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Jun 21

Academic Collaboration With ANU For Vaccine Development

The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole (HKU-PRP), the School of Public Health of The University of Hong Kong and the Andong National University...

Nov 15, 2023

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

The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole is delighted and looking forward to future collaboration with this new major institution to bolster global...

Aug 16, 2023

Malik Peiris Conferred the Degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford

Professor Malik Peiris received from the University of Oxford the honorary degree in recognition of his pivotal role in identifying the...

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 27, 2023

The Pasteur Network LP200 Prize awarded to Leo Poon

HKU-Pasteur's Co-Director Professor Leo Poon was awarded the Pasteur Network LP200 Prize, a special prize in commemoration of the 200th...

Oct 19, 2022

Leo Poon: Giving young talents multiple opportunities of training and new knowledge

Following the Grand Prix France Hong Kong, Professor Leo Poon met with LePetitJournal to discuss HKU-Pasteur Fellowship and research at...

May 31, 2022

How COVID-19 created dramatic changes in a 'winter virus'

Vijay Dhanasekaran published a major study with colleagues from the University of Sydney highlighting the role of the COVID-19 pandemic...

May 31, 2022

[Podcast] Leo Poon on COVID19:"By May 2020 we have sent reagents to over 150 labs in 70 countries"

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

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 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...

May 19, 2017

Malik Peiris joins the distinguished scholars of the US National Academy of Sciences

Malik Peiris, world renown clinical virologist, co-director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, of the WHO-H5 Reference Laboratory at HKU,...