Meeting report: The 3(rd) international conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV 2025) - The Virosphere of Our Cellular World.

01 Mar 2026
Söderlund-Venermo M, Johari NAB, Muhamad A, Yusoff K, Abdelwahab SF, Moore MD, Wilson WC, Venter M, Malik YS, Saxena SK, Abdelwhab EM, Winter S, Fielding BC, Vakharia VN, Varma A, Kuhn RJ, Abdel-Moneim AS
The 3rd International Conference of the World Society for Virology (WSV 2025) was held in May 6-8, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. WSV2025 adopted the integrative theme "The Virosphere of Our Cellular World." This theme denotes the universal and intricate relationships between viruses and their cellular hosts across all domains of life. The conference attracted 291 participants from 27 countries, featuring a scientific program of 83 talks and numerous poster presentations spanning human, animal, plant, insect, and bacterial viruses at basic, clinical and applied levels. This report summarizes the program highlights, key scientific discussions, and significant outcomes of the conference, confirming the WSV's role as a unifying platform for the global virology community since its founding in 2017.