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Cupric Oxide Coating That Rapidly Reduces Infection by SARS-CoV-2 via Solids
Leo Poon, Co-Director at HKU-Pasteur, and Alex Chin, Alex Chin, investigator in Professor Poon’s team, just published the new...
Feb 10, 2021


Investigation of the antibody landscape in children: SARS-CoV-2 infected children have lower levels
of antibodies than adults Children are less clinically affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection than adults with the majority of cases being mild...
Jan 26, 2021


SARS-CoV-2 Infection Elicits Robust Neutralizing Antibody Titres In Most Individuals
Prof Leo Poon and Prof Malik Peiris published in Nature Communications the results of their study on neutralizing antibody titres in...
Jan 12, 2021


Follow-up: Project On Sewage Helps Uncover Nine Infections In Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong sewage surveillance project involving HKU-Pasteur research teams will extend its screening capacity after...
Jan 12, 2021


SARS-COV-2: Multidisciplinary Project On Sewage Helps Safeguarding Public Health In Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong's multidisciplinary team conducting a research for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in sewage has led to improvements in...
Dec 30, 2020


C&E News 2020 Review To Celebrate Chris Mok’s Paper
In its review largely dominated by SARS-CoV-2 publications, C&E News has selected Chris Mok's paper about antibody CR3022 and SARS-CoV-2...
Dec 29, 2020


4-Year Research Goup Within The IPIN Call For Application 2020
The Institut Pasteur 2020 call for application for 4-year Research groups is now open ! To encourage the development of ambitious...
Dec 3, 2020


Evaluation of a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralization test for detection of antibody
in human, canine, cat and hamster sera In a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology of the American Society for...
Nov 12, 2020


COVID-19: Persons Without A Robust Neutralizing Antibody Response Might Be At Risk
For SARS-COV-2 Reinfection Asmaa Hachim and Niloufar Kavian from Sophie Valkenburg's team have published in Emerging Infectious Diseases...
Nov 2, 2020


02 Nov 2020T-cell Responses To MERS Coronavirus Infection In People With Occupational Exposure
To Dromedary Camels In Nigeria: An Observational Cohort Study Chris Mok published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases an observational...
Nov 2, 2020


[Press Release] HKU-Pasteur Discovered That ORF8 And ORF3b Are Major Targets Of SARS-CoV-2 Humoral I
Of SARS-CoV-2 Humoral Immune Response Press Release HKUMed researchers discovered that ORF8 and ORF3b are major targets of SARS-CoV-2...
Aug 18, 2020
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Systems Biology Approach To Determine Host Immune Responses To COVID-19
Chris Mok and his team keep their relentless efforts in understanding the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 and human immune response in this...
Aug 17, 2020


Lessons Learned From The SARS Pandemic, A Review On The Topic
By Prof. Malik Peiris And Prof. Leo Poon In a new publication, Prof. Malik Peiris, HKU School of Public Health and former co-director the...
Aug 3, 2020


Institut Pasteur Transverse Research Programs: HKU-Pasteur To Work On
The Relationship Between Stem Cells And Infectious Diseases Flu is a contagious infectious disease caused by the influenza virus....
Jul 31, 2020


COVID-19: Even Mild Cases Develop A Robust, Neutralizing Antibody Response
Chris Mok and his team worked on the development of the immune response in COVID-19 patients in collaboration with Dr Jincun Zhao from...
Jul 29, 2020


Chris Mok’s Collaborative Project With Institut Pasteur Tunis Selected
By The Institut Pasteur International Covid-19 Task Force Since January 2020, the Institut Pasteur Covid-19 Task Force and the Institut...
Jul 21, 2020


New Groundbreaking Findings With A Coating That Can Kill SARS-CoV-2
The breakthrough study, recently published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, has been conducted by Dr Alex Chin, investigator in...
Jul 20, 2020


Living Close To Natural Green Space Benefits Gut Bacteria Of Urban, Formula-fed Infants
This is the first study showing that formula-fed babies’ gut microbiome is comparable to gut microbiome of breastfed babies living near...
Jul 8, 2020


COVar_Immune: HKU-Pasteur to work with James Di Santo and Darragh Duffy at the Institut Pasteur
on mucosal immunity during SARSCoV-2 infection and recovery In the framework of the COVID-19 Task Force set by Institut Pasteur,...
Jun 9, 2020


Chris Mok’s Work On Cross-Reactive Antibody Response Between SARS-CoV-2 And SARS-CoV Infections
Published In Cell Reports And featured On EurekAlert! EurekAlert!, operated by AAAS, has featured a publication from Chris Mok's team on...
May 19, 2020


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