Travel Award

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Viruses, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Viruses Travel Awards for 2020: Dr. Gary Wang, post-doctoral researcher at the Columbia University Medical Center, USA, and Evangelia-Georgia Kostaki, PhD student at the First Department of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Wang’s research has revealed that Yin Yang 1 (YY1), a member of the GLI-Krüppel class of DNA and RNA binding transcription factors, potently transactivates gene expression from the HTLV-1 LTR by acting via RNA, rather than DNA, binding. Ms Kostaki’s research relates to the molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 infection and its applications to public health.

Each travel award provides 800 Swiss Francs to attend a virology conference in 2020.

Congratulations to the winners of this very competitive travel award.

Editor-in-Chief,
Dr. Eric O. Freed
Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD, USA

Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915) Impact Factor is 3.811 (2018 Journal Citation Reports®).

Please find more information on Viruses at www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses.

The competition for 2021 Viruses Young Investigator Prize, and the Travel Awards will be opened in early June. Please check www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses for more information closer to this date.

 
Viruses 2020 Travel Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Bo Wang
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Selina Pasquero
University of Turin, Italy

Award Committee

Dr. Eric O. Freed Chairman
NCI
Dr. Véronique Ziegler-Graff
CNRS
Dr. Schuyler Van Engelenburg
Prof. Shannon C. Kenney
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Margaret Scull
University of Maryland, College Park
Prof. Jeanmarie Verchot
Texas A&M University - College Station, TX

Winner

Gary Wang
Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Evangelia-Georgia Kostaki
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Award Committee

Dr. Eric O. Freed Chairman
NCI

Winner

Joshua Hatterschide
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA

Winner

Gabrielle Vieyres
Twincore, Hannover, Germany
Nandan Gokhale
Duke University Medical Center, USA

Winner

Gabriel J. Starrett
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MN, USA
Valerie Cortez
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, TN, USA

Winner

Janna Bigalke
post-doctoral researcher at Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
Charles Daniel Murin
PhD student at the Scripps Research Institute, the Kellogg School of Science and Technology, USA
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