Antiviral Research, at its 30th anniversary, remembrances from its Editor-in-Chief.

摘要

The Journal Antiviral Research was conceived and born in 1980, and launched in 1981. We thus celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Journal, which, as I will further elaborate upon in this Editorial of the Antivirals Congress at the occasion of "30 years of Antiviral Research", started at a time very few antiviral drugs were around. These were idoxuridine, trifluridine, ribavirin, amantadine, and vidarabine, but, with the discovery of new antiviral agents (to become antiviral drugs later on) such as acyclovir and bromovinyl-deoxyuridine, and the cloning of both human interferon-alpha and -beta, "spring was in the air", and under the impulse of Huub Schellekens we, Alfons Billiau and I, took on a new initiative, which at the time, may have looked as both daring and adventurous, and perhaps risky as well, as we did not have any previous experience in editing a Journal, and success was not guaranteed.