Eric O. Freed, Editor-in-Chief of Viruses (ISSN: 1999-4915), recently organized a virtual 3-day COVID-19 workshop featuring many of the world’s leaders in coronavirus research (see below). The workshop was held from 1 to 3 March 2022, with technical and logistical support provided by MDPI conference staff. The talks were organized into three sessions: coronavirus biology, pathogenesis and immunity; vaccine development and antivirals; and neutralization and resistance. Time was allocated at the end of each morning and afternoon session for open discussion.
Participants in the workshop included: Drs. Charlie Rice, Dan Barouch, Brenda Hogue, Ralph Baric, Gary Whittaker, Linda Saif, Michael Worobey, Mike Diamond, Barney Graham, Matt Frieman, Angie Rasmussen, Alex Compton, Akiko Iwasaki, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Malik Peiris, Kathryn Holmes, Stanley Perlman, Jason McLellan, Yize (Henry) Li, Drew Weissman, Zhengli Shi, Olivier Schwartz, Luis Enjuanes, Pamela Bjorkman, David Veesler, Kizzmekia Corbett, Linfa Wang, Bart Haynes, Britt Glaunsinger, Mark Denison, Vineet Menachery, Kanta Subbarao, Penny Moore, Stefan Pohlmann, Vincent Munster, Shan-Lu Liu, Erica Ollmann-Saphire, Michel Nussenzweig, Pei-Yong Shi, George Gao, Jesse Bloom, Paul Bieniasz, Jeremy Luban, and Susan Weiss.
