Viral Infections and the Immune Response: New Perspectives
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 1606
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The intricate interaction between viruses and the host immune system is a focal point of contemporary biomedical research. Viral infections pose significant challenges to global health, as evidenced by recent pandemics that have tested our scientific and medical communities. Understanding the immune responses elicited during viral infections is crucial for developing effective vaccines, therapeutics, and public health strategies.
This Special Issue aims to compile cutting-edge research and reviews investigating how the immune system recognizes, responds to, and remembers viral pathogens. We seek to illuminate innate and adaptive immune responses and explore how viruses evade or manipulate these defenses to establish infection.
We invite submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Innate immune recognition: pattern recognition receptors, signaling pathways;
- Adaptive immunity and memory formation: T-cell and B-cell responses;
- Viral immune evasion strategies: tactics to circumvent host defenses;
- Host–pathogen interactions: cellular and molecular interplay;
- Immunogenetics: genetic factors influencing immunity;
- Vaccine development: innovations in immunization strategies;
- Immunotherapy: treatments modulating the immune system;
- Co-infections and immunopathology: impact of concurrent infections;
- Emerging viral threats: responses to new viruses;
- Age-related anti-viral immune dysregulation.
By bringing together diverse insights from immunology, virology, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and clinical research, this issue aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and advance our collective understanding of immune responses to viral infections.
Dr. Jian Zheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- viral infections
- immune responses
- innate immunity
- adaptive immunity
- immune recognition
- host–pathogen interactions
- immunogenetics
- vaccine development
- immunotherapy
- immunopathology
- virology
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