Outstanding Reviewer Award
The Outstanding Reviewer Award is given annually to recognize reviewers who generously contribute their time to reviewing papers and display thoroughness and professionalism while doing so. Winners will be chosen from all previous year’s reviewers and revealed by the end of March each year.
The Prize:
–CHF 500;
–A certificate;
–A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.
Number of Winners: 3
Pathogens Outstanding Reviewer Award
Winner announcement: 31 March 2027
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
–All of the reviewers for Pathogens in 2026 will be automatically included;
–Number of review reports;
–The quality of review reports.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Ruy D. Chacón
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Luís Cardoso
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
Denis Sereno
University Montpellier, France
Award Committee
Prof. Moriya Tsuji
Chairperson
Texas A&M University School of Engineering Medicine
Winner
Maria Kantzanou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Gherman Calin Mircea
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mark F. Wiser
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Hinh Ly
Chairperson
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Winner
Laboratory of Experimental Parasitology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Universidade Vila Velha (UVV), Vila Velha 29102-920, ES, Brazil
Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2406, USA
Maxime Pichon
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers: Poitiers, France, FR
Award Committee
Prof. Lawrence Young
Chairperson
University of Warwick
Winner
Tomasz M. Karpiński
Jianxuan Wu
Gilead Sciences
Guillaume Fiches
Award Committee
Prof. Lawrence Young
Chairperson
University of Warwick
Winner
Leonardo Basco
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Anastasia Diakou
Laboratory of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Department of Infectious, Parasitic Diseases and Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Erika I. Lutter
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
Award Committee
Prof. Lawrence Young
University of Warwick
Winner
Jan Votypka
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
María Auxiliadora Dea-Ayuela
Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Thomas Bock
Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Winner
Maria A. Pereira
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)
Kuldeep Gupta
School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of North Dakota
Aliyar Fouladkhah
Public Health Microbiology Laboratory, Tennessee State University
