In 2016, Virologica Sinica will be 30 years old! The editorial staff presents herein the milestones and great achievements of the journal in the previous decades, hoping that their publication efforts will make more contributions for the world virology community. The first issue of Virologica Sinica was published in 1986. In 2007, the Chinese journal was transformed to a fully English publicati...
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and Institut Pasteur of Shanghai (IPS) signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement in Wuhan on March 17, 2016. Mr. Hong Tang, the Director General, Mr. Fernando ARENZANA-SEISDEDOS, the Co-Director, Mr. Si Shengli, the CPC Secretary and Mr. Ke Lan, the Deputy Director of IPS, Mr. Philippe Maurin, the Attaché for Science and Technology of French General Consulate i...
Recently, WIV has joined Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework. It is believed that this participation will push the current international cooperation level of WIV to a new high under the global context.Pandemic influenza is a rare, unpredictable occurrence. To prepare vaccines, efficient and comprehensive sharing of relevant viruses is essential to carry out the analyses needed to de...
Recently, Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has officially joined the European Virus Archive goes global (EVAg) project, a part of the European Horizon 2020 Research Project, after signing the consortium agreement. In 2009, the European Virus Archive (EVA) project started. It is a project funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The over...
