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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in United States Leader Award
  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • 1989 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Robert G. Webster is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant focus on subfields such as Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, Immunology, and Parasitology.

The scientist's research covers key topics including Influenza Virus Research Studies, Viral Infections and Vectors, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Respiratory Viral Infections Research, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, and Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert G. Webster include:

  • Richard J. Webby
  • Lisa Kercher
  • Scott Krauss
  • John Franks
  • Pamela McKenzie

Regular venues for publication include:

  • Journal of Virology
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Australian Veterinary Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert G. Webster are:

  • "The quail genome: insights into social behaviour, seasonal biology and infectious disease response", 2020, BMC Biology
  • "Influenza A and B viruses with reduced baloxavir susceptibility display attenuated in vitro fitness but retain ferret transmissibility", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Subtype Diversity of Influenza A Virus in North American Waterfowl: a Multidecade Study", 2020, Journal of Virology
  • "Epidemiology and molecular characterization of avian influenza A viruses H5N1 and H3N8 subtypes in poultry farms and live bird markets in Bangladesh", 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "HA stabilization promotes replication and transmission of swine H1N1 gamma influenza viruses in ferrets", 2020, eLife

Robert G. Webster has contributed to book publications, including a title published by UCL Press:

  • "The Inclusion Illusion: How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools", 2022

The scientist has received several recognitions, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998, Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1989, and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses.

    R G Webster;W J Bean;O T Gorman;T M Chambers

  • Universal primer set for the full-length amplification of all influenza A viruses.

    E Hoffmann;J Stech;Y Guan;R G Webster

  • Human influenza A H5N1 virus related to a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus

    Eric C J Claas;Albert D M E Osterhaus;Ruud van Beek;Jan C De Jong

  • A DNA transfection system for generation of influenza A virus from eight plasmids

    Erich Hoffmann;Gabriele Neumann;Yoshihiro Kawaoka;Gerd Hobom

  • Genesis of a highly pathogenic and potentially pandemic H5N1 influenza virus in eastern Asia

    K. S. Li;Y. Guan;Y. Guan;J. Wang;J. Wang;G. J. D. Smith;G. J. D. Smith

  • DNA vaccines: protective immunizations by parenteral, mucosal, and gene-gun inoculations

    Ellen F. Fynan;Robert G. Webster;Deborah H. Fuller;Joel R. Haynes

  • Molecular Basis for the Generation in Pigs of Influenza A Viruses with Pandemic Potential

    Toshihiro Ito;J. Nelson S. S. Couceiro;Sørge Kelm;Linda G. Baum

  • Encyclopedia of virology

    Allan. Granoff;Robert G. Webster

  • Avian-to-human transmission of the PB1 gene of influenza A viruses in the 1957 and 1968 pandemics.

    Y Kawaoka;S Krauss;R G Webster

  • Avian flu: H5N1 virus outbreak in migratory waterfowl

    H. Chen;G. J. D. Smith;G. J. D. Smith;S. Y. Zhang;K. Qin;K. Qin

  • Receptor specificity in human, avian, and equine H2 and H3 influenza virus isolates.

    Robert J. Connor;Yoshihiro Kawaoka;Robert G. Webster;James C. Paulson

  • Molecular characterization of H9N2 influenza viruses: Were they the donors of the “internal” genes of H5N1 viruses in Hong Kong?

    Yi Guan;Kennedy F. Shortridge;Scott Krauss;Robert G. Webster

  • Textbook of Influenza

    Robert G. Webster;Arnold S. Monto;Thomas J. Braciale;Robert A. Lamb.

  • Lethal H5N1 influenza viruses escape host anti-viral cytokine responses.

    Sang Heui Seo;Erich Hoffmann;Robert G. Webster

  • Intestinal influenza: Replication and characterization of influenza viruses in ducks

    R. G. Webster;M. Yakhno;V. S. Hinshaw;W. J. Bean

  • Avian-to-human transmission of H9N2 subtype influenza A viruses: Relationship between H9N2 and H5N1 human isolates

    Y. P. Lin;M. Shaw;V. Gregory;K. Cameron

  • The Surface Glycoproteins of H5 Influenza Viruses Isolated from Humans, Chickens, and Wild Aquatic Birds Have Distinguishable Properties

    Mikhail Matrosovich;Nannan Zhou;Yoshihiro Kawaoka;Robert Webster;Robert Webster

  • ARE WE READY FOR PANDEMIC INFLUENZA

    Richard J. Webby;Robert G. Webster

  • Genetic Reassortment of Avian, Swine, and Human Influenza A Viruses in American Pigs

    Nan Nan Zhou;Dennis A. Senne;John S. Landgraf;Sabrina L. Swenson

  • Establishment of multiple sublineages of H5N1 influenza virus in Asia: Implications for pandemic control

    H. Chen;G. J.D. Smith;G. J.D. Smith;K. S. Li;J. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Webby
Richard J. Webby St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Scott Krauss
Scott Krauss St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Yi Guan
Yi Guan University of Hong Kong
Elena A. Govorkova
Elena A. Govorkova St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Yoshihiro Kawaoka University of Tokyo
Kennedy F. Shortridge
Kennedy F. Shortridge University of Hong Kong
Gavin J. D. Smith
Gavin J. D. Smith Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Gillian M. Air
Gillian M. Air University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
W.G. Laver
W.G. Laver Australian National University
Hui-Ling Yen
Hui-Ling Yen University of Hong Kong

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