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2025 EMI Best Paper Awards just released!
Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI) just announced the winners of its 2025 Best Paper Awards based on the novelty, scientific significance, and potential impact to the clinical practice and global health in the field of emerging infectious diseases.
First Place Award
Authors: Shubhada K. Chothe, Surabhi Srinivas, Sougat Misra, Noel Chandan Nallipogu, Elizabeth Gilbride, Lindsey LaBella, Swastidipa Mukherjee, Christian H. Gauthier, Heidi L. Pecoraro, Brett T. Webb, James M. Pipas, Santhamani Ramasamy & Suresh V. Kuchipudi
EMI comments: Neurotropism of H5N1 2.3.4.4.b virus was demonstrated in infected domestic cats.
Second Place Award
Authors: Simon Valayer, Marie Alexandre, Mélanie Prague, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Seydou Doumbia, Mark Kieh, Brian Greenwood, Bailah Leigh, Marie Poupelin, Christine Schwimmer, Samba O. Sow, Irina Maljkovic Berry, Jens H. Kuhn, Daniela Fusco, Natasha Dubois Cauwelaert, Deborah Watson-Jones, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Yves Lévy, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Laura Richert, Edouard Lhomme & and the PREVAC study team*
EMI comments: This study explored the longevity of antibody responses after viral vector based Ebola vaccines.
Third Place Award – A
Title: West Nile Virus in a changing climate: epidemiology, pathology, advances in diagnosis and treatment, vaccine designing and control strategies, emerging public health challenges – a comprehensive review
Authors: Parminder Singh, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Suhas Ballal, Mandeep Kaur, Deepak Nathiya, Shilpa Sharma, G. V. Siva Prasad, Aashna Sinha, Abhay M. Gaidhane, Priyanka Mohapatra, Amit Varma, Sorabh Lakhanpal, Muhammed Shabil, Ganesh Bushi, Sanjit Sah & Hashem Abu Serhan
EMI comments: A full review on the impacts of climate change to various aspects of West Nile Virus.
Third Place Award – B
Authors: Jiayun Yang, Mehnaz Qureshi, Reddy Kolli, Thomas P. Peacock, Jean-Remy Sadeyen, Toby Carter, Samuel Richardson, Rebecca Daines, Wendy S. Barclay, Ian H. Brown & Munir Iqbal
EMI comments: Receptor binding and pH-fusion features of HA from bovine-origin H5N1 influenza viruses.
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Best Paper Awards! EMI looks forward to seeing more high-quality research publications in 2026.
For information on all the prize-winning papers from 2019-2024, please view this page.