Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals'

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School of Biology, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Interests: virology; antivirals; innate immunity; virus–host interactions; virus assembly and maturation; viral proteases; human immunodeficiency viruses; human cytomegalovirus; respiratory viruses; emerging and re-emerging viruses
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Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: influenza; antibody responses; original antigenic sin; vaccine effectiveness; viral evolution; HIV persistence
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TransVIHMI (Recherches Translationnelles sur VIH et Maladies Infectieuses), Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, INSERM, 34394 Montpellier, France
Interests: immune responses to viral infections; serology; immunoglobulin repertoires

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RIA, Immunology, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
Interests: virus-like particles; vaccines; therapeutic vaccines; vaccines for companion animals; immune responses; memory
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Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Interests: filoviruses; antiviral and vaccine development; pathogenesis; molecular virology; virus–host interactions
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Genomic Medicine Department, GENYO Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, Health Sciences Technology Park, Av. de la Illustration 114, 18016 Granada, Spain
Interests: gene editing applied to the field of gene and cell therapy; gene therapy of primary immunodeficiency and cancer; gene editing tools optimization; CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing for cancer immunotherapy

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Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, 41346 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: neurotropic viruses; glycovirology; antivirals

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Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Interests: HIV pharmacology; HIV therapy; HCV therapy; drug-drug interactions of antiviral agents; COVID pharmacology and therapy; COVID epidemiology

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Children's Mercy Kansas City, UMKC School of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Interests: pediatric genomic immunology; host controls of antibody responses; infectious disease therapeutic development; B cell repertoire; HIV-1 vaccine
Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, St James’ Campus, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin D08 W9RT, Ireland
Interests: poxviruses; coronaviruses; innate immunity; immune evasion; autoImmunity
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Interests: viral immunology; virus-vectored vaccines; oncolytic viruses
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National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Interests: picornaviruses; antiviral innate immunity; virus–host interaction
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Foreign Animal Research Unit, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, ARS, NEA, USDA, Greenport, NY 11944, USA
Interests: foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV); vaccine development; interferon; virus host interactions; innate immunity

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Laboratory of Pathogenesis of Viral Infections, Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: viral infections; innate immunity; viral restriction factors; inflammation; antiviral drug discovery; post-translational modifications; viral genome variability; viral effects on metabolism
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Centro Retrovirus, Dept Translational Research, University of Pisa, Via del Brennero 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Interests: antiviral drugs; T cell immunity to viruses; neutralizing antibodies; innate immunity; virus–host interactions; respiratory viruses

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Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Des Moines, IA 50311, USA
Interests: herpes viruses; cytomegalovirus; antivirals; polymerase inhibitors; prodrug activation and accumulation; terminase inhibitors

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Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, I-50134 Florence, Italy
Interests: polyomaviruses studies; influenza viruses studies; emerging viruses; antivirals
Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece
Interests: medicinal chemistry; antiviral agents; anticancer agents; trypanocidal agents; anti-HBV drugs; anti-HCV drugs; anti-influenza A agents; anti-flavivirus agents
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Instituto Biofisika (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Bizkaia, Spain
Interests: developement of a VLP-based platform for rational design of human vaccines; capsid stucture of picornaviruses and genome release; molecular Dynamic methods applied to understand structure-function relationship in proteins of the GPCR family and in non-enveloped viral capsids
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Interests: molecular virology; influenza virus; viral pathogenesis; virus–host interactions; innate antiviral response; post-translational protein modifications; protein trafficking; acetylation; HDACs; HATs
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Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7028 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: antiviral agents; broad-spectrum antivirals; antiviral response; innate immunity; adaptive immunity
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Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
Interests: herpesviruses; virus–host interactions; pathogenesis; innate immunity; intercellular communications; autophagy; transcription; protein trafficking; viral envelopment; antiviral targets
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Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)/Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Interests: the change of free binding energy of ligands upon point mutations in the virus protein; evolution of binding interfaces in interactions between viral-viral and viral-host proteins; modelling the emergence of resistance towards anti-viral drugs; modelling specificity of virus-host interactions; evolution of the viral proteome; development of resistance towards antiviral drugs
Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
Interests: host cell entry and infectious particle assembly of hepatitis B & C viruses; virus evolution, antiviral resistance and fitness change; antiviral drug development against emerging infectious diseases

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Microbiology and Immunology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: innate immune system; pathogenesis of severe viral infections; therapeutics
Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Pharmacy, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
Interests: infection and immunity; obesity and viral infection; antiviral drug development; coxsackievirus B3; human rhinovirus; enterovirus; influenza virus

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: influenza viruses; viral vaccines; adaptive immunity to viruses
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Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: molecular microbiology; food-borne zoonoses; antimicrobial resistance; microbiome; resistome
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1. College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2. Junglock Biomedical Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Interests: immunopathogenesis and etiological substances; early use of immune modulators (corticosteroids and other drugs) in viral infections
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Interests: molecular virology; viral entry; antivirals; viral oncolytics
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