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Jul 17

C2i at the I&T Awards 2024 Reception

The Centre for Immunology & Infection is honoured to be received by the Innovation and Technology Commission at the I&T Awards 2024...

Jun 19

C2i and ANU Join Forces in Vaccine Development and Biotechnology

The Centre for Immunology & Infection Limited (C2i) and the Andong National University (ANU), Republic of Korea, have signed a memorandum...

Apr 26

C2i’s Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Respiratory Diseases Garner Top Honours at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

Professor Michael Chan, Professor Kenrie Hui, Dr Rachel Ching and Dr Angel Ma from the Centre for Immunology & Infection received...

Nov 27, 2023

C2i & Hitachi To Collaborate On Automation Of Organoid Cell Culture & Mass Production of Exosomes

Memoranda of Understanding Signing On Cooperation in Automation of 2D & 3D Organoids Cell Culture & Joint Research for Large Production...

Nov 17, 2023

HKUMed, Cambridge and International Vaccine Institute unite to launch HKJC Global Health Institute

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the University of Cambridge (UCAM), and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) signed a Memorandum...

Sep 27, 2023

1,000 Participants: A New Milestone Reached For HHGP-Hong Kong

We are thrilled to announce that we have achieved a significant milestone of the Healthy Human Global Project - Hong Kong with the...

Sep 22, 2023

Think Business, Think Hong Kong

What an honor to be in Paris alongside amazing Hong Kong businesses and institutions! Many thanks to HKSTP for inviting us to join their...

Sep 6, 2023

Congratulations to Leo Poon, New Chair Professor of Public Health Virology!

Professor Leo Poon, Managing Director of C2i, has been conferred the title of Professor, Chair of Public Health Virology by the...

Aug 29, 2023

[Press Release] SARS-CoV-2: How The History Of Human Populations Influences Their Immune Response

C2i’s Professor Malik Peiris, Professor Roberto Bruzzone and Doctor Darragh Duffy together with teams from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS...

Feb 7, 2023

C2i & HKUMed Investigate Vaccine Effectiveness Against Omicron Infection

The study reveals three or fourth doses of the Comirnaty or CoronaVac vaccines remain effective in preventing Omicron infection. Press...

Jan 30, 2023

The Pasteur Network LP200 Prize awarded to Leo Poon

C2i's Managing Director and HKU-Pasteur's Co-Director Professor Leo Poon was awarded the Pasteur Network LP200 Prize, a special prize in...

Jan 26, 2023

RTHK: C2i Investigating Individual Immune Responses

C2i and its Managing Director Professor Leo Poon were featured in the latest episode of the programme "I&T New Era II (創科新里程 II)”. The...

Jan 9, 2023

[Exhibition] From Louis to Pasteur, 1822-1895 in Science Park

Celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, C2i and the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole are presenting an Institut Pasteur...

Jun 21, 2022

[Press Release] C2i & HKU lead the way to benchmark immune health

First participants recruited in the Healthy Human Global Project - Hong Kong Partners in the Healthy Human Global Project - Hong Kong...

May 31, 2022

[Podcast] How does the Global South handle COVID-19?

Leo Poon shares about the significance of the connection and collaboration in the early hours of COVID-19 with Vivien Marx (Nature...

May 26, 2022

Hong Kong SAR Government to Launch the InnoHK Initiative

The InnoHK initiative was officially launched during a ceremony officiated by the Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, at the Hong Kong...

May 17, 2022

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant BA.2 Neutralisation in Sera of Vaccinated or Infected People

Malik Peiris and Leo Poon published the result of a joint study with CU Medicine showing that vaccinated individuals develop more robust...

Dec 16, 2021

Omicron variant can multiply 70 times faster than other strains in lower respiratory tracts of hosts

South China Morning Post reports Michael Chan and team findings and warns the overall threat could be ‘very significant’, although there...

Dec 14, 2021

Malik Peiris finds Omicron significantly reduces virus neutralisation ability of BioNTech vaccine

A recent study jointly conducted by the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) and the Faculty of Medicine, The...

Dec 8, 2021

Development of the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within hours

Leo Poon and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (HKU) developed the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus...

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