| Gaya K Amarasinghe | Washington University School of Medicine |
| Christopher F Basler | Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University |
| Sina Bavari | United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases |
| Elodie Ghedin | Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University |
| Gary P Kobinger | Immunology and Infectious Diseases Universite Laval |
| Benhur Lee | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Benhur Lee | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Elke Mühlberger | Boston University School of Medicine |
| Janusz T Paweska | Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service |
| Martin Schwemmle | Institute for Virology, Medical Center, University of Freiburg |
| John H Werren | University of Rochester |
| Jens H Kuhn | Division of Clinical Research (DCR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) |