Countries Primarily Using CoronaVac Vaccines Should Consider mRNA Vaccine Boosters to face Omicron
Malik Peiris signed with Leo Poon a new publication in Nature Medicine suggesting that countries primarily using CoronaVac vaccines...
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- 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...
- Dec 8, 2021
Probable Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in Quarantine Hotel, Hong Kong, Nov-21
Leo Poon reports in Emerging Infectious Diseases the detection of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) in an asymptomatic, fully...
- Dec 8, 2021
Electron Microscope Image of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant
Prof Malik Peiris, Managing Director at C2i and Prof John Nicholls from the Department of Pathology at HKU have released an electron...
- Oct 13, 2021
A Push for Real Normal: Mass Screening for COVID-19
Leo Poon provided an editorial on mass screening strategies fo COVID-19 for Clinical Chemistry. In this publication, Professor Leo Poon,...
- Oct 13, 2021
Reduction of Infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 by Zinc Oxide Coatings
Professor Leo Poon, Principal Investigator at C2i and Co-Director of HKU-Pasteur, published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering...
- Sep 23, 2021
Air Travel-Related Outbreak of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Professor Malik Peiris and Professor Leo Poon signed a paper in the Journal of Travel Medicine with HKU-Pasteur's team about a large...
- Sep 13, 2021
Congratulations Professor Peiris!
We are very proud to share that Professor Malik Peiris won the Future Science Prize in life sciences alongside Professor Yuen Kwok-yung...
- Jul 30, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Specific T Cell Responses Are Lower In Children And Increase With Age And Time
Sophie Valkenburg, Principal Investigator at HKU-Pasteur, and her team sign a major publication in Nature Communications, with Malik...
- Jul 19, 2021
New Study Compares Antibody Level in BioNTech and Sinovac Vaccine Recipients
Cosigned by Malik Peiris in the Lancet Microbe, the study has found that recipients of the BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine have 10 times more...
- Jul 13, 2021
Leo Poon To Coordinate Major UGC Funded TRS 2021/2022 Project
The University Grant Council has announced the results of the Theme-based Research Scheme 2021/22 funding approval on 13 July with eight...
- Jun 15, 2021
COVA Study: Great Progress in the Samples Collection
More than 50% of targeted samples have been collected from healthy adolescents aged 11 years or above recruited with their parents in the...
- May 12, 2021
Role of Epithelial-Endothelial Cell Interaction in the Pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Dr Michael Chan and Dr. Kenrie Hui just published for Oxford University Press in Clinical Infectious Diseases about the role of...
- May 11, 2021
First Participants Vaccinated In HKU Trial To Test COVID-19 Vaccines In Healthy Adolescents
Press Release Investigators of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of...
- Apr 19, 2021
Simeprevir Potently Suppresses SARS-CoV‑2 Replication and Synergizes with Remdesivir
Michael Chan and his team published a major paper about the usage of simeprevir for treating COVID-19 in ACS Central Science. The team...
- Feb 18, 2021
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Praised HKU-Pasteur’s Work During Lunar New Year Visit
Chief Executive Carrie Lam visited the School of Public Health campus and the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole during the Lunar New Year...
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