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Irvin S. Y. Chen

Irvin S. Y. Chen is a virologist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA, former Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute, who helped identify HTLV-II and develops gene therapy against HIV.

J. Barklie Clements

J. Barklie Clements (John Barklie Clements, 1946–2005) was a Northern Irish virologist at the University of Glasgow known for his work on herpes simplex virus transcription.

Jacob V. Maizel

Jacob V. Maizel, also cited as J.V. Maizel, is an American virologist known for work on poliovirus protein synthesis and RNA-folding algorithms at the National Cancer Institute.

Jan Carette

Jan E. Carette is a virologist and geneticist who is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford, known for using haploid and CRISPR screens to find host genes viruses need.

Jan Münch

Jan Münch is a German virologist, professor of molecular virology at Ulm University Medical Center, known for discovering in 2007 that semen amyloid fibrils enhance HIV infection.

Jeremy A. Bruenn

Jeremy A. Bruenn is an American molecular virologist and Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, known for research on the double-stranded RNA viruses of yeast.

Jeremy Luban

Jeremy Luban is an American physician-scientist and virologist at UMass Chan Medical School who studies how human cells interact with HIV-1, Ebola virus, and SARS-CoV-2.

Ji‐Won Yoon

Ji-Won Yoon is a molecular diabetologist who showed viruses can trigger diabetes in animals and led the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre at the University of Calgary.

John J. Holland

John J. Holland was an American virologist at UC San Diego known for founding the experimental study of RNA virus evolution and the virus quasispecies concept.

John P. Moore

John P. Moore is a virologist who has been Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2000, known for HIV-1 entry inhibitors and the SOSIP.664 vaccine trimer.

Jonathan Abraham

Jonathan Abraham is an American virologist and physician-scientist, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School and an HHMI Investigator since 2024, who studies how viruses infect cells.

Karin Moelling

Karin Moelling (born 1943) is a German virologist who directed the Institute of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich and is known for work on retroviral oncogenes, RNase H, and HIV.

Karla A. Kirkegaard

Karla A. Kirkegaard (born 1954) is a virologist who studies positive-strand RNA viruses, known for establishing the copy-choice mechanism of RNA virus recombination in poliovirus.

Kuan‐Teh Jeang

Kuan-Teh Jeang, known as K T Jeang, was a Taiwanese-born molecular virologist who spent his career at the NIH studying HIV-1 and HTLV-1 and founded the journal Retrovirology in 2004.

Leor S. Weinberger

Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and systems biologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco, known for the HIV latency circuit and single-dose TIP antivirals.

Malcolm A. Martin

Malcolm A. Martin is an American virologist who has led NIAID's Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology since 1981, known for HIV molecular clones and the SHIV macaque model.

Marc Alizon

Marc Alizon (born 1957) is a French virologist at the Institut Pasteur who helped produce the first nucleotide sequence of the AIDS virus, later named HIV-1, in 1985.

Mariano A. García-Blanco

Mariano A. García-Blanco is an RNA biologist and virologist who chairs microbiology at the University of Virginia and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Mario Stevenson

Mario Stevenson is a Scottish molecular virologist who studies HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy and directs the Institute of AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami.

Mark Marsh

Mark Marsh, born 1953, is a cell biologist and virologist, Emeritus Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London.

Mary K. Estes

Mary K. Estes is an American virologist and Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies the gastrointestinal viruses rotavirus and human norovirus.

Maxine L. Linial

Maxine L. Linial is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, known for her work on retroviral RNA packaging and foamy viruses.

Mélanie Ott

Mélanie Ott is a German-born virologist who directs the Gladstone Institute of Virology, is a professor of medicine at UCSF, and studies HIV, hepatitis C, and SARS-CoV-2.

Michael Emerman

Michael Emerman is a virologist whose laboratory at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle made fundamental discoveries about how HIV interacts with the cells it infects.

Michael Farzan

Michael Farzan is a virologist and immunologist at Boston Children's Hospital who identified ACE2 as the SARS coronavirus receptor and developed the HIV entry inhibitor eCD4-Ig.

Michael H. Malim

Michael H. Malim is a British virologist and Professor of Infectious Diseases at King's College London, known for work on HIV-1 Rev RNA export and APOBEC3G.

Michaela Ulrike Gack

Michaela Ulrike Gack, who publishes as Michaela U. Gack, is a German-born virologist and innate immunologist who leads the Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center in Port St. Lucie.

Milton J. Schlesinger

Milton J. Schlesinger was an American molecular biologist and virologist, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis whose 1979 work led to the discovery of protein S-palmitoylation.

Morgane Rolland

Morgane Rolland is a virologist and viral geneticist who studies HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, known for developing sieve analysis and leading viral genomics at the US Military HIV Research Program.

Nathaniel R. Landau

Nathaniel R. Landau, known as Ned Landau, is an American virologist and professor of microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine whose lab identified CCR5 as HIV's coreceptor.