Chair of the award committee:

• Inna Lysnyansky (Kimron Veterinary Institute, Beit Dagan, Israel)

Members of the award committee:

• Amir Hadjinoormohammadi (Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia)

• Tsuyoshi Kenri (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokio, Japan)

• Roger Dumke (Institute of Medical Microbiology and Virology, Dresden, Germany)

• Laure Beven (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France)

• Birgit Henrich (University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)

• Amit Yadav (National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India)

• Aizhen Guo (Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China)

• Jose Perez-Casal (International Vaccine Centre, Saskatoon, Canada)

• Sanjay Vashee (The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, USA)

• Wei Wei (United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, USA)