Current Opinion in Virology is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of virology. It will consist of 6 issues per year covering the following 11 sections, each of which is reviewed once a year:

• Emerging viruses: interspecies transmission 
• Viral immunology 
• Viral pathogenesis 
• Preventive and therapeutic vaccines 
• Antiviral strategies 
• Virus structure and expression 
• Animal models for viral diseases 
• Engineering for viral resistance 
• Viruses and cancer 
• Virus vector interactions 

There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. 

Editors-in-Chief
Mary Estes
Houston, Texas, USA
Albert Osterhaus
Hannover, Germany
Marion Koopmans
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Editorial Board
Rafi Ahmed
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Martin Beer
Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany
Ben Berkhout, Dr.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christine Biron
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Juan Carlos de la Torre
La Jolla, California, USA
Rosa Maria del Angel
Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico
Hildegund Ertl
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jane Flint
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Guangping Gao
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
New York, New York, USA
Diane Griffin
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Yi Guan
Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Luca Guidotti
Milan, Italy
Eddie Holmes
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Esper Kallas
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Madison, WI, USA and Tokyo, Japan
Hans-Dieter Klenk
Marburg, Germany
Hans-Georg Kräusslich
Heidelberg, Germany
Robert Lamb
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Susana Lopez
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Shan Lu
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Masao Matsuoka
Kyoto, Japan
Malik Peiris
Hong Kong
Vincent Racaniello
New York, New York, USA
Felix Rey
Paris cedex 15, France
Marilyn Roossinck
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Rozanne Sandri-Goldin
Irvine, California, USA
Peter Sarnow
Stanford, California, USA
Mark Schleiss
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Connie Schmaljohn
Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA
Yiming Shao
Beijing, China
Anne Simon
Maryland, Maryland, USA
James Smiley
Edmonton, Canada
Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Leuven, Belgium
Scott Weaver
Galveston, Texas, USA
Lindsay Whitton
La Jolla, California, USA