Young Investigator Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Pathogens 2021 Young Investigator Awards are Professor Si Ming Man and Dr. Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan.

Professor Man is a Professor of the innate immunity and inflammasome lab at the Australian National University. Professor Man’s research interest is investigating the role of innate immunity in infectious diseases and cancer. Professor Man received his PhD in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record in peer-reviewed international journals. Professor Man’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 4964 and his Hirsch index is 36.

Dr. Chan is a Clinical Assistant Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chan’s research interest is using state-of-the-art technologies in molecular medicine to investigate virus–host interactions and improve the diagnosis, treatment, and control of emerging pathogens. Dr. Chan received his PhD in 2017 and has an outstanding publishing record, comprising over 230 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Chan’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 18,182 and his Hirsch index is 61.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Man and Dr. Chan for their outstanding achievements.

As the awardees, Professor Man and Dr. Chan each will receive an honorarium of 1000 CHF, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 1st April 2022 in Pathogens after peer review, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Pathogens 2021 Young Investigator Awards Evaluation Committee

 

 
Pathogens 2021 Young Investigator Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Angelo Roberto Raccagni
Vita Salute San Raffaele University
Hannah Brown Harding
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Award Committee

Prof. Lawrence Young Chairman
University of Warwick
Dr. Marat R. Sadykov
Prof. Dr. Helmut Fickenscher
Institute for Infection Medicine
Prof. Ming Fan
Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph

Winner

Shuofeng Yuan
The University of Hong Kong
Rhea Longley
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)

Award Committee

Prof. Lawrence Young Chairman
University of Warwick
Dr. Stephanie Richards
Prof. Anders Sjöstedt
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Dr. Marat R. Sadykov
Prof. Dr. Valentina Virginia Ebani
University of Pisa
Prof. Dr. Alexis de ROUGEMONT
Centre National de Référence des Virus des gastro-entérites

Winner

Marta Giovanetti
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Carrie M. Long
Laboratory of Bacteriology, DIR, NIAID, NIH

Award Committee

Prof. Lawrence Young Chairman
University of Warwick
Dr. Vyacheslav Yurchenko
Dr. Jacob Lorenzo-Morales
Dr. Vivi Miriagou

Winner

Si Ming Man
The Australian National University
Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan
The University of Hong Kong

Award Committee

Prof. Lawrence Young Chairman
University of Warwick
Dr. David Rodríguez-Lázaro
University of Burgos
Prof. Sante Roperto
Naples University
Prof. Cristiano Salata
Department of Molecular Medicine - University of Padova
Dr. Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz
INRAE
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