Editorial Board for section 'Vaccines against Tropical and other Infectious Diseases'

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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.

Members

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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Interests: malaria; vaccines; immunology; genomics; helminthes and co-infection; malaria transmission; malaria drugs and diagnostics
* Section: Vaccines against (re)emerging and Tropical Infections Diseases
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Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: Japanese encephalitis vaccine; arbovirus infection; virus evolution; seroepidemiological survey; host-virus cophylogeny; zoonotic diseases
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Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80011, USA
Interests: vaccine safety; new vaccine global introductions and epidemiology; dengue and zika infections; pneumococcal disease and prevention

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Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Interests: molecular basis of virulence and antigenic variations between West Nile virus (WNV) strains; arbovirus vaccines and diagnostics; Good Laboratory Practices (GLP); animal models for infectious diseases

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Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Interests: hemorrhagic fever viruses; virus-like particles; innate immunity; viral glycoproteins; molecular virology; bunyaviruses; host-virus interactions; viral pathogenesis; reverse genetics

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Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Interests: vaccination; varicella zoster; immunocompromised patients; transplantation; prophylactic vaccination; aging; humoral immune response; immune suppression; autoimmunity

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Department of Medicine and Surgery, Respiratory Disease and Lung Function Unit, University of Parma, Via Rasori 10, 43126 Parma, Italy
Interests: COVID-19; meta-analysis (also network); asthma; COPD; and leishmania

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Department of Translational Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: clinical and cellular immunology; microbiota and the immune system: crosstalk in health and diseases
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Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Interests: gram-negative bacteria; vaccines; CD28/B-7 immunosynapse; glycobiology; immune response; biodefense
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Department of Biotechnology, Microbiology Section, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Interests: viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines; respiratory viruses; emergent viruses; Toscana virus; innate immunity; adaptive immunity
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Interests: bio-fabrication of microparticulate vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer
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Department of Immunology and Microbiology IMM-6, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla Campus, 10466 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Interests: molecular, cell biology and pathogenesis of mammarenaviruses; virus-host cell interactions; antivirals; live attenuated vaccines
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Depatment of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, NL-3015 CN Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: cellular immunity; humoral immunity; virology; immunology; respiratory tract

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Department of Biomedical sciences, University of Antwerp, 2180 Antwerp, Belgium
Interests: virology; vaccinology; respiratory infections

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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201, USA
Interests: influenza; emerging infectious diseases; preclinical and clinical development of vaccines; pandemic response
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Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Viral Pathogenesis Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: neutralizing antibodies; flaviviruses; vaccine development; virus structure; arboviruses

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National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan
Interests: HSV-1,2; varicella vaccine; coronavirus; emerging viruses; serology

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National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, C/ Darwin, 3, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: vaccines; poxvirus; vaccinia virus; MVA; NYVAC; human infectious diseases; emerging viruses; HIV-1/AIDS; hepatitis C; chikungunya; ebola; zika; recombinant vectors; immune response; antibodies; T cells; protection; animal models; clinical trials

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Host‐Pathogen Interactions Program, Southwest National Primate Research Center, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78227, USA
Interests: vaccines; nonhuman primates; cytokines; lentiviruses; filoviruses; flaviviruses; adjuvants; genome editing

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CSIC - Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB), Madrid, Spain
Interests: vaccine development; preclinical studies; poxvirus vectors; infectious diseases; T cell immunity

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The Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel
Interests: epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of respiratory infections and in particular of community-acquired pneumonia; pneumococcal vaccines and the spread of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in the community; invasive infections including bacteremia and meningitis; viral respiratory infections and their interaction with bacterial infection in community-acquired pneumonia

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Institute of Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Südufer 10, 17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Interests: virus diagnostics; pathogenesis; zoonotic viruses; emerging diseases; flaviviruses; orthonairoviruses; phlenuivirida; hepeviruses; coronaviruses; prions

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Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: adjuvants; non-invasive mucosal/skin delivery; preclinical validation in mice; influenza vaccines; Chagas vaccines; immune profiling in humans

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UK Health Security Agency, London, UK
Interests: SARS-CoV-2; vaccine; meningococcal vaccine; anthrax

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Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, 58185 Linköping, Sweden
Interests: vaccines; DNA and VLP; virology; Infectious diseases; monoclonal antibodies; passive immunotherapy

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Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Interests: vaccine development; adjuvants; dendritic cells; influenza; immunopathology
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Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
Interests: rift valley fever virus; SFTSV; heartland virus; reverse genetics; arthropod borne diseases; vaccines; pathogenesis

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1. Department of Microbiology, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
2. Department of Infectious Diseases and Host Defense, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan
Interests: malaria; malaria vaccine; DNA vaccine; cancer; infectious disease
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1. Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR), Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden University, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
2. Intravacc, Institute for Translational Vaccinology, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Interests: characterization; formulation; delivery; adjuvants; translational research

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Health Behaviours Research, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: vaccination; emerging infectious diseases; interdisciplinary research; health education and promotion; COVID-19; influenza; randomized controlled trial; epidemiology; behavioral science
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