Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI
website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Prof. Dr. Santiago Moreno
Prof. Dr. Santiago Moreno
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Section Board Member
Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
Interests: HIV/AIDS; SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19; human monkeypox virus; immunology; pathogenesis; antiviral treatment; vaccines
Dr. Jean-Christophe Paillart
Dr. Jean-Christophe Paillart
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Section Board Member
CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
Interests: HIV; RNA; structure, assembly, packaging; Vif restriction factors; innate immunity; APOBEC3
Dr. Jean Christophe Plantier
Dr. Jean Christophe Plantier
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Section Board Member
Department of Virology, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
Interests: viremia; viral load; human immunodeficiency virus 1; phylogeny; HIV-1; RNA directed DNA polymerase inhibitor; anti human immunodeficiency virus agent
Dr. Eva Poveda
Dr. Eva Poveda
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Section Board Member
Group of Virology and Pathogenesis, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, 36213 Vigo, Spain
Interests: HIV/AIDS; SARS-CoV-2/COVID19; Viral hepatitis; pathogenesis; HIV drug resistance; molecular epidemiology; extracellular vesicles (EVs)
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Prof. Dr. Flor Helene Pujol
Prof. Dr. Flor Helene Pujol
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Section Board Member
Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular (CMBC), Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
Interests: hepatitis viruses; HIV; SARS-CoV-2; influenza; emerging viruses; viral genomics
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Dr. Lorenza Putignani
Dr. Lorenza Putignani
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Section Board Member
Department of Diagnostic and Laboratory Medicine, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, 00146 Rome, Italy
Interests: microbiomics; proteomics; metaproteomics; metabolomics; microbiology
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Section Board Member
Department of Pathology, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W Markham St., Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
Interests: KSHV; human endogenous retrovirus
Dr. Olivier Reynard
Dr. Olivier Reynard
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Section Board Member
Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Team Immunobiology of Viral infections, Univ Lyon, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 21 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69007 Lyon, France
Interests: highly pathogenic viruses; viral reservoir; bat-associated viruses
Dr. Roberta Rizzo
Dr. Roberta Rizzo
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Section Board Member
Section of Microbiology, Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences and LTTA, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
Interests: herpesvirus; innate immunity; viral infection; immune cell response; bacterial biofilm
Dr. Eugenia Quiros Roldan
Dr. Eugenia Quiros Roldan
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Section Board Member
Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia and ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: HIV infection; COVID-19; antiretroviral therapy
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Section Board Member
Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
Interests: infectious disease; virology; animal models; therapeutics; vaccines
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Prof. Dr. Vittorio Sambri
Prof. Dr. Vittorio Sambri
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Section Board Member
Professor of Microbiology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy AND Unit of Microbiology - The Great Romagna Hub Laboratory, Pievesestina (FC), Italy
Interests: spirochetes; molecular diagnosis; emerging infections; West Nile virus; Usutu Virus;
Treponema pallidum;
Borrelia spp.; Chikungunya
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Rafael Sanjuán
Prof. Dr. Rafael Sanjuán
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Section Board Member
Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Universitat de València, C/Catedrático Agustín Escardino 9, Paterna, 46980 València, Spain
Interests: virus evolution; experimental and directed evolution; virus genetic diversity; phage discovery; phage therapy
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Section Board Member
Department of Clinical Sciences, Immunovirology Unit, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
Interests: human enteroviruses; viral pathogenesis; immunology; virus–host interactions; chronic viral infection; molecular epidemiology of enteroviruses
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Section Board Member
Laboratory of Virology, Department of Molecular Medicine, Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: virus–host interaction; antiviral immunity; virus interferon resistance; flavivirus, HIV; respiratory infectious diseases; cystic fibrosis; COVID-19 pathogenesis
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Prof. Dr. Oliver Schildgen
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schildgen
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Section Board Member
Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Klinikum der Privaten Universität Witten/Herdecke mit Sitz in Köln, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, D-51109 Köln (Cologne), Germany
Interests: human bocavirus (HBoV); herpes simplex virus; respiratory viruses; viruses and cancer
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Dr. Stephanie N. Seifert
Dr. Stephanie N. Seifert
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Section Board Member
1. Virus Ecology Section, Laboratory of Virology, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
2. Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: molecular ecology; population genetics; phylogenetics; viral evolution; wildlife reservoirs; virology
Dr. Ruth Serra-Moreno
Dr. Ruth Serra-Moreno
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Section Board Member
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Interests: HIV; SARS-CoV-2; restriction factors; innate immunity; autophagy; latency; Tetherin/BST2; SERINC3; SERINC5
Prof. Dr. Paul M. Sharp
Prof. Dr. Paul M. Sharp
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Section Board Member
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
Interests: evolution of malaria parasites; evolution of viruses; codon usage
Prof. Dr. Gary Simon
Prof. Dr. Gary Simon
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Section Board Member
Department of Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Interests: HIV/AIDS;antiretroviral therapies; immunology; virology; Metabolic complications
Prof. Dr. Vicente Soriano
Prof. Dr. Vicente Soriano
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Section Board Member
UNIR Health Sciences School & Medical Center, 28224 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
Interests: HIV; HTLV; hepatitis B; hepatitis C; hepatitis delta; sexually transmitted infections; antiviral therapy
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Dr. Arvind Varsani
Dr. Arvind Varsani
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Section Board Member
The Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, Center for Evolution and Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Interests: virus evolution; virus ecology
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Vilcek
Prof. Dr. Stefan Vilcek
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Section Board Member
Department of Epizootiology and Preventive Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Komenskeho 73, 041 81 Kosice, Slovakia
Interests: animal viruses; molecular virology; analysis of animal virus genomes; molecular detection of animal viruses; phylogeny; molecular epidemiology
Dr. Clayton Winkler
Dr. Clayton Winkler
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Section Board Member
Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, DIR, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
Interests: neurovirology; neurotropic virus pathogenesis; CNS immunity; blood-brain brain barrier; orthobunyavirus; flavivirus
Dr. Hui-Lin Wu
Dr. Hui-Lin Wu
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Section Board Member
Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Interests: liver disease; molecular virology; HBV; HCC; MASLD
Prof. Dr. Xiaojian Yao
Prof. Dr. Xiaojian Yao
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Section Board Member
Laboratory of Molecular Human Retrovirology, Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Interests: HIV replication; protein-protein interactions; anti-HIV gene therapy; vaccines
Dr. Keivan Zandi
Dr. Keivan Zandi
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Section Board Member
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interests: antiviral research; arbovirology; molecular virology; natural products for drug discovery; infectious disease; molecular epidemiology; cancer research
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Prof. Dr. Roland Zell
Prof. Dr. Roland Zell
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Section Board Member
Section of Experimental Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07745 Jena, Germany
Interests: evolution of picornaviruses; molecular biology of picornaviruses; swine influenza viruses; evolution of influenza viruses