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 Dr. Brian W.J. Mahy
Dr. Mahy is Senior Scientific Adviser in the Office of the Director, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Emory University. He moved to the USA in 1989 to become Director of the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases in NCID, a post which he held until 2000. Before going to CDC, from 1983 to 1989 he was Director of the Animal Virus Research Institute in Surrey, UK, which houses the World Reference Laboratory for Foot and Mouth Disease. From 1965 until 1983 he worked in the Department of Pathology at Cambridge University, UK, where he established the strong influenza and paramyxovirus research program and became Head of the Division of Virology. He was awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Fellowship and spent a year working in San Francisco with J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus. His postdoctoral work was carried out at the London Hospital Medical College where he worked on lactate dehydrogenase-elevating virus. He holds MA and ScD degrees from the University of Cambridge, and BSc, PhD, and DSc (honoris causa) degrees from the University of Southampton, UK. Dr. Mahy is the Past-President of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. His many awards include the David Henderson Medal (CAMR, UK) and the Charles C. Shepard Science award (CDC). He has written or edited more than 20 books, the most recent of which, the tenth edition of Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections was published in September 2005. He has also authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is currently an Editor of three scientific journals: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Medical Virology, Reviews in Medical Virology, and is Editor in Chief of Virus Research.
 Dr. Marc H.V. van Regenmortel
Dr. Marc van Regenmortel is an Emeritus Director at ESBS/CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) at the Biotechnology School of the University of Strasbourg in France. He was born and educated in Brussels, Belgium and received his PhD degree in 1961 from the Medical School of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. From 1965 to 1966, he was an International Fellow of the US Public Health Service at the Virus Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and subsequently he held positions as Professor of Virology and Microbiology at several Universities in South Africa and France. In 1978, he became Director of the CNRS Immunochemistry Laboratory at the Molecular Biology Institute in Strasbourg, a position he held for 22 years. He served from 1984 to 1990 as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) and was Secretary General of IUMS for nine years. From 1996 to 2002, he was President of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Dr. Van Regenmortel has published 15 books and over 380 papers and reviews in virology, viral taxonomy, immunochemistry of proteins and peptides and biosensor technology. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Virology and Journal of Molecular Recognition and an Executive Editor of Analytical Biochemistry. He also serves on the editorial boards of Advances in Virus Research, Journal of Immunological Methods, Methods & Expert Review of Proteomics. His honors include various honorary lectureships in the US, Italy and Switzerland, an honary doctorate from the University of Liège, Belgium (2003) and the Leon Velluz Price of the French Academy of Sciences (2005).
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