Dr. Kathryn Edwards “Of all the things you call me I am most appreciative and most honored to be called a pediatrician because the children are our future” Dr. Edwards, on her career, 2026 – …

Not all Problems are Pandemics: West Nile Virus By Molly Cavanaugh, September 2026 West Nile virus is an RNA virus spread by mosquitoes (1). It is a flavivirus, which puts it in the same virus fami…

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...

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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 …

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...

Dyslexia- Disability and Advantage in Science By Molly Cavanaugh When I was first diagnosed the tester said it would take me a minimum of 5 years to graduate college, if I could graduate at all. Th…

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...