World Society for Virology

World Society for Virology

Founded	May 6, 2017;8 years ago (2017-05-06)
Founder	Ahmed S. Abdel-Moneim
Focus	"To connect virologists worldwide".
Area served	Worldwide
Website	www.ws-virology.org

The World Society for Virology was established in 2017 in order to link different virologists worldwide in an official society with no restriction based on income or physical location. ^[1] The society aims to strengthen research on viruses affecting humans, animals, plants and other organisms. ^[2]

Membership

The society has more than 1,800 members from 96 countries. Membership is open for all scientists, researchers, and postgraduate students involved in virology research. Membership is offered without annual fee. ^[3]

Partner societies

The World Society for Virology is currently a partner^{[ clarification needed ]} of the following virology societies: ^[4]

• African Virologists Network
• American Society of Virology
• Australian Society of Virology
• Brazilian Society for Virology
• Canadian Society of Virology
• Chinese Society for Virology (Division of the Chinese Society for Microbiology)
• Colombian Association for Virology
• Egyptian Society for Virology
• European Society of Virology
• European Society for Clinical Virology
• Finnish Society for Study of Infectious Diseases>
• Indian Virological Society
• Iranian Society for Virology
• Korean Society of Virology
• Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)
• Mexican Virology Networking
• Middle East, Eurasia And Africa Influenza Stakeholders Network
• Societas biochemica, biophysica et microbiologica Fenniae
• Société Marocaine de Virologie
• Spanish Society for Virology
• South African Society for Virology
• Swedish Society for Virology
• The Moroccan Association of Infectious Pathology and Clinical Immunology
• The Argentinian Society for Virology

Scientific organizations

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• The Global Foot-and-Mouth (FMD) Research Alliance (GFRA) ^[5]
• Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance ^[6]

Affiliated journals

Virology , a scientific journal published by Elsevier, is the official journal of the society, ^[7] while Tumour Virus Research , also published by Elsevier, is an affiliated journal.^{[ citation needed ]}

Other organizations

The society exchanged a memorandum of understanding with the International Vaccine Institute on 13 February 2020 to establish collaboration between the two organizations in strengthening virology research, encouraging capacity building for virologists around the world, and promoting the wide availability of safe, effective, and affordable vaccines for people in low- and middle-income countries. ^[8]

Meetings

First Committee Meeting, 25–27 August 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden at the Karolinska University Hospital. ^[9]

First international conference: Tackling global virus epidemics, June 16–18, 2021, which was held virtually. ^[10]

Second international conference WSV2023: One Health, One World, One Virology, June 15–17, 2023, at Rīga Stradiņš University in Riga, Latvia.

Third international conference WSV2025: The Virosphere of Our Cellular World, May 06–08, 2025, at National Institute of Biotechnology Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Affiliated textbooks

The following books were published with support from the society:

• Yadav MP, Singh RK, Malik Y (2020). Emerging and Transboundary Animal Viruses (PDF). Singapore: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN   978-981-15-0402-0.
• Malik YS, Singh RK, Dhama K (2020). Animal-Origin Viral Zoonoses (PDF). Singapore: Springer. pp. 1–378. ISBN   978-981-15-2651-0.

Affiliated articles

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• Thakur N, Das S, Kumar S, Maurya VK, Dhama K, Paweska JT, Abdel-Moneim AS, Jain A, Tripathi AK, Puri B, Saxena KH (2022). "Tracing the origin of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2): A systematic review and narrative synthesis". J. Med. Virol. 96 (6): 2261–2270. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28060 . PMC   9538017 . PMID   35945190. S2CID   251470353.
• Saxena SK, Ansari S, Maurya VK, Kumar S, Paweska JT, Tripathi AT, Abdel-Moneim AS (2022). "Reemerging human monkeypox: a major public-health debacle". J. Med. Virol. 95 (6): 2160–2166. doi:10.1002/jmv.27902. PMID   5652133. S2CID   249276175.
• Saxena SK, Kumar S, Ansari S, Paweska JT, Maurya VK, Tripathi AK, Abdel-Moneim AS (2022). "Transmission dynamics and mutational prevalence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant of Concern". J. Med. Virol. 94 (5): 2160–2166. doi:10.1002/jmv.27611. PMC   9015611 . PMID   35050521.
• Saxena SK, Kumar S, Ansari S, Paweska JT, Maurya VK, Tripathi AK, Abdel-Moneim AS (2022). "Characterization of the novel SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant of Concern and its global perspective". J. Med. Virol. 94 (4): 1738–1744. doi:10.1002/jmv.27524. PMID   34905235. S2CID   245182556.

Presidents

The following persons are or have been president:

• 2017–2020: Ahmed S. Abdel-Moneim (Founding President, Sultan Qaboos University and Beni-Suef University)
• 2020–2022: Anupam Varma (Indian Agricultural Research Institute)
• 2022–2024: Richard Kuhn (Purdue University)
• 2024–2026: Maria Söderlund-Venermo (University of Helsinki)

References

1. Abdel-Moneim AS, Varma A, Pujol FH, Lewis GK, Paweska JT, Romalde JL, Soderlund-Venermo M, Moore MD, Nevels MM, Vakharia VN, Joshi V, Malik YS, Shi Z, Memish ZA (19 December 2017). "Launching a Global Network of Virologists: The World Society for Virology (WSV)". Intervirology . 60 (6): 276–277. doi: 10.1159/000488762 . hdl: 10023/17827 . PMID   29874676. S2CID   46958172.
2. "Who We Are". World Society for Virology. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
3. "Types of Membership".
4. "Partners". Homepage. World Society for Virology. 9 December 2023.
5. "Global Foot-and-Mouth (F M D) Research Alliance (G F R A)". www.ars.usda.gov.
6. "Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance: Fighting African Swine Fever Together". www.ars.usda.gov.
7. "News". Virology | ScienceDirect.com. Elsevier.
8. "World Virology Society Archives".
9. Abdel-Moneim AS, Moore MD, Naguib MM, Romalde JL, Söderlund-Venermo M (2020). "WSV 2019: The First Committee Meeting of the World Society for Virology". Virologica Sinica . 35 (2): 248–252. doi:10.1007/s12250-019-00189-y. PMC   7091360 . PMID   31858457.
10. Söderlund-Venermo M, Varma A, Guo D, Gladue DP, Poole E, Pujol FH, Pappu H, Romalde JL, Kramer LD, Baz M, Venter M, Moore MD, Nevels MM, Ezzikouri S, Vakharia VN, Wilson WC, Malik YS, Shi Z, Abdel-Moneim AS (2022). "World Society for Virology First International Conference WSV2021: Tackling Global Virus Epidemics". Virology . 566 (2): 114–121. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2021.11.009. PMC   8646940 . PMID   34902730.

External links

• Official website