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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


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 14, 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 9, 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


Altered ISGylation drives aberrant macrophage-dependent immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 infection
In this new publication in Nature Immunology, Qiwen Teo (co-first author), HKU-Pasteur PhD student who just graduated, Chris Mok and...
Oct 26, 2021


Reduction of Infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 by Zinc Oxide Coatings
Professor Leo Poon, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Immunology & Infection and Co-Director of HKU-Pasteur, published in ACS...
Oct 13, 2021


A Push for Real Normal: Mass Screening for COVID-19
Professor Leo Poon, Principal Investigator at C2i and Co-Director of HKU-Pasteur provided an editorial on mass screening strategies fo...
Oct 13, 2021


Air Travel-Related Outbreak of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Vijay Dhanasekaran and his team published in the Journal of Travel Medicine with the Centre for Immunology & Infection about a large...
Sep 23, 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...
Aug 12, 2021


SARS-CoV-2 Specific T Cell Responses Are Lower In Children And Increase With Age And Time
Sophie Valkenburg and her team sign a major publication in Nature Communications, with Leo Poon and Malik Peiris, to understand the...
Aug 12, 2021


SARS-CoV-2 Specific T Cell Responses Are Lower In Children And Increase With Age
And Time After Infection Sophie Valkenburg and her team sign a major publication in Nature Communications, with Leo Poon and Malik...
Jul 30, 2021


Malik Peiris Published a Study Comparing Antibody Level in BioNTech and Sinovac Vaccine Recipients
Published in the Lancet Microbe with Prof Ben Cowling and Prof Gabriel Leung, the study has found that recipients of the BioNTech...
Jul 29, 2021


Malik Peiris Published a Study Comparing Antibody Level in BioNTech and Sinovac Vaccine Recipients
Published in the Lancet Microbe with Prof Ben Cowling and Prof Gabriel Leung, the study has found that recipients of the BioNTech...
Jul 19, 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...
Jul 13, 2021


Impacts of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel-related gut microbiome and resistome ch
and resistome changes Our gut microbes are sensitive to environmental changes and exposures. Travel act as a key setting in which such...
Jun 11, 2021


HKUMed discovers a causal link among food allergies, gut microbiota development in infancy
birth methods and mother’s ethnicity PRESS RELEASE Researchers from HKU-Pasteur Research Pole (HKU-PRP) at the School of Public Health,...
May 28, 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...
May 11, 2021


Coronavirus Seroprevalence Among Villagers Exposed To Bats In Thailand
Hein Min Tun signed with colleagues from the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Re‐emerging Infectious Diseases in Animals of the...
Apr 27, 2021


Understanding the microbial composition of the respiratory tract in hospitalized Covid-19 patients
Hein Min Tun’s team, in collaboration with colleagues from Denmark, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen among others, have studied the...
Apr 20, 2021


Multi-platform omics analysis reveals molecular signature for COVID-19 pathogenesis, prognosis
and drug target discovery Hein Min Tun and colleagues published in Nature's Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy about a...
Apr 19, 2021


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