Dr. Michael Emerman “You align priorities to favor the trainees (so) that what is good for the trainees will end up being good for the lab” Emerman on successful mentoring, Virology Unm…

We talk with Dr. Mark Painter, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, PA, who studies the role of T cells following respiratory virus infection or vaccina...

Dr. Louise Chow “Of course it is obvious it is splicing – it’s cut and paste – just like film editing” Dr. Chow on discovering RNA splicing, on Virology Unmasked, 2026 Dr. Chow in 1977 …

Dr. Robert Gallo “This time I went to the boss and told him, I don’t think I am made for a career here, I don’t think I’m good enough… My boss said ‘Get your ass back in the…

How far can the Hantavirus Outbreak Go? By Molly Cavanaugh, May 2026, corrected April 1st, 2026 the MV Hondius cruise ship departed from Argentina.  What followed seemed like the start of a ho…

Dr. Stanley Plotkin “Rubella followed me to the United States… it was, to say the least, an experience in misery and concern” Plotkin on treating rubella, Virology Unmasked, 2026 …

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We talk with Dr. Mario Feldman, Professor of Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO who studies the pathogenesis of Acinetobacter and the biogenesis of bacterial ext...

We talk with Dr. Daniel Hoft, Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology and the Center for Vaccine Development at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis...

We talk with Dr. Michela Locci, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA who studies how T follicular helper cells promote ...

We talk with Dr. Namit Chaudhary, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Immunology & Microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute, CA, who develops new technologies to generate a safe a...

We talk with Dr. Zhouming Liu, an assistant professor of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who studies mechanisms of La Cross virus entry and monoclonal antibody–...

We talk with Dr. Annie Elong Ngono, a research instructor in the Center for Vaccine Innovation at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, CA, who studies the role of T cells in vaccine-mediated protect...

We talk with Dr. Anass Abbad, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, NY who studies humoral immune responses and virus-host receptor inter...

We talk with Dr. Sandhya Bangaru, a staff scientist in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, CA who uses advances in cryo-EM to understa...

Herpes 3D Image: Image Credit: Kateryna Kon Herpes is common- shame about it shouldn’t be By Sheridan D. George, October 15th, 2025 Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections are among the most common g…

New territory comes with new cultures – how my experiences in Europe compare with America by Dr. Samuel Osanyinlusi – November 15th, 2025 Photo of Dr. Samuel Osanyinlusi Over the last e…

We talk with Dr. Florian Krammer, the endowed Mount Sinai Professor of Vaccinology at the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science Communicatio...

We talk with Dr. John Gridley, a postdoctoral fellow in the Vaccinology Training Program at Emory University, GA, who uses a hepatitis C virus-related rodent hepacivirus model to identify correlates o...

We talk with Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean and Professor of the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, who uses population based sciences to promote health locally and globally.

We talk with Dr. Hedda Wardemann, Division Head of B Cell Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center and Professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany, w...

Molly Cavanaugh, September 2025 From the time of my birth in 2000 to when I turned 18, I received 55 different shots to prevent 16 different diseases.  Diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Haem…

We talk with Dr. Emanuele Andreano, Head of Serology and Immunology at Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, Italy, who combines immunology, structural biology and artificial intelligence to rapidly devel...

By Molly Cavanaugh, September 2025 Viruses have existed for billions of years, far before humans, or even animals, walked the earth (1). While science has just started to uncover the secrets of vir…

We talk with Dr. Daniel Wrapp, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University School of Medicine, NC, who uses structure-based design to develop novel t...

We talk with Dr. Paeton Wantuch, a Staff Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who uses animal models to understand correlates of protection for va...

We talk with Chinonye Dim, a graduate student at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, who characterizes more accessible animal models to develop new vaccines and therapeutics against flaviviruses.

We talk with Hatoon Baazim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, who studies the role of systemic and cellular metabolism in virus infection.

We talk with with Charlotte Nyblade, a DVM/PhD student at the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, who used gnotobiotic pig models to study vaccine-mediated immunity and p...

We talk with Stephanie Goya , a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, who uses genomic approaches to understand and predict the evolution of respiratory viruses such as...

We talk with Roberto Alers-Velazquez, a postdoc at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, who studies how subclinical herpes simplex virus infections can impair memory and behavior.

We talk with Abdullahi Jamiu, a graduate student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA, who studies how encephalitic alphaviruses modulate cellular transcription...

We talk with Dr. Alexander Cohen, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, CA, who uses immune focusing approaches to desig...

We talk with Dr. Hanover Matz, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, MO, who uses human vaccine studies as well as comparisons to oth...