Bart Rispens Award 2023 for the best paper published in Avian Pathology (volumes 50 and 51).

Following deliberation by the Bart Rispens Research Award Committee, it is our pleasure to announce that the winner of the Bart Rispens Research Award for 2023, representing the best paper published in I Avian Pathology i in the years 2021 and 2022, is B Cameron Ellington b for the paper " B Characterization of Md5-BAC-REV-LTR virus as Marek's disease vaccine in commercial meat type chickens: protection and immunosuppression b " (Ellington I et al. i , [1]). Characterization of Md5-BAC-REV-LTR virus as Marek's disease vaccine in commercial meat-type chickens: protection and immunosuppression. The topic of the 2023 winning paper is especially relevant given Bart Rispens' development of the Marek's disease vaccine strain CVI-988 (or "Rispen(s) vaccine"). [Extracted from the article]