:159.226.126.3/ktzgl/ktzdiy/shizl/english.asp Interest: emerging viral pathogens, especially bat origin viruses. Email
Advisory Board
Hualan Chen
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, China Website:www.researchgate.net/profile/Hualan_Chen Interest: The pathogenesis of avian influenza viruses Email
George F. Gao
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor, Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Website:www.im.ac.cn/english1/pi/gaofu.htm Interest: Gao’s lab is interested in protein-protein interactions related to molecular virology and molecular immunology and molecular epidemiology and molecular phylogeny of zoonotic pathogens Email
Xinyuan Liu
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS, China Website:sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_sibs_cas/yw/rck/200906/t20090629_1856118.html Interest: His major interest and aim is to cure the cancer patients and also to control the viral disease especial the hepatitis B or C disease. Email
Hongbin Shu
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor and Director, Medical Research Institute
Vice President, Wuhan University, China Website:mri.whu.edu.cn/info/1094/1597.htm Interest: Mechanisms of innate antiviral immune responses and inflammation Email
Po Tien
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences Website:sourcedb.im.cas.cn/english Interest: Molecular mechanism of viral immunity, enveloped virus-cell fusion and its inhibitors Email; Email
Fu-Sheng Wang
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China Website:210.76.211.71/~0045104 Interest: Therapy of Viral hepatitis and HIV Email
Linfa Wang
Professor & Director
Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Website:www.duke-nus.edu.sg/eid/content/wang-linfa Interest: He is an expert in identifying new and emerging diseases of bat origin. Email
Yumei Wen
Academy member of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor of Institute of Medical Microbiology, Fudan University;
Professor of Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Ministry of Education/Ministry of Health, China Website:www.researchgate.net/profile/Yu_Mei_Wen Interest: Her interests are in research of molecular virology and immunology of hepatitis B virus, and in microbial functional genomic studies. Email
Jianguo Xu
Academy member, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China Website: Interest: Email
Kwok-Yung Yuen
Academy member, Chinese Academy of Engineering ;
Henry Fok Professor in Infectious Diseases;
Chair of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, the University of Hong Kong, China Website:www.microbiology.hku.hk/staff/staff_hp/Prof_KY_Yuen.html Interest: Emerging infectious diseases, including the Influenza A viruses, novel Human Coronavirus, the bat SARS coronavirus. Email
Associate Editors
Basil M. Arif
Scientist Emeritus,
Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Website: Interest: Biology and molecular biology of insect viruses. Email
Dimiter Dimitrov
Professor,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA Website:ccr.cancer.gov/Cancer-and-Inflammation-Program/dimiter-s-dimitrov Interest: His major long-term goal is the development of clinically useful therapeutics and vaccines against cancer, HIV-1 and emerging and biodefense-related viruses as well as other related diseases including immune disorders. Email
Wuhan University, China Website:www.bio.whu.edu.cn/index.php/View/2138 Interest: Lan’s lab is focusing on two human tumor viruses, which are Kaposi’s Sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Hepatitis B virus (HBV). Email; Email
University of Texas Medical Branch, USA Website:bmb.utmb.edu/faculty/shi.asp Interest: Shi’s lab focuses on flaviviruses that cause significant human diseases, such as dengue, Zika, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis viruses. Email
Yi-Wei Tang
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA Website:www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/doctors/yi-wei-tang Interest: He is interested in the application of cutting-edge and panomic techniques in clinical and translational research for the diagnosis and monitoring of microbial infections focusing on clinical relevance and outcomes. Email; Email
Jianwei Wang
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China Website: Interest: Email
Yan-Yi Wang
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China Website:159.226.126.127:8082/web/48003/english Interest: Dr Wang's research is focused on molecular mechanisms of antiviral innate immunity and inflammation. Email
Yuntao Wu
George Mason University, USA Website:mason.gmu.edu/~ywu8/WuLab/home.html Interest: Dr. Wu’s research has predominantly focused on a particular subset of cellular factors during HIV infection. Email
National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA Website:irp.nih.gov/pi/zhi-ming-zheng Interest: His research interests center on the RNA processing and tumorigenesis of tumor viruses including papillomaviruses and Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Email
Editorial Board
Jing An
Capital Medical University, China Website: Interest: Email
Thomas Baumert
University of Strasbourg, France Website:www.virology-education.com/thomas-baumert-md/ Interest: His laboratory focuses on the modeling and discovery of the biological circuits underlying viral persistence and virus-induced disease such as chronic inflammation and cancer. As a model he uses chronic hepatitis B and C virus infection – a major cause of chronic liver disease and cancer world-wide. Email
Sina Bavari
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, USA Website: Interest: His research focused on therapeutic countermeasures against filoviruses. Email
Uniformed Services University, USA Website:www.usuhs.edu/national/faculty/christopher-broder-phd Interest: His laboratory has focused on virus-host cell interactions with an emphasis on virus receptor discovery, virus entry and virus-mediated membrane fusion, vaccines and antibody therapeutics development. Research areas include HIV-1 and emerging Email; Email; Email
Ling Chen
Guangzhou Medical University, China Website:people.ucas.ac.cn/~0009323?language=en Interest: New technologies for antibody discovery and vaccine delivery, and HIV Vaccine and Influenza research; Email; Email
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China Website:sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_whiov_cas/yw/rck/201603/t20160314_4549390.html Interest: Taking emerging infectious viruses and endogenous viruses as example, Dr Cui’s research areas include virus evolution, model construction for the interaction of virus and host cells, and the influences of endogenous virus to host genome Email
Institute of Biophysics, China Website:english.ibp.cas.cn/ibp_pi/AG/201311/t20131128_113437.html Interest: Dr Deng’s main research interests are to investigate the replication mechanisms of viruses and virus-host interactions, so as to gain insights into viral pathogenesis and to develop better therapeutics and diagnosis. Email
Lanying Du
New York Blood Center, USA Website:nybloodcenter.org/products-services/kimball-research-institute/langing-du-phd/ Interest: The research focus of Dr. Du’s lab is on the development of antiviral therapeutic agents and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of HIV infection/AIDS and other emerging and remerging infectious diseases caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and influenza viruses, as well as the blood transfusion-related viruses, including zika virus (ZIKV) and West Nile virus (WNV). Email
Min Fang
Institute of Microbiology, CAS, China Website:sourcedb.im.cas.cn/english/zjrck/fs/201211/t20121115_3683669.html Interest: The current research in our laboratory mainly focuses on understanding the role of Natural Killer (NK) cells in infectious diseases and cancers, especially the role of age-dependent defect of NK cells in regulating increased susceptibility to viral infections and cancer carcinogenesis. Email
Zheng F. Fu
University of Georgia, USA Website:vet.uga.edu/vpp/people/fu Interest: Dr. Fu is involved in the research of neuropathogenesis of rabies as well as other virus infections such as respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, and influenza virus. Email
The Pennsylvania State University, USA Website:profiles.psu.edu/profiles/display/113380 Interest: Dr Hu’s lab is focusing on the Hepatitis B virus, especially on the virus-host interactions, at the molecular and cellular level, which are critical to HBV replication and pathogenesis, and cellular factors required for viral infection and replication. Email
Qinxue Hu
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China Website:159.226.126.127:8082/web/64767/5 Interest: Dr. Hu’s lab is focused on HIV research, especially for 1)HIV-1 mucosal infection and immunity; 2) HSV-2/HIV-1 co-infection and inhibition; 3) Early infection and intervention of mucosally transmitted viruses Email; Email
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA Website:www.uthsc.edu/molecular_sciences/directories/faculty/k_li.php Interest: Work in the Li laboratory is centered on two main themes. The first one is to dissect innate immunity to infections by positive-strand RNA viruses such as hepatitis C virus and related viruses. We are studying how these viruses are detected by host innate immune sensors such as the Toll-like receptors and RIG-I-like receptors, leading to antiviral and inflammatory responses. The second focus area is to investigate how TRIM56, a tripartite motif protein, contributes to innate antiviral immunity. Email
Qihan Li
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China Website:www.imbcams.ac.cn/Item/15451.aspx Interest: Dr Li’s lab is focused on the basic research of viral immunity, such as HSV-1, EV71 and CA16, viral vaccine development and quality control. Email
Wenhui Li
National Institute of Biological Sciences, China Website: Interest: Email
Zhenghe Li
Zhejiang University, China Website:www.nibs.ac.cn/en/yjsjyimgshow.php?cid=5&sid=6&id=769 Interest: Dr Li’s lab combines virology, biochemistry, chemical biology, immunology, and animal models to investigate molecular mechanisms of infection of Hepatitis B virus (HBV). Email
Di Liu
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China Website: Interest: Dr. Liu’s Lab is interested in the area of Viral Genomics and Evolution. The researches are focused on applying sequencing and bioinformatic approaches to solve the evolutionary issues of viruses. Email
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China Website:www.yunsda.cn/bdx-en/index.php/View/35 Interest: 1) RNAi-mediated innate antiviral immunity and viral evasion of RNAi; 2) Viral RNA replication; 3) RNA remodeling proteins for viral life cycle; 4) Surface display technology based on virus-like particles (VLPs) of insect viruses Email
Fanxiu Zhu
Florida State University, USA Website:www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-zhu.php Interest: His laboratory studies Kaposi’s sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV), a human DNA tumor virus associated with several human malignancies. Email