Uppsala University, Sweden
Prof. Åke Lundkvist, Ph.D. is the founder and head of the Zoonosis Science Center (ZSC) at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published >350 scientific original articles/reviews, most of them on emerging viruses. His research focuses on basic virology, immunology, molecular epidemiology, discovery of novel viruses, antivirals and diagnostics of zoonotic viruses. He collaborates with several research groups in Europe, Africa and Asia, and has at present been PI in 10 multilab EC projects.