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Animal Virus Infections Studies

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Florian Kabinger
Tissue Dynamics (Israel)
2
Sonia Ndeupen
University of Pennsylvania
3
Laura Vangeel
Rega Institute for Medical Research
4
Piyada Supasa
University of Oxford
5
Fatima Amanat
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
6
Ninaad Lasrado
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
7
Melissa P. Lokugamage
Georgia Institute of Technology
8
Bo Meng
University of Cambridge
9
Cherrelle Dacon
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
10
Nico Joël Halwe
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

Papers

1
H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b dynamics in experimentally infected calves and cows
Nature|2024
168 cit.
2
SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.5 mRNA booster vaccination elicits limited mucosal immunity
Science Translational Medicine|2024
43 cit.
3
Waning immunity and IgG4 responses following bivalent mRNA boosting
Science Advances|2024
39 cit.
4
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariant BA.2.87.1
Vaccine|2024
21 cit.
5
Bat-borne H9N2 influenza virus evades MxA restriction and exhibits efficient replication and transmission in ferrets
Nature Communications|2024
20 cit.
6
Protective antibodies target cryptic epitope unmasked by cleavage of malaria sporozoite protein
Science|2025
18 cit.
7
An intramuscular prime and mucosal boost vaccine regimen protects against lethal clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 challenge in cynomolgus macaques
Science Translational Medicine|2025
9 cit.
8
Structural basis of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase inhibition by nonnucleoside inhibitor HeE1-2Tyr
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2025
6 cit.
9
Hypoxia drives HIF2-dependent reversible macrophage cell cycle entry
Cell Reports|2024
5 cit.
10
Immunogenicity of JN.1 and KP.2 COVID-19 mRNA vaccines against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants
Vaccine|2025
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Yu-Ling Zhang
Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center
2
Davide Corti
Vir Biotechnology (Switzerland)
3
Damien C. Tully
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
4
Carl A. B. Pearson
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
5
Alex Washburne
Sandia National Laboratories
6
Christopher I Jarvis
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
7
James D Munday
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
8
Renhong Yan
Southern University of Science and Technology
9
Jinlong Zhang
Soochow University
10
Ali H. Ellebedy
Washington University in St. Louis

Papers

1
Germinal centre-driven maturation of B cell response to mRNA vaccination
Nature|2022
366 cit.
2
Changes in social contacts in England during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021 as measured by the CoMix survey: A repeated cross-sectional study
PLoS Medicine|2022
175 cit.
3
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron boosting induces de novo B cell response in humans
Nature|2023
160 cit.
4
Social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 European countries – evidence from a two-year study
BMC Infectious Diseases|2023
63 cit.
5
Variant-adapted COVID-19 booster vaccines
Science|2023
43 cit.
6
Social contact patterns following the COVID-19 pandemic: a snapshot of post-pandemic behaviour from the CoMix study
Epidemics|2024
34 cit.
7
Maturation of germinal center B cells after influenza virus vaccination in humans
The Journal of Experimental Medicine|2024
31 cit.
8
Structural basis for the assembly of the DNA polymerase holoenzyme from a monkeypox virus variant
Science Advances|2023
25 cit.
9
Structural insight into the assembly and working mechanism of helicase-primase D5 from Mpox virus
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology|2024
16 cit.
10
Evaluating the use of social contact data to produce age-specific short-term forecasts of SARS-CoV-2 incidence in England
PLoS Computational Biology|2023
14 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Zheng‐Li Shi
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2
Kwok‐Yung Yuen
University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital
3
David Veesler
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4
Wenjie Tan
Sinopec (China)
5
Ralph S. Baric
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6
Weifeng Shi
Shanghai Maritime University
7
John Ziebuhr
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
8
Michael Houghton
University of Alberta
9
Michael Farzan
Broad Institute
10
Hyeryun Choe
Boston Children's Hospital

Papers

1
A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
New England Journal of Medicine|2020
30.4k cit.
2
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
Nature|2020
23.3k cit.
3
Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding
The Lancet|2020
12.6k cit.
4
Structure, Function, and Antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein
Cell|2020
9.1k cit.
5
The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2
Nature Microbiology|2020
7.7k cit.
6
Isolation of a cDNA cLone Derived from a Blood-Borne Non-A, Non-B Viral Hepatitis Genome
Science|1989
6.9k cit.
7
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus
Nature|2003
6.3k cit.
8
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens
JAMA|2020
5.3k cit.
9
An Assay for Circulating Antibodies to a Major Etiologic Virus of Human Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis
Science|1989
3.4k cit.
10
Genomic characterization of the 2019 novel human-pathogenic coronavirus isolated from a patient with atypical pneumonia after visiting Wuhan
Emerging Microbes & Infections|2020
3.3k cit.

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