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Only WSV members are eligible to participate in voting.
Information about Candidate WSV Officers
President- Elect
Director, Center for Emerging arbo and Respiratory virus research, Professor, Infectious disease and oncology research institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Chair of the WHO Scientific advisory group on the origins of novel pathogens, South Africa
Chair and Professor, Key Lab of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College, Dean of Shanghai Medical College, Vice Chancellor of Fudan University, Chairman, Virology Branch, Chinese Society for Microbiology, China
Vice - President - North America
— No Election – ONLY Single Eligible Candidate–
Senior Scientist – Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service – USDA
Samuel H. Smith Distinguished Professor & Carl F. & James J. Chuey Endowed Chair Department of Plant Pathology & Graduate Program in Molecular Plant Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
Assistant professor at Université Laval, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair and Sentinel North Research Chair
Vice President- Latin America
Principal Researcher at the Laboratory of Virology at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR, Northwest Biological Research Center) in Hermosillo, Sonora, México.
Professor, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia.
A group leader in the Laboratory of Virus-Cell Interactions at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, Uruguay
Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Vice President-Asia
Professor of Biochemistry & Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad, India
Professor, international board of Microbiology (WAMS), and Chairman World Academy of Medical Sciences, National council of India.
Assistant Deputy Minister for Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, EMRO, WHO consultant, IVI board of trustee, Father of mass gatherings medicine, Professor and Senior ID consultant and Director research and innovation center King Saud Medical City, Professor at the College of Medicine in Alfaisal University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Vice President-Europe
Junior group leader “Membrane Dynamics & Viruses” (MDV),IRIM – Research Institute in Infectiology of Montpellier, France
Adjunct Professor, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland, the representative of Finland at the European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV)
The Head of the Plant Virus Department and Chief Plant Virologist at the Leibniz Institute-DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures.
Vice President-Australia/New Zealand
Group Leader – Diagnostics and Mammalian Infectious Disease Research at CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Australia
Vice President-Africa
— No Election – The Current Vice President Africa will continue in the board since she has assigned since one year only.
A professor and head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory at Pasteur Institute, Morocco
Professor of Virology, Dean Faculty of Natural Science, University the Western Cape, Dean-Elect Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Research Director, Head of Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Virology Unit, Pasteur Institute, Morocco
Treasurer - Elect - USA
Instructor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Associate Professor in the department of Cancer Biology and Genetics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine
Treasurer -Elect - Europe
— No Election – ONLY Single Eligible Candidate–
Lecturer in Virology, University of Essex, UK
Secretary Elect
Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology, Hacettepe University, Turkey.
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya
Professor, Dean, College of Biotechnology, GADVASU Ludhiana, Punjab, Former- ICAR National Fellow, IVRI Izatnagar Bareilly, Chairman of Picobirnavirus Family Group, World Health Organization
Head of Training and Career Developing Committee
The two persons who will get higher votes, one will be the head and the other will be deputy.
Associate Professor at Colorado State University, USA
Head of Avian Influenza Virus Laboratory, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany
Centre of Infectious Animal Diseases, Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague
Head of Virology-serology section, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (USAMD-AFRIMS), Bangkok. Thailand
Head of Membership Review Committee
The two persons who will get higher votes, one will be the head and the other will be deputy
Head of the Lab. Biología de Virus, IVIC, Caracas. Venezuela – Coordinator of Venezuela and Latin America Sectors of the World Society of Virology
Assistant professor, School of Bio-Sciences and Technology-SBST, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Vice Dean, Professor & Head at Centre for Advance Research (CFAR), King George\’s Medical University, Lucknow, India
Researcher Microbiologist at the USDA, ARS, Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, Manhattan, USA