The 2026 Early Career Researcher Wiley Prize was won by Daniel Aguilar Figueroa from the Preventive Medicine Department, San Eloy Hospital, Barakaldo-Sestao Health Integrated Organization, Barakaldo, Spain.
The winner was announced on the first morning of the Options for the Control of Influenza meeting, held in Washington, DC, just a few weeks ago.
Daniel won the prize for his paper entitled “Burden of Severe Disease Associated With Influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and RSV in Spain During the 2024-2025 Winter Season”, which was published in the November 2025 edition of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (see IORV 2025 Nov;19(11):e70190. doi: 10.1111/irv.70190). Daniel was the first author, along with his co-authors Gloria Pérez-Gimeno, Olivier Núñez, Susana Monge and the SiVIRA Surveillance and Vaccine Effectiveness Working Group.
Congratulations Daniel!
He wins US$1,000, free registration to an upcoming ISRV meeting, a free publication in IORV and 2 years’ free membership of ISRV. Runners-up received 2 years’ free membership of ISRV.
The 2027 Wiley ECR Prize winner will be selected from ECRs whose papers involving studies on RSV were published in IORV in 2026 and were among the most highly accessed, taking into account the quality of their CVs.
