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Clinical Conference Journal Article Ahead of print

PubMed: 41530010 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2026.110792

Meeting report: The 3 rd international conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV 2025) - The Virosphere of Our Cellular World.

Virology

Authors: Maria Söderlund-Venermo, Nor Azfa Binti Johari, Azira Muhamad, Khatijah Yusoff, Sayed F Abdelwahab, Matthew D Moore, William C Wilson, Marietjie Venter, Yashpal S Malik, Shailendra K Saxena, Elsayed M Abdelwhab, Stephan Winter, Burtram C Fielding, Vikram N Vakharia, Anupam Varma, Richard J Kuhn, Ahmed S Abdel-Moneim

Affiliations

  • Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Malaysia Genome and Vaccine Institute, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia.
  • Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
  • Foreign Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Manhattan, KS, USA.
  • Infectious Disease and Oncology Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
  • ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.
  • Centre for Advanced Research, Faculty of Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.
  • Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Germany.
  • Leibniz Institute-DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Germany.
  • Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
  • Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Advanced Centre for Plant Virology Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
  • Department of Biological Sciences, and Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology, & Infectious Disease, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
  • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.

Abstract

The 3 rd International Conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV 2025) was held in May 6-8, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. WSV2025 adopted the integrative theme "The Virosphere of Our Cellular World." This theme denotes the universal and intricate relationships between viruses and their cellular hosts across all domains of life. The conference attracted 291 participants from 27 countries, featuring a scientific program of 83 talks and numerous poster presentations spanning human, animal, plant, insect, and bacterial viruses at basic, clinical and applied levels. This report summarizes the program highlights, key scientific discussions, and significant outcomes of the conference, confirming the WSV's role as a unifying platform for the global virology community since its founding in 2017.

MeSH

Virology, Viruses