Leo Poon Awarded Silver at the Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days
He developed with the Department of Mechanical Engineering (HKU) the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within...
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Mar 15, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is more stable than the ancestral strain on various surfaces
New study by Malik Peiris and Leo Poon with the School of Public Health finds that BA.1 SARS-CoV-2 variant is more stable than its...
Mar 15, 2022
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant from pet hamsters to humans
Leading to onward human-to-human transmission: a case study Malik Peiris and Leo Poon just published a report in the Lancet showing that...
Feb 18, 2022
A New Inflammatory Activation Pathway in Blood Vessels After SARS-CoV-2 Infection
A great collaborative work from Leo Poon's team with CUHK Medicine. Summary: To date, the direct causative mechanism of...
Feb 18, 2022
Development of a Transparent Anti-SARS-CoV-2 and Antibacterial Silver Oxide Coatings
Leo Poon's team with the Centre for Immunology & Infection and collaborators from Virginia Tech have developed a transparent...
Feb 16, 2022
Institut Pasteur Publications about SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19
The Institut Pasteur’s list of scientific publications on SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and Covid-19 disease.
Feb 14, 2022
Gut microbiota composition is associated with SARS-CoV-2 vaccine immunogenicity and adverse events
Hein Min Tun and his team have identified specific gut microbiota markers in association with improved immune response and reduced...
Feb 9, 2022
Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 under an elimination strategy in Hong Kong
Our latest work with the Centre for Immunology & Infection is published Nature Communications. The study, led by Vijay Dhanasekaran and...
Jan 27, 2022
Surveillance of Rodent Pests for SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses in Hong Kong
HKU-Pasteur reports with the Centre for Immunology & Infection and the School of Public Health the surveillance of rodent pests for...
Jan 26, 2022
Countries Primarily Using CoronaVac Vaccines Should Consider mRNA Vaccine Boosters to face Omicron
Leo Poon signed with Malik Peiris a new publication in Nature Medicine suggesting that countries primarily using CoronaVac vaccines...
Jan 26, 2022
How does it feel like to work in a new research environment? - Testimony from Ye Peng, HKUPRP fellow
Learn more about Ye Peng's experience as a research intern at Institut Pasteur in Paris! Ye Peng is year-3 PhD candidate at the...
Jan 19, 2022
“The most important thing I have learnt is working smart”, Testimony from Terence Lee, first alumnus
Terence Lee is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong School of Biomedical Sciences. His current research project focuses on...
Dec 23, 2021
“We are made from DNA. We can create more with DNA”, Simon Shiu, intern at Institut Pasteur in Paris
Simon Shiu is currently completing a research internship at the Institut Pasteur Department of Structural Biology & Chemistry under the...
Dec 16, 2021
[Where Are They Now?] Garrick Yip: “A special place where I could learn about different cultures”
Let's meet Garrick Yip, 2021 MPhil graduate and student of the 15th Virology Course, who is still working very closely with HKU-Pasteur...
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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 9, 2021
Development of the world’s first stainless steel that kills the COVID19 virus within hours
Professor Leo Poon and the Department of Mechanical Engineering (HKU) developed the world’s first stainless steel against SARS-CoV-2. The...
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 7, 2021
Joint CUHK-HKU study discovers efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines correlates with a probiotic bacterium,
Press release The Centre for Gut Microbiota Research of the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) is...
Dec 6, 2021
[Where Are They Now?] Jean Millet: “My ties with HKU-Pasteur continued well beyond graduating”
Today we are catching up with Jean Millet, 2010 PhD graduate at HKU-Pasteur and alumnus of the 2nd edition of the Virology Course, who is...
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Nov 26, 2021
The HKU-Pasteur Team Supports Breast Cancer Survivors
Our fantastic HKU-Pasteur team worked hard during the last few weeks to join the University of Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute of Cancer...
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