Ningyi Jin, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Changchun, China

Hua-Lan Chen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Haerbin, China

Wannian Liang, Tsinghua University, Vanke School of Public Health, Beijing, China

Wei Liu, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

Gong Cheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Huaiqi Jing, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Emergency Laboratory of National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Biao Kan, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Emergency Laboratory of National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Liuying Tang, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Shiwen Wang, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Health care associated infection

Yunxi Liu, Department of Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese PLA general hospital, Beijing, China

Vaccine research and development, vaccine effectiveness and immunization strategies for infectious diseases

Zhujun Shao, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Emergency Laboratory of National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

The intersection of immunology and infection

Fang Wang, Jilin University College of Basic Medical Sciences, Changchun, China

Pathogen resource database, Health policies and regulations

Qiang Wei, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Microbiology diagnostics, Bacterial/viral testing

Yongjun Jiao, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

Genomics, Proteomics, Next-generation sequencing, Bioinformatics

Aiping Wu, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, Suzhou, China

Vector borne disease, Veterinary/zoonotic infectious disease

Gong Cheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Clinical science, Infectious disease pathobiology and immunology

Zheng Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Microbial ecology, surveillance and early warning of infectious disease

Biao Kan, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Emergency Laboratory of National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Medical big data and artificial intelligence

Yingjie Tian, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Economics and Management, Haidian, Beijing, China

Meisam Akhlaghdoust, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Neuroscience Research Center, Tehran, Iran

Athanasios Alexiou, Novel Global Community Educational Foundation Department of Science and Engineering, Hebersham, Australia

Adriano Gerardo Arguedas Mohs, Pfizer Inc, New York, New York, United States of America

Abed Zahedi Bialvaei, Iran University of Medical Science, Microbial Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran, Iran

Dawei Cai, Aligos Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Shengbo Cao, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mingmin Chi, School of Computer Science Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Fuqiang Cui, Peking University, School of Public Health, Vaccine Research Center, Department of Global Health, Department of Laboratory Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Jose J. Danguilan, Lung Center of the Philippines, Department of Thoracic Surgery and Anesthesia, Quezon City, Philippines

Shujun Ding, Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shandong, China

Xiangjun Du, School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, China

Marina Eremeeva, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Roman R. Ganta, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Gregory Gray, Duke University, United States of America

Cheong Io Hong, School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jianmin Jiang, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China

Zisis Kozlakidis, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Shayanki Lahiri, University of Michigan Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Liuyi Li, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

Zhonghua Liu, Jiangsu Bioperfectus Technologies Co.,Ltd, Shanghai, China

Pierre-Yves Lozach, Center for Integrative Infectious Disease Research, Heidelberg, Germany

Boglione Lucio, University of Piemonte Orientale, Department of Translational Medicine (DiMET), Vercelli, Italy

Sukanya Narasimhan, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ke Peng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China

Yousong Peng, Hunan University College of Biology, Changsha, China

Aiping Qin, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Jiazhang Qiu, Jilin University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin, China

Ye Shen, University of Georgia Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Vikrant Sudan, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, College of Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Masayuki Saijo, Sapporo City Health and Welfare Bureau, Sapporo, Japan

Yinyan Sun, National Institute of Biological Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China

Christos Tsagkaris, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

David Walker, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Gang Wang, Qilu hospital of Shandong University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Jinan, China

Hongsheng Wang, Affiliated Hospital for Skin Diseases of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Nanjing, China

Penghua Wang, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Tian Wang, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Zhongfang Wang, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China

Hongling Wen, Shandong University Department of Microbiological Laboratory Technology, Jinan, China

Hongyang Xu, Wuxi people’s hospital, Department of critical care medicine, Wuxi, China

Miao Xu, National Institute for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China

Guang Yang, Jinan University, Faculty of Medical Science, Guangzhou, China

Yang Yang, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Qing Ye, Wuhan University Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China

Fuping You, Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xueping Yu, Quanzhou First Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University, Fujian, China

Souheil Zayet, Hospital Nord Franche-Comté, Infectious Diseases Department, Trévenans, France

Leike Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China

Maojun Zhang, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Xuexing Zheng, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China

Haijian Zhou, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Emergency Laboratory of National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Haizhen Zhu, Hunan University, Institute of Pathogen Biology and Immunology of College of Biology, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Virology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Changsha, China