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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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