Dr. Lawrence Banks was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for WSV2025: “A great meeting catering for scientists in the Global South.” The World Society for Virology (WSV) is a non-profit, inclusive, and globally active scientific society founded in 2017 to connect virologists worldwide.
The WSV fosters global scientific collaboration in virology across human, animal, plant, and environmental health domains and supports One Health initiatives through multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral partnerships. WSV2025 was sponsored by ICGEB, as will WSV2027, to be held in Morocco. ICGEB is further exploring collaboration with the Society.
WSV has established partnerships with 21 virology societies and organizations across global regions including: the Indian Virological Society, the Chinese and Korean Society for Virology, Egyptian, Iranian, South African societies, African Virologists Network, SMaV, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, and European Societies for Virology, Colombian, Mexican, Brazilian, and Canadian Societies, the American Society for Virology, the Australian Virology Society, and the International: International Vaccine Institute.
The official journal of the Society is Virology (Elsevier), and Tumor Virus Research (Elsevier) is an Affiliated Journal.
