Editorial Board for section 'Vaccines against 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

Prof. Dr. Edwin Asturias
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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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Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Memorial University, St John’s, NL A1E 5X1, Canada
Interests: structural elucidation of bacterial antigens; synthetic neoglycoconjugate vaccines; organic synthesis; glycomics; lipidomics; proteomica; lignomics; metabolomics and analytical chemistry

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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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Departments of Behavioral & Social Sciences and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Brown University, Rhode Island, RI 02912, USA
Interests: HIV; STI; social determinants; health equity; social epidemiology; PrEP; ART; adherence
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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Influenza Virus Group - UR0892, Department of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Research Center of Jouy-en-Josas, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Jouy-en-Josas, France
Interests: vaccines; molecular biology; influenza A virus; virus; protein function; nanoparticles; protein assembly
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Department of Translational Medicine and Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: inflammation; sepsis; microbiota; immunology
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Inserm, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, 06108 Nice, France
Interests: vaccines; infectious diseases; mucosal immunology; immunogenicity; correlates; enteric infections; respiratory infections; genital infections
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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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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ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, Ploufragan-Plouzane-Niort Laboratory, Viral Genetics and Biosafety Unit, 22440 Ploufragan, France
Interests: porcine; chicken and fish vaccinology; identification of novel vaccine antigens; reverse vaccinology; antibody repertoire; DNA vaccination; mucosal vaccination
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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
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
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
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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1. Graduate School of Health Science Studies, Kibi International University, Takahashi 716-8508, Japan
2. Graduate School of Public Health, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, Shizuoka 420-0881, Japan
3. Emeritus Professor, Division of Disaster-Related Infectious Diseases, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Interests: dengue; malaria; leptospirosis; HIV; tuberculosis; inflammation; galectins; osteopontin
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Interests: herpes simplex virus; antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC); pediatric vaccines; transplant patients and vaccines; cytomegalovirus; COVID-19
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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
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Interests: tuberculosis immunity; animal models; vaccines

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Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA
Interests: Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetics; mycobacteriophages; persistence-the capacity of M. tuberculosis to resist sterilization, vaccines for Tuberculosis, Influenza, Herpes, and Dengue
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Department of Virology Cancer, University of Turku, 20520 Turku, Finland
Interests: influenza; influenza vaccines; flaviviruses; Ebola virus; innate immunity; viral interferon antagonists; adaptive immunity; recombinant viral proteins; microarray for viral antibodies; pandemic influenza vaccines and narcolepsy

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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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Research Group in Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
Interests: interactions of herpesviruses infections with autoimmune/inflammatory mediated neurological diseases
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Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Interests: bacterial pathogenicity; vaccines; infectious diseases; inflammation; immune response
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Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa, IA 52242, USA
Interests: viral lung diseases; lung pathology; immunohistochemistry; tissue scoring and morphometry

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Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Interests: vaccine responses; infectious diseases; inflammatory lung diseases
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Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: virus-like particles; vaccines; infectious diseases; immunology; antibody; allergy; cancer immunotherapy and immunology
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Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Interests: vaccines; saccharides; conjugates; bacteria; infectious diseases
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